POTUS plea to respectable gun owners to support "common sense" gun laws

[JollyMon]

I don't discuss my current workplace situations on a public forum.

You have in the past and you said you disarm in the morning.... if you weren't afraid of the repercussions.... why disarm

This morning, almost to my desk at work. Was halfway through the building before I realized it.

Receptionist had a laugh when I came back. There's a clear "no firearms" sign on our office.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

You have in the past and you said you disarm in the morning.

In the context of "do I risk carrying/getting fired", I don't discuss those details on a public forum.

My encounter with the receptionist was, I assume in the OC thread, meant for it's jovial nature.

Obviously open-carrying into an office is something 99% of us don't do purposefully.

 

[seedubs1]

I can't disagree with this. I've never sold to someone who looked nuts like that. Then again, I've never had someone that looked nuts show up to purchase anything of mine. Everyone, for the most part, has been pretty respectable.

Well, except one. I did sell something to a mod on here that I had second thoughts about... Pretty shady dude. Can't remember his screen name, though.

What the POTUS and his cronies would call under the table.

To me, seeing that whack job I would never sell him a base ball bat let alone a gun.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

A Texas school district is training teachers to carry firearms in order to protect children.

 

[chipbennett]

That's a choice they made. They, legally, can carry there. I know it's unreasonable, I know it's a bad policy... but they aren't breaking laws, and they come out of it alive.

What law would you be breaking, to carry in your workplace?

Hell, might even get a petition going afterward pressuring the college to not expel them, due to the lives they may have saved. Everyone loves a hero, even if it's all hypothetical.

If I still went to college, I'd absolutely have a gun on me. I'm absolutely willing to assume those risks, because I'm not a bad CC'er.

And yet, you're apparently not willing to assume those risks in the workplace?

We shouldn't make this a black/white issue when it comes down to judgement calls a person has to make for themselves.

I agree, which is why I'm arguing against your minimizing of the risk of repercussion assumed by college students who choose to carry in violation of their schools' anti-firearms policies.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

What law would you be breaking, to carry in your workplace?



And yet, you're apparently not willing to assume those risks in the workplace?



I agree, which is why I'm arguing against your minimizing of the risk of repercussion assumed by college students who choose to carry in violation of their schools' anti-firearms policies.

This isn't about me, and I don't discuss what I do or don't do (in the context you're presenting) regarding my gun and my workplace on a public forum.

 

[chipbennett]

I don't discuss my current workplace situations on a public forum.

Except that you already have, multiple times...

This isn't about me, and I don't discuss what I do or don't do (in the context you're presenting) regarding my gun and my workplace on a public forum.

I'm picking up what you're putting down. No sense in continuing.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Except that you already have, multiple times...

You know exactly what I'm talking about. Open-carrying into an office is not something someone does purposefully, and irrelevant to this discussion in every way.

 

[jamil]

This seems to have devolved into a debate for the sake of debate. INGOsyncratic.

 

[JollyMon]

I think the real point is even though these places we are legally allowed to carry, there are severe repercussions if caught doing so. Enough for us to not even discuss or not even carry (I dont carry in my office cause I like my cozy low work high paying job) at the risk of getting caught. These repercussions exist because the management feels that no guns should be on the property. By making the repercussions so severe (not criminally), they have effectively made it a gun free zone.

Hell I almost crapped my self when my spare magazine fell out of my pocket one time and a coworker saw, even though I wasnt carrying.

 

[chipbennett]

I think the real point is even though these places we are legally allowed to carry, there are severe repercussions if caught doing so. Enough for us to not even discuss or not even carry (I dont carry in my office cause I like my cozy low work high paying job) at the risk of getting caught. These repercussions exist because the management feels that no guns should be on the property. By making the repercussions so severe (not criminally), they have effectively made it a gun free zone.

Hell I almost crapped my self when my spare magazine fell out of my pocket one time and a coworker saw, even though I wasnt carrying.

Yes, that is exactly the point.

 

[actaeon277]

 

[ArcadiaGP]

WaPo: Yes, We Want Your Guns | Dana Loesch Radio

 

[cbhausen]

How about cutting to the chase and calling them "Anti-Second Amendment Zones" or "Infringement Zones"? Those terms better convey the breadth of the 2A and our stronger-than-ever "No More Compromises" stance.

 

[mdmayo]

Most gun owners are conservative politically.

I'd dispute that assumption. Plenty of liberal/progressive type(s) own guns, are enthusiasts, train regularly, and own multiple firearms. From my perspective; If conservatives stood alone in the value(s) of the second amendment, there would have been an amendment banning/restricting guns already in place.

Conservatives alone cannot win this fight. So, no matter whether Johnny Reb or INGO feel about the issue, you're in bed with many liberals on this one. As an aside, I will posit that I believe more conservative are single-issue voters than liberals.

 

[churchmouse]

I can't disagree with this. I've never sold to someone who looked nuts like that. Then again, I've never had someone that looked nuts show up to purchase anything of mine. Everyone, for the most part, has been pretty respectable.

Well, except one. I did sell something to a mod on here that I had second thoughts about... Pretty shady dude. Can't remember his screen name, though.

Yeah....I think i know the guy you are referring to.....heard he is also a renown bully.....

 

[churchmouse]

How about cutting to the chase and calling them "Anti-Second Amendment Zones" or "Infringement Zones"? Those terms better convey the breadth of the 2A and our stronger-than-ever "No More Compromises" stance.

Well, with out a PC mindset the spin would not be effective now would it.....PC will be the end of us all.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I will posit that I believe more conservative are single-issue voters than liberals.

It would appear broad brushes are in the tool boxes of everybody.

 

[cobber]

Did you point out how many LEOs would be needed? And how they'd have to go door to door, cause they don't know where all the gun owners and weapons are. And how weapons would be moved anticipating those searches. And how searches would have to continue for years, on EVERYBODY.

And that LEOs would have to give up their own privately-owned guns as well?

In any event, I don't think that the FBI plays these search/seizure games. Maybe the Stasi, erm, DHS?

 

[seedubs1]

Correct. Not only hard right wingers are in support of the second amendment. I'm one of the non-hard R's, but I find myself a bit to the right side of the isle more often than not. I vote based on a lot of issues and no single issue sways my vote. I also don't vote based on party affiliation. I vote based on which candidate falls most in line with my belief on the array of subjects in discussion.

I'd dispute that assumption. Plenty of liberal/progressive type(s) own guns, are enthusiasts, train regularly, and own multiple firearms. From my perspective; If conservatives stood alone in the value(s) of the second amendment, there would have been an amendment banning/restricting guns already in place.

Conservatives alone cannot win this fight. So, no matter whether Johnny Reb or INGO feel about the issue, you're in bed with many liberals on this one. As an aside, I will posit that I believe more conservative are single-issue voters than liberals.