Just saw this. Amazing difference with how guns are treated here in Illinois.



TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Most Florida residents would be allowed to take guns to work under a measure passed by Florida lawmakers on Wednesday.

The bill, allowing workers to keep guns in their cars for self-protection, was approved by the Florida Senate by a vote of 26-13. It now goes to Republican Gov. Charlie Crist to sign into law.

Backed by the National Rifle Association and some labor unions, the so-called "take-your-guns-to-work" measure would prohibit business owners from banning guns kept locked in motor vehicles on their private property.

The measure applies to employees, customers and those invited to the business establishment as long as they have a permit to carry the weapon.

Backers say the measure upholds the vision of the authors of the U.S. Constitution, who made the right to bear arms part of the Bill of Rights.

"The second thing they wrote about in that constitution was the right to bear arms," said Sen. Durell Peaden, a Republican from Crestview, Florida. "It was what was dear in their hearts."

The measure exempts a number of workplaces including nuclear power plants, prisons, schools and companies whose business involves homeland security.

Critics say the measure usurps business owners' rights to determine what happens on their property and puts workers and managers at risk from disgruntled employees.

Dozens of workplace shootings occur every year in the United States and studies have shown that job sites where guns are permitted are more likely to suffer workplace homicides than those where guns are prohibited.

"This is an attempt to trample upon the property rights of property owners and attempt to make it more difficult to protect the workers in a workplace and those who visit our retail establishments," said Sen. Ted Deutch, a Boca Raton Democrat.

Oklahoma, Alaska, Kentucky, and Mississippi have similar laws, although in Oklahoma, an appellate court barred the state from enforcing the legislation on grounds that it was unconstitutional.

Florida business groups are urging the governor to veto the measure, saying owners should be allowed to determine what happens on their property.

"We are disappointed that politics clearly won over good policy," Mark Wilson, president and chief executive of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, said in a statement.

 

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Hmmm, thats kind of a tough one. Im all for the right of the individual to carry and protect themselves but what about the rights of the property owner to not allow firearms on their property? Whose rights are more important?

 

^All the owner has to do is threaten them with their job. Most people don't have the balls/means/resources to file a claim and move forward with it.

 

Nothing wrong with the bill. Pass it. Do the people who oppose it think that their parking lot is going to turn into the OK Corral? You can't find a group of people more responsible than permit holders (bar very few who eventually lose their right).

A similar bill is on the desk of Georgia's governor. Sign it, Sonny!

11Alive.com - More Expansive Gun Bill Passes

With that, I give you this;

https://teamspeed.com/forums/team-sp...p-holders.html

 

shit i take my gun to work everyday for years

 

Good for you, consider yourself lucky. I don't even want my coworkers to know I own even just one gun, I would probably lose my job. Very different climate here.

 

OK BUT YOU OWN YOUR WORK GOOFBALL you can do what you want

 

but i dont undertsand the bill to much, people take their guns to work all the time and leave them in the car so whats the big deal ?

 

What a bunch of perceptual living pansies if they're worried about people carrying their pieces to work in their car. There isn't a good reason to tell anyone that they cannot, use their car, as an extension of their home; which for the time being is a place to legally store firearms.

Hell...
My partner and I've started asking people when we interview them if they are gun friendly... We're literally putting a gun safe in the office. And I've gone so far as getting range memberships for all my developers. They've gone from code geeks, to coding gun geeks, who dump at least a hundred rounds a week. And they're happy at work. Imagine that.