[neverdem]

BANG! You might find this interesting.

[RJL]

Hayden said we’ve all heard stories about violence in the workplace and “that’s why we have policies about guns.”

I guess he's never heard of people hurt or killed because they couldn't defend themselves.

[inquest]

The court had to come to this conclusion. Just imagine the Pandora's box it would open if the entire Bill of Rights became fully enforceable against private property owners. It would mean you couldn't "discriminate" against those whose views you find absolutely repugnant.

[shekkian]

Hayden said we’ve all heard stories about violence in the workplace and “that’s why we have policies about guns.”

How many such policies have actually prevented violence?

[RAY]

I understand that in some localities, your car is considered the same as your home as to having a firearm within. If that is the law in Oklahoma, then why would it change when one enters a parking lot?

The issue should be whether one can remove it from the car while on another's property.

[blackie]

An Armed Citizen, Is A Safe Citizen!

The Second Amendment...
America's Only Homeland Security!

Be Ever Vigilant!

[mountainlyons]

How is a hunter to go hunting after work?

[Rakkasan1]

SC case law has previously said an RV can be considered an abode. maybe they should all drive RV's full of guns to the company lot.

[TChris]

The workers contended, among other things, plant security officers violated their federal constitutional right against unreasonable searches and seizures by telling them they would be fired if they did not permit a search of their vehicles. The former employees also contended the law violated their right under the Oklahoma Constitution to keep guns.

When are people going to learn that the Constitution controls the actions of the government with respect to the citizens, not the actions of an employer with respect to its employees?

[Simo Hayha]

So what happened here? Employees employed by the same firm over a long period of time were threatened with the loss of their jobs if they didn't consent to a search of their vehicle?

Is there any reason those same employees shouldn't have presumed that their contract to work for that company included what had become precedent? If they had come to work every day for the last year or more, and if they had had firearms in their vehicles before, why would they be in the wrong for presuming they couldn't continue to follow that policy?

And then there's the privacy issue. More or less related to the above, and to the presumption that we have a natural right to privacy, why should their jobs be subject to loss simply because a company decided that morning to change what had been the norm?

[nonsporting]

The appellate judges disagreed, quoting the state Constitution: “Nothing herein contained shall prevent the Legislature from regulating the carrying of weapons.”

Idiots. The fired employees were not CARRYING weapons. The weapons were stored in their vehicles.

If a judge can't figure this out, he's a lying liar and needs to be removed now.

[RKBA Democrat]

This is a property rights issue according to the courts. And property rights seem to trump personal liberty in this case.

Interesting how that works. The property rights of the property owner are sacrosanct when the issue is banning guns. Now I wonder if those property rights would be quite as sacrosanct were the local government trying to condemn the real estate in question?

I think we all know the answer.

[RandallFlagg]

I just wonder how many FReepers will condemn this who have been supportive of the firings of workers for being smokers.

Hmmmm.

[DakotaRed]

“Nothing herein contained shall prevent the Legislature from regulating the carrying of weapons.”

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

So, state constitutions now out weight the US Constitution?

[MileHi]

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