I don’t know about this being a, “Gun rights case being born,” but it does open up a few questions.
Should an employer, if he chooses to make his/her business a gun free zone, be responsible for the safety of all employees?
Not only while at the workplace, but en route to and from it as well. What if I’m on my way home from or to work, while stopped at a red light, and I get carjacked and shot? If my employer had allowed me to carry, it might have ended differently.
Lots of gun owners feel that it’s irresponsible to leave a firearm unattended in their vehicle for fear that it could get stolen. Plus, the business property could ALSO include the parking lot. What then?
With the economy being as horrid as it is, I doubt that anyone wants to become the first test case for this issue.
“Lots of gun owners feel that it’s irresponsible to leave a firearm unattended in their vehicle for fear that it could get stolen. Plus, the business property could ALSO include the parking lot. What then?”
Many times the business property does include the parking lot. What then? You’re screwed. Which is why these laws were passed in the first place. To disarm the populace.
Alabama actually passed a law that, roughly stated, prohibited businesses from prohibiting guns in their parking lots as long as the guns were out of sight and the vehicle was locked. Lots of handwringing about how “blood would run in the streets” and other non-sense.
Sheriffs were against it. Yep. In the supposedly “most Conservative state” the Sheriffs were against my right to keep and bear arms and self defense. Didn’t surprise me at all as I have had a few dealings with local Sheriff depts. over the years.