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Old 04-16-2008, 11:58 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
jewels, do you think that before this law was written, i.e. when employers could ban guns in their parking lots, that there were zero workplace shootings?
Don't you think that a law like this enables more people and gives them a ready excuse?

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Originally Posted by willravel

1) Shooter opens fire in a workplace
2) Get away from shooter
3) Locate a safe exit and use it
4) Run to your car
5) Get in your car and retrieve your gun
6) Run back to the office
7) Locate a safe entrance and use it
8) Locate the shooter
9) Get in a covered or safe position
10) Open fire on the shooter
... oh wait, in all that time the police caught the guy, arrested him, he had his day in court, and he's already been prosecuted and found guilty.
Isn't that making a lot of assumptions? You have your right to bear. I choose not to. I deserve to die because I made this choice?

Besides, what assurance is there that I wouldn't have already been shot?
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Last edited by jewels; 04-16-2008 at 12:02 PM..
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