Gun-free areas like the businesses who are planning to fight this are rarely designated as such because the owners honestly believe that it will prevent shootings, they're there because it theoretically transfers legal responsibility for paying medical bills and punitive damages away from the owner and to the person doing the shooting.
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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.
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If you're out of danger and not an LEO, you have no duty to return and attempt to confront an armed individual, and likely even less of a right to do so. Cut off everything after 3 and you've got the right idea. Carrying a gun is so you have something better than just accepting it if you think you're about to die. The intent of the law is not to let you run to the parking lot, load up, and run back in thinking you're [your favorite action hero's name here]; it's there so that people who wish to be armed in places where they are allowed to be armed can do it without having to worry about being fired for locking a gun in the car and going to work unarmed.
That said, this is an idiotic law. Now, instead of a bunch of people either carrying in violation of company policies or locking a gun in the car in violation of company policy,* there will be large numbers of people who will lock guns in their cars while at work. In one of our most heavily armed states, all criminals in search of guns to steal will have to do is find the places with "no guns" signs and start breaking windows knowing that at least a few cars in any decently-sized lot will have guns in them.
* - I'd place a conservative estimate of the number of people who legally carry, are prohibited from doing so by policies but no law, and carry there anyway because they value personal protection more highly than their jobs, at around 75%