Gainesville Sun Editorial Staff Against Right to Defend Yourself

There is a move in the Florida Legislature (pushed by the NRA) to pass a law requiring employers to allow their employees to keep guns in their cars. The reasoning is that to not allow this unreasonably interferes with the right of the People to keep and bear arms.

The Gainesville Sun is clearly anti-second amendment. "Imagine the media field day when police haul Disney's CEO out of the Magic Kingdom in handcuffs for criminally violating the Second Amendment rights of the guy in the Goofy suit." In context, the Sun editorial staff doesn't think that people should be arrested for violating the Second Amendment.

The Gainesville Sun seems to think that workers being able to keep guns in their cars will contribute to a dangerous work environment -- disgruntled employees will have their weapons only a short walk to the parking lot away. The Sun did not give this much thought before they put it in print. Guess what? A disgruntled employee always has a weapon a short walk to the parking lot away. It's called a car. Cars can be used to ram the side of the building, run over former co-workers, etc. In addition, someone who is sociopathic enough to start killing people at random isn't going to care about rules forbidding them to have a gun in the car.

The Sun needs to grow up and realize that the bad guys don't follow rules. Only the good guys do. Having a rule that puts moral, law-abiding people at a disadvantage is a criminal act, in my opinion, and should not be allowed.