I was sitting in a meeting last night when a fellow board member up and opined that we should have a policy prohibiting members from bringing firearms into the building.
The other three of us in the room shut that down right away. I was rather vociferous myself:
- What makes you think a policy like that will keep someone from bringing a gun into the building (short of installing metal detectors and having a guard at the door, neither of which we can afford)?
- How do you know if someone is carrying concealed if they don't actually pull the gun out?
- I'll be damned if I'll come down here on a weekend to do some paperwork and try to walk out of this deserted building with several thou in cash and checks for deposit on my person without a weapon ditto.
- As a matter of fact, I AM trained in the care and use of my weapon, even though I'm not a member of law enforcement or a veteran.
What it turned out to be was a problem that really needed to be dealt with internally by the organization represented by the opiner, using policies that already exist and that all members are aware of. Yes, they have a fool of an organization officer who thinks it's cute to carry a weapon into their meetings and makes no bones about having it on him. Typical idiot who should never have been allowed to have a carry permit in the first place.
It just irks me that the knee-jerk reaction to a jerk who can't keep his gun in his pocket is to propose the violation of everyone else's 2nd Amendment rights.
