Gah. An unnamed, opinion piece in the St. Petersburg Times get's my blood boiling. But what do you expect from a leftist rag like that?

Onto the fisk

NRA power play stomps on safety

Ahh yes, the whole "The NRA = All Gun Owners" lie. I own several death-toys firearms and am not an NRA member. Strike one.

Who says the Florida Legislature doesn't look out for the working stiff? A bill (SB 2356) that so far is breezing through the Senate would stop employers from banning guns in their parking lots.

Good. It's immoral that a company thinks they can require that their employees to give up constitutional rights.

Imagine the persuasive power of a worker (particularly if he is disgruntled) mentioning that his AK-47 is only a few steps away when asking for - no, demanding! - a raise.

Oh give me a break. Let's define "a few steps away" ok? What stops me from asking for a raise and reminding my boss that "I could easily come to work tomorrow with a gun?" Or, what stops the employer from agreeing to the raise then calling the cops?

Strawman. Strike two.

Actually, there is nothing funny about this bill and a similar one (HB 1417) in the House. It's just another audacious power play by the National Rifle Association to prove it can make the Legislature do almost any stupid thing the bullying gun lobby wants. With hand puppets such as Sen. Durell Peaden, R-Crestview, the bill's sponsor, to do your bidding, it's child's play.

Umm... Well, NRA != Gun Owners but that was covered earlier. However, when a Senator does something you want him to do, he's apparently a public servant. When he does something the majority of his constituents want him to do and you disagree, whip out the "Hand Puppet" charge. Ad Hominem - Strike three. Next player.

The bill would stop "a public or private entity from prohibiting a customer, employee, or invitee from possessing any personal private property that is a legal product when such product is lawfully possessed and locked inside or locked to a private motor vehicle in a parking lot." Where the bill mentions "personal private property" read "firearms," a bill analysis notes.

What I have in my car is my fucking property. It is also none of my employers fucking business. If my boss thinks I'm stealing office supplies, he can call the police and have them get a warrant to search my vehicle for pilfered Post-It notes and dry erase markers. Otherwise, the contents of my car are as off limits to them as to to the homeless guy on the corner.

If I wish to keep a firearm locked in my car, so be it. If I wish to keep a tub of cherry flavored anal lubricant, a large sausage, and a pageworn copy of "Hung - The magazine for the well endowed" I should be able to as well without my employer being able to find out.

A few exceptions are written into the proposed law, including businesses involved in domestic security if a gun in the parking lot "presents an increased danger of explosion." Yet there are more things to fear from guns at the workplace than explosions. Assaults and violent acts cause one in seven workplace fatalities, and the proximity of guns would only increase the risk.

Here we get into the meat of the idiocy. Workplace violence comes from violent people, not the tools they use. I have a Leatherman with a deathly sharp blade in it. You don't see me stabbing my boss over disagreements do you?

Of course, in this crybaby, leftist world, one can never take blame for one's own actions now can we? We have to blame the object or others.

The gun would not increase the risk of violence, only the risk of getting shot rather than another method.

So who would be responsible for damages if someone breaks into a car in a company parking lot and uses the gun inside to injure or kill someone? Not the employer or parking lot owner, who is made immune from civil action by the bill. And not the gun owner, who was just exercising his constitutional right to put a dangerous weapon in an easily accessible place.

According to Señior Dickhead here, any gun not placed in a 30 ft. cement bunker with no doors and guarded by half a mile of concertina wire is "an easily accesible place". The last time I checked, I couldn't just open a locked door without breaking in.

This bill tramples on the rights of private-property owners and those seeking workplace safety ...

A private property owner has no right to tell me what I can put inside my own private property. I guess since I don't fantasize about living in a police state where only the government has guns and I must do whatever my betters tell me, it's hard for me to fathom what idiots like this think "safety" means. But the fact that this journalist thinks that the lack of firearms would automatically equal safe workplaces is laughable

 to further inflate the gun lobby's perceived rights.

Ah yes. That pesky Bill of Rights again. I assume this douchebag doesn't think his right to spew filth is just 'perceived'. That would be because it isn't. My right to arm myself is my God given right.

A vote for this bill is a vote for more violence in the workplace, more stolen guns on the street, more bloodshed in the community.

Like clockwork. Every time an anti-gun idiot speaks, they decry that blood will flow knee-deep in the streets and that there will be shootings over the front pew in churches. And every single fucking time, nothing of the sort ever happens. When a lab rat gets shocked once or twice, it learns not to go down that path again. Hence, the rat has a better grasp on reality than this 'journalist'.

We'll soon see which lawmakers have the courage to stand up to the NRA.

How about lawmakers who have the courage to vote for what their constituents want and the constituents who have the courage to vote those who don't out? I seem to remember this is how our system works.

Journalists. Is there anything they can't fuck up?