> a business certainly does not have the right to base > it's employment decision on any condition it wants.
Is this (functionally) true? Ignoring discrimination against individuals over things for which they have no control (race, sex, etc.) are business relatively free to discriminate based on behavior? I'm not aware of any overriding principle to the contrary. Though I'm not in favor of keep guns out of employee cars, I believe a business owner (be they individual or an amalgamation) still retain the right of regulating employee behavior as it effects their participation in said employment. You can decline to hire a smoker, or a person with past employment performance issues, or one whose bathing habits are obviously neglected. Is then having a policy against firearms on corporate property (including the parking lot) not an extension of the general right to regulate who your employees are based on perceived behavioral inequities? > and as i have previously written, fails to recognize the right to bear arms > as uniquely fundamental and as such to require strict > scrutiny in the face of any attempt to coerce it's giving way > to another proffered right. But is the right to bear arms being surrendered? I don't think so. If it is part of an employment agreement/contract, then there is a voluntary release of one's right to bring a firearm onto business property. These agreements are exercises of both the right of association, and the right from association (you don't have to work for XYZ Corp.). Our society may have to develop new protocols and services to deal with the situation (such as gun check-in/out lockers just off corporate property). ----------------- Guy Smith Author, Gun Facts www.GunFacts.info [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
