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"Workplace bad enough without a gun around"
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"Zephyrhills City Manager Steve Spina...is dead right on the subject of guns in the workplace...I fully support his recent move to ban them there."

"Gun advocates...are aghast at what they see as a violation of the constitutional right to bear arms."

"Nonsense."

"Suspension of constitutional rights is what working is about."

Email the author of this and other absurd statements: glidewell@sptimes.com

Comment by: aschreib@granitecity.com (10/28/2001)

Let me see if I get this right Mr. Glidewell.

Posting of nude pictures is a protected right under the 1st amendment..even though that amendment does not specifically say so.

Carrying of a firearm is bad and is not given the same protection even though it IS protected specifically under the 2nd amendment?

Have I got it right???

Mr. Glidewell, you sir, are an ass.

Comment by: Rvoss237@cs.com (10/28/2001)

City Manager Spina is wrong. He can't suspend the Constitution. Unarmed people are never safe. Haven't all the school shootings proven that?

Comment by: teepee@iopener.net (10/29/2001)

Riddle me this, Mr. Glidewell: If guns are the cause of so many problems,as your article implies, then wouldn't there be mass shootings at gun shows and firing ranges?
Have you noticed the criminals, that don't give a damn about gun laws anyway,always go for schools, post offices etc, where they know no one else will be armed?
Sorry to overwhelm you with logic.

Comment by: reb68@bellsuth.net (10/29/2001)

This forum does not give me enough room to list the names of those that would or could have been saved if a gun had been present in the workplace. Schools, Stock Trading offices, are just a few. I am not even counting the lives that would have been saved if we had armed pilots before 09/11/01.I think you should pull your head from the sand and remove the blinders. Most anti--anything liberals do not believe in facts or commom sense. I pray they wake up before this REPUBLIC becomes a DICTATORSHIP

Comment by: ddmorris@keepandbeararms.com (10/29/2001)

To the fat, old guy who's trying to look like Santa:

"If your company has a newsletter, it is the employer who owns the press. Therefore freedom of the press applies to the employer and not the employee..." Therefore, you must agree, that the only reason your collumn was printed, was because the owner of the paper agrees with you. And that if you disagreed, your article would not have been printed. Kind of puts a damper on your REALLY being a journalist now doesn't it?

Comment by: ddmorris@keepandbeararms.com (10/29/2001)

To the fat old guy trying to look like Santa:

"... unless you have one of a very few jobs (like mine), you generally agree to interrupt your pursuit of happiness for eight hours or so per day so that you can come up with the financial wherewithal to begin pursuing it again, right around the beginning of happy hour." Since you have ONE OF THOSE JOBS that don't require you to give up all of the freedoms we pions have to give up, I now understand that your idiotice ramblings don't come from your lack of intelligence, but from those happy hours you start earlier than the rest of us.

Comment by: ddmorris@keepandbeararms.com (10/29/2001)

To the fat old guy trying to look like Santa:

"And there are a whole bunch of places you can't take guns... Teachers can't take them to school..." Maybe if they could, the kids of Columbine would still be around. We've tried it your way, and it hasn't worked. You and your kind are unwilling to try anything new. Even if the old fails.

Comment by: samdrewus@yahoo.com (10/29/2001)

The (!@#45^&#!!!) who wrote that article obviously has never EVER read any history

Comment by: scoobie69_us@yahoo.com (10/29/2001)

as i read the comments to this "free press" dribble i cant think of anyhting to add except....would mr. glidwell say the same thing about a law preventing him from enjoying happy hour? oh i forgot they have that its called DUI

Comment by: AA889@aol.com (10/30/2001)

My employer, the USPS, has a rule banning the possession of a firearm or explosives (cartridges) on the property. Several of us park just off the property and walk in the gates to work. Guess what? The criminals have figured this out. Several cars, including mine, were jimmied open on 10/29 and our guns taken. Now a criminal has a Glock w/15 round mag and 16 rounds of Cor-Bond .357 sig. No one at my job feels safer now and the pervailing setiment is to let people on the property as long as the guns stay in the car. Fat chance. What to do? Lose my firearms to criminals, or go defenseless.

Comment by: maherjr@nospam.netdoor.com (10/30/2001)

Reading his statements, it is clear that he "is not of sound mind", therefore and according to the laws of the State of Florida (see previous article), it is illegal for him to possess or attempt to possess (buy) a firearm. NOTE TO FLORIDA GUNSHOP OWNERS: DO SELL THIS MAN A GUN!

Comment by: cityofsandiego2003@yahoo.com (5/12/2003)

I'll admit that I stumbled upon this website while looking to see how others handle "guns in the workplace." I don't own a gun, but don't have any particular opposition to them. I work with people who are adamant about "bearing arms." I've never met anyone who has come to anyone's assistance with their gun. Have any of you? I'd be interested in hearing the stories. I guess I've heard the extreme arguments on both sides and I'm somewhere in the middle. Probably won't ever get a gun unless I want to take it up for sport. So what am I missing? Thanks.