I read Bearing Arms in the Workplace written by an employment law specialist. We have gone back and forth in the comments for a few exchanges and I am posting the latest round here.

I do not believe that Mr. Phillips is anything other than ignorant. I don't believe that he fully understands the issue from the practical side, and while I am not a lawyer, I think some his legal reasoning is faulty. This is exactly the sort of person that the firearms community should be engaging with, as we all have the same goals of personal safety and security - but we differ on the implementation. I am ignorant of the legal liability of allowing employees to be armed, or simply not having a weapons policy. I would like to see some common ground and improvements that will actually keep people safer.

Jed has a post about the Reset Button and while I don't really have a lot in the way of answers I do have some expansion of the question.

First, without organization any sort of reset will be a cascade of individual actions, snowballing into anarchy. Simply look to other countries in the world that are teetering on the edge of 'revolution.' Unless there is some kind of leadership that is compiling a laundry list of grievances against the current government, people act when they feel like they must or when they think they can get away with it.

NRA Smears Obama's Stance on Gun Ownership.

Barack Obama is trying to walk a fine line between protecting the right to bear arms guaranteed under the Second Amendment and clamping down on more than 30,000 deaths from firearms that happen every year in the United States.

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The laws Barack Obama supports that the NRA are vehemently against include sensible acts like:

* Mandatory waiting periods to purchase a gun

* Requiring citizens to actually register their firearms

* Mandatory micro stamping of guns to aid tracing weapons

* Banning inexpensive handguns that make it easier for criminals to acquire

* Limit gun purchases to one gun a month

* Require training for gun owners

* Restrict gun ownership to citizens 21 and older

* Eliminate right to carry concealed weapons

Emergency Lifehacks:Plan Ahead

I am all for people making any level of preparation for emergencies.
This is kind of a brief, novice level kind of disaster kit. The problem is that the thinking is kind of shallow.

As an example CPR is good training if you can get the person to medical attention. The people that are 'saved' by CPR don't jump to their feet and live long happy lives, they are carried by ambulance to the ER. There isn't much value in have a giant first aid kit that you don't know how to use.

It would be better to have a number of first aid kits full of stuff that you can actually operate.

I am sure many of you have seen this on a number of other sites:NRA's slippery slope full of holes

Again we get to the "reasonable controls" and "intelligent compromises" without actually statement of what these phrases mean. The short answer is a new red-tape hassle that doesn't solve the underlying problem, and stands to create new criminals rather than punishing the ones we already have.

Consider a person who has some prohibited weapon, a magazine that is too big, a serial number that is too high, a caliber that is too scary, a grip that is too pistol-like, or some other qualifying feature. Depending on where this person lives this is either a serious crime or a big fat nothing.

Unorganized Militia Propaganda Corps

I don't know why anyone would want to associate themselves with propaganda when the truth is on their side. Propaganda has the connotation of 'lying to win' despite of the quoted definition:

1. The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.
2. Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause: wartime propaganda.

This says nothing about empirical truth, but simply the dissemination of opinion. Propaganda is a lever for ignorance. We have seen it used by the gun-banners because they don't have facts on their side.

Not just gun grabbers, these gun grabbers are lawyers. If you want a look at the future of gun control advocacy this is it. These guys want to nibble around the edges, attacking hunting regs, local ordinances, and the like.

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From all I have read about this it seemed like a bad shoot. Out of all of the options available to the father he made the wrong choice. I agree with his intent to protect his daughters but his methods were poor.

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