Disney, NRA Fight Over Allowing Guns At Work

Orlando Sentinel:

Walt Disney World employees won't be packing any heat in the company parking lots anytime soon.

The giant resort has declared that much of its sprawling property is exempt from a new state law that allows Floridians with concealed-weapons permits to keep firearms locked in their cars at work.

Disney, which has 60,000 employees and a long-standing policy against allowing guns on its land, cites an arcane -- and late-added -- loophole in the new law, which took effect Tuesday.

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Comments

[qdog112]

NEWS FLASH! Jesse Helms on his way to He**!

[liberalsrheros]

great f'n thinking leaving guns in cars. i'm sure they'd be properly locked with trigger guards and all ammo removed.

nicely played disney, lol.

[mistlesuede]

Did you take the poll next to the article? There are some really pathetic people in this country. It's amazing how the militant NRA pushes it's way into everything. I am sure they have a website telling people to go this poll and vote because I really don't think Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public would agree with the NRA's insistence that their families and children need safety risks when they spend their hard earned dollars to visit Disney.
What a sad state of affairs this country is in.

[ChiGuy]

The NRA DOES NOT represent even remotely close to a majority of the citizens of this country.
Why do politicians kow-tow to this group of people in need of validation through their firepower??

The NRA and any person that pays membership dues to them, disgust me.

[fcsakes]

NRA? It's hard to believe there are actually that many people with no dicks in America. Maybe Pharma could come up with something just for them, to go along with their viagra and Grecian Formula.

[FZliveson]

Fcsakes: If you could channel your passion and anger into an area where you did some real good for
society...what would that look like. Doing Potty-talk around the issue of self-protection vs societal-protectionism is a delicate subject. If you remember that you are talking AT a lot of people, many of whom are your friends in real life, perhaps you could find a way to be persuasive without implying genital deficiencies and age-related disorders about passionate, mostly wonderful people who differ with you. What would life be like for you and those around you if you lead people in a positive direction? Ponder it as deeply and passionately as you do other things. What is the result for you and for the others?

[FZliveson]

Mimsnpips: More potty-talk around guns. Funny how the critics of firearm ownership so often resort
to dick-sizing and potency talk to try to justify their positions. In truth, about Disneyland....that corporation knows security better than anything I have ever experienced. Literally, if a person litters, there is a security employee on the spot to make a little interrogation. Disney properties may well be places where their brand of security would work.
However most people mistake Mickey Mouse for whom Walt Disney REALLY was.

"Walter Elias Disney, an ardent supporter of right-wing politics, opened Disneyland in 1955 Disneyland. It immediately became a milestone in the exploitation of the human imagination, an environment where people enjoy being manipulated. Visitors to this experimental theme park happily indulged in artificial cheerfulness that was comfortable, reassuring and very well operated. Disney, an early sympathizer of the American Nazi movement and a main figure in McCarthyism's Hollywood witch-hunt, developed a model of experimental psychological totalitarianism where subjects gladly settle for containment in an artificial illusion of power and autonomy."
In essence...the truth is not as important to many Americans as is the perception of what is real.
Walt pioneered much of today's N.L.P. naturally.

[LeonBNJ]

The Disney companies have a full right and indeed an obligation to protect other employees, their guests and the and the potential liability costs from the use of guns on their private properties. Their rule, probably the same as many companies, reduces the risk of guns being stolen from cars and ending up on the streets by criminals as well as a deranged or newly fired employee from going for their gun and shooting their boss or co-workers.
I understand the reasoning for the Florida law, but sometimes one has to make resonable compromises and not infringe on the rights of others.

[SaulGood]

can you explain the reasoning to me, bc i don't get it......and that there is actually a group of people pizzed off at a company who won't allow guns on their private 30,000 acres leaves me completely confuzzled.

[SouthpawSass]

Okay, I'm all for an individual's right to bear/bare arms...
http://bellsouthpwp.net/j/o/jonfoote/dali/other/arms.html

However, there should be no purpose for which that same individual needs to bear/bare arms against Mickie, Minnie, Pluto, Donald (well maybe), Princesses, any other Disney character or any other individual on that property. It should be up to the sole discretion of the property owner(s) whether he/she/they want weapons on their property. Period.

Besides, if it's open to families, advertised as family fun, there should be no tobacco, firearms or alcohol involved.

[mimsnpips]

The NRA is a group of right wing maladjusted children in adult bodies. These guys should call those phone numbers in the classified section that promise 2-3 more inches. Along with a hefty dose of Prozac maybe they could join society.

[ESK]

Time to tell the NRA to go to hell again. What a self serving bunch, pretending that their main motive is to protect 2nd ammendment rights.

[Boringat]

We should confiscate all the guns and make violence aficionados such as the NRA insert the bullets by hand.

[Toonadude]

Anybody know whether the NRA allows concealed / carry for employees at its headquarters in Virginia?

[GQB]

More importantly, has anyone thought of challenging the ban on carrying loaded weapons into the Supreme Court?
Seems fair to me.

[NHIndependent]

Good point ! I bet the NRA doesn't touch that one with a 10 ft pole

[CindyM2008]

Excellent point.

[JAB20]

That's all we need. People packing heat at Disneyland and Disney World. I'd love to take my family there.

[Topfeeder]

Who cares. I pack my guillotine for trips to amusement parks.

[GQB]

Boy, if there ever was an example of a 'radical, extremist, terrorist group', its the NRA.
The SCOTUS idiocy could actually have a good effect... emboldening the NRA and flushing them out of their holes with stupid positions such as this. What better symbol?... "The NRA wants your toddler exposed to stray gunfire at Disneyland."

[BicycleRepairman]

Disney needs that protection. How will their characters protect themselves if those psycho Looney Tunes characters turn up wanting to rumble. Everyone knows how dangerous Elmer Fudd can be with that shotgun of his and Daffy Duck is a disaster waiting to happen. Poor Mickey Mouse has to protect himself. Thank heaven the NRA understands this.