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.

Read the whole story: Orlando Sentinel

Comments

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

Let's get back to the ORIGINAL premise of the Constitution -- to limit the power of the FEDERAL government.

If Mickey says, "no packin heat," you don't have to set foot in Disneyland.

You have a right to life, liberty, and the purfuit (sic) of happiness. That doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with -- or ON -- someone ELSE's property.

[dawp]

This is a state law, the feds have nothing to do with it.

And if Disney wants to ban guns, more power to them for working in the system.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

Oop. Next time, I'll read the arc-tickle foist.

[NHIndependent]

US prisons are filled with people exercising their pursuit of happiness !

[personalpolitical]

Its private property, they can do whatever they want. If I don't want someone to bring a gun into my house I don't have to let them. Period.

[BEHM777]

Disney pays its lawyers good money to find little loopholes like this. Bravo for them. I don't want guns at MY workplace either. I definitely don't want anyone other than peace officers carrying weapons around me or my family ON VACATION.

BEHusseinM777

[dadw5boys]

Ohh I am so scared I need a gun every where I go.

Why do people who carry guns always find trouble?????

[wadenelson1]

It's destiny: Those who live by the sword die by the sword.

Those who seek peace seldom ever need one.

Since gun nuts are invariably fundamentalists, let me ask a question. Instead of putting down his sword should Peter and the rest have fought to the death to keep the soldiers from taking Jesus? Wasn't that a clear case of self-defense?

[CountAight]

Hmm. The enemy of my enemy . . . is both of them??? I'm so confused.

Well, not really. Disney is actually being a good citizen here. When's the last time the NRA did that? They're overreaching here. Guns at Disney, guns at the airport, and new absurdities to insult the intelligence a populace that is well disposed towards reasonable regulation. And that wacky excuse for an Opinion does expressly allow that the 2nd amendment is not an unlimited right, but is subject to reasonable regulation.

[JiminNC]

Man ... I am as big a gun rights guy as anyone but the NRA is asking for trouble here. The biggest problem we have in this country is the "all or nothing" attitude people at both extremes on any issue stake out and cling to. The vast majority of us are stuck in the middle, funding the extremists and never seeing progress toward a better country and a better life. I have no problem with Disney or any other company banning weapons on company property. Shall we next have weapons at bars and in nuclear plant parking lots?

[OlskoolDem]

Ditto,

[dentuso]

Yup yup. What's going to happen is that the NRA is going to push too hard in too many places, and instead of Americans placating what is effectively a new "individual" right - they're going to find that they'll force a complete reversal in the laws. The problem then will become - to everyone who "got a gun" - is how to get them back.