The above link is an update to this situation. Disney has now gotten in line with state law and allowed employees with CCW permits to keep guns in their cars.

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/apwire/a475a5b4313cfeafed7c1849a88efb96.htm

Good job Disney! You finally caved, realizing you aren’t exempt from state law. It’s about time.

Dominique – So you would deny her the right to self defense based upon your irrational, unsubstantiated fears? Care to produce some statistical evidence that law abiding folks who carry are shooting innocent bystanders?

IF that actually does happen it occurs so often as to be completely insignificant.

One, I don’t really agree with the Disney thing either. Mostly because it’s private property, and they have a right to exclude people from their property who are carrying guns if they want to.

Two, the reason for lifting restrictions on “no carry” zones, which airports are not in most states, except for the secured area, is to make life easier for those of us who carry a defensive firearm regularly. If you have a concealed carry license, the best place to have the gun is on you. Not left in your car or left back home where it’s not going to do you any good, and is out of your direct control.

These are folks that we trust to carry firearms everywhere else in public. In Florida and Georgia, they have passed background checks, and had training on gun safety and the legal aspects of carrying and using a gun in self-defense. There’s no real earthly reason to make carrying a firearm in the non-sterile area of an airport illegal for people who can carry everywhere else. In a free society, especially when it comes to constitutionally enumerated rights, the burden should be on those to justify the restriction, not on those who wish to ease it.

Second the state changed the law and the city of Atlanta wants to ignore the change and arrest people who are not violating any law.

Might I ask why you think it is ok for a city to decide to ignore what the state law tells them to do and arrest people for reasons they think are ok but specifically have no power or authority to arrest you for?

Read the stories. The person that was threatened to be arrested for doing something that a bill he wrote (signed into law) specifically allowed him to do (licensed carry into non-sterile areas of public transportation, ie the airport). If you still don’t understand, read that again, people licensed to carry cannot carry into a place the state says they can because a Mayor that could not stop the law from being passed says so.

Oh, and just so you know, 42 other states allow people to carry into non-sterile areas of their own airports. Georgia was 43. Someone want to point me to all the horror that has been seen in those other state’s airports?

Sorry, folks, but no pro-gun organization has ever taken the stance of arming everyone, and they are not likely to any time in the future.

The fact of the matter is that the police is not required to defend individual civilians – only the society as a whole, as documented in repeated court cases. Thus, your life, your safety, and your self-defense are solely your responsibility, no matter how much of a Big Brother nanny-state you want to live in. And, as a law-abiding citizen, why should I not have the same tools at my disposal to defend my life as the law-abiding citizens working for the police forces around the country?

Honestly, as a pro-gun-rights activist, I disagree with the decision concerning Disney. Disney’s parking lots exist on private property, and thus the government should not be able to tell them what they can do with it (of course, I believe in that mentality far farther than you liberals might… such is life). That said, I see nothing at all wrong with having armed, law-abiding citizens in Georgia’s airports, outside of the secure area. After all, I am still responsible for my own safety and defense in that airport… why strip me of my tools?

Oh, and, seriously, the phallic fallacy is a pathetic argument, and one only resorted to when you have nothing better to bring to the table. It is laughable, to be certain, but not in a way you might like.

And, in closing, speaking of shooters of the fairer sex, do not forget Squeaky!

Funny, I thought they did just that: http://www.nrawinningteam.com/hestexil.html

As to not knowing any women who would want to own guns, you must live a very sheltered life. I know more than a few, among them Tam, Roberta, Breda, and Brigid.

since a normal cop carries 40 to 50 rounds on his belt, you would see a rise in assaults on police officers… theft of a gun and its ammo would net a nice profit for gang bangers… not to mention all the dead cops youd have on your hands…

as for 25 shells for $100… if you were talking about .50bmg, that would be a bargain since they go for about $4.80 a round right now…

but that aside, on most trips to the range, i go through about 300-500 rounds through various guns… your plan would put that out of reach to me and almost every other shooter, thus creating a defacto ban which would soon get struck down by the courts…

and even further aside, you are talking about plans that would only punish law abiding gun owners, not criminals… i have an idea for reducing crime… lets stop letting thugs out of jail… thats something we havent tried in a while, i bet it would work…

My post still stands for the liberal anti-rights folks here. You might want to learn a bit about the founders and the nature of “rights” before you get all giddy about making the 2nd Amendment just disappear. If the SCOTUS had gone the other way in Heller I’d still have the right to keep & bear arms regardless of what 9 guys in robes had to say.

Repealing the 2nd Amendment doesn’t make it go away anymore than repealing the rest of the Bill of Rights would allow the government to kick in my door and rob, beat, imprison and torture me with impunity. The 2nd Amendment is inherent and inalienable just like the rest of the Bill of Rights. Words on ink & parchment don’t “grant” me the right to keep & bear arms, they merely codify a pre-existing right. My rights, all of them, exist independent of the Constitution.