7/3: Disney Guard protests gun ban. 7/5: Guard fired.

[clinotus]

This gets even better, on the Abrams report, the state law crafter Representative Mayfield gets into it with a Brady tool on the issue and holds his ground and then some.

Why dont we have Reps like this guy?

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[drgrant]

Disney does NOT have metal detectors, at least as of March of this year. There are no signs posted, either. But if people keep posting stuff on the net about carrying at Disney they will become aware of it (or stop ignoring it). They search bags but not your body...FWIW.

This topic has been on a bunch of gun forums, so if talking about it was a bad thing, that cat is already out of
the bag long ago. They do have a "no weapons" policy, but no metal detectors.... if one carries inside the park, concealment is definitely a good idea.

-Mike

 

[Another_David]

Proof an armed society is a polite society

See bold emphasis

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jul/07/disneyworld.guns

Guardian newspaper

Disney and NRA duel over guns at work

A security guard at Disneyworld challenged the company's position when he showed up with a gun in his vehicle at the weekend

* By John Sterlicchi, US correspondent in Florida
* guardian.co.uk,
* Monday July 7, 2008
* Article history

Disney is in the midst of a major ruckus by exempting itself from a new Florida law that allows employees to bring their guns to the workplace.

Tourists from Britain and elsewhere are constantly warned about Florida's pro-gun laws, which include one that allows people on the street to stand their ground, draw their guns and fire if they feel in anyway threatened.

On July 1 another gun law, the Preservation and Protection of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in Motor Vehicles Act of 2008 came into force after being passed by the Florida legislature following intense pressure from the influential National Rifle Association (NRA).

The Act makes it illegal for businesses across the state to prohibit those employees with concealed weapons permits from keeping their guns locked and loaded in their vehicles during work hours.

So Florida tourists who annoy a store assistant or waiter should be cautious if that person goes outside to "cool off".

The new law does contain a number of exemptions though. One is for companies whose primary business is to manufacture, use, store or transport explosives regulated under federal law. The exemption also includes "property owned or leased by an employer who has obtained a permit" under federal law for such explosives.

Disney has such a permit, for its firework displays held in its theme parks, and its use of fireworks as the basis for an exemption has lit a fuse under the law's authors and the NRA.

"I intended it to exempt places like defence plants, air force bases, things like that. But not Disney. Not at all," Republican senator Durell Peaden, who sponsored the bill in the Senate, told the Orlando Sentinel.

The NRA's public relations department immediately issued an alert accusing Disney of thumbing its nose at the law and adding: "Disney is a prime offender when it comes to firing employees for exercising second amendment rights. There has never been any intention to exempt any part of Disney from the new law."

A security guard at Disneyworld became its first employee to challenge the company's position when he showed up with a gun in his vehicle at the weekend. The employee of 13 years, Edwin Sotomayer, said that while he felt safe at Disney he needed the gun to protect him on his commute to and from work.

"I'm 100% behind the NRA and their legal efforts against Disney. I was suspended on July 4th and I will possibly will lose my job because I wanted to excersise (sic) my 2nd Amendment and wanted to feel safe during my commute," Sotomayer wrote on a blog.

Disney, the Florida Chamber of Commerce, the Florida Retail Federation and other employers kept the law off the books for several years but were defeated this year by pro-gun politicians, who use the second amendment of the constitution, which guarantees the rights of Americans to bear arms, as the basis for their decisions.

Last year it was defeated because it came up for a vote at an inopportune date … just days after a Virginia Tech student shot and killed 32 people and then himself. Workplace shootings are a regular occurrence across the US. In June five people were shot dead in Kentucky and two in another incident in North Carolina.

Florida's employers haven't given up their fight to get the new law off the statute books. A lawsuit has been filed and their hope is that the rights of property owners over what people can and cannot do on their land will outweigh those of gun owners. A decision is expected later this month.


This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Monday July 07 2008. It was last updated at 16:01 on July 07 2008.

* guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2008

 

[Admin]

I hope the socialist Brits are afraid to come to the U.S.

I don't want them liking it, moving here, and trying to make it just like the shit hole they left.

 

[Fsorrent]

Watch out now if someone needs to "cool off" because apparently that means they are off plotting some psychotic mass murdering rampage... It sickens me that this is how some people really think. The logic is absent

 

[C-pher]

Watch out now if someone needs to "cool off" because apparently that means they are off plotting some psychotic mass murdering rampage... It sickens me that this is how some people really think. The logic is absent

+1

I'm not sure when they talk about people cooling off in any other reference, it's going for a "personal time out," or going to the Gym or something.

But as soon as it's in a story refering to firearms, it means that they are going to go and shoot up the whole place.

 

[Pete85]

Watch out now if someone needs to "cool off" because apparently that means they are off plotting some psychotic mass murdering rampage... It sickens me that this is how some people really don't think. The logic is absent

fixed

 

[45collector]

Darn. I was really tickled at the idea of Mickey or Goofey going out to their car and grabbing an AR to go hunt down the 7 dwarves.

 

[drgrant]

It's funny how they cast these aspersions but they can't mention like ONE example. I haven't exactly seen the news teeming with reports of FL citizens shooting british tourists they disagreed with. What a bunch of socialist a**h***s.

-Mike

 

[packingungal]

It's funny how they cast these aspersions but they can't mention like ONE example. I haven't exactly seen the news teeming with reports of FL citizens shooting british tourists they disagreed with. What a bunch of socialist a**h***s.

-Mike

Well, we are always thinkin' about it...

 

[Jose]

I hope the socialist Brits are afraid to come to the U.S.

I don't want them liking it, moving here, and trying to make it just like the shit hole they left.

+1

Europeans (and that includes you subjects of Queen Elizabeth): Stay the hell home if you think we should be more like you. We do not want you here. We do not need you here.

 

[seanc]

You'd think the brits would love this!!1 It is a hell of a lot better than just being stabbed randomly in the streets of Londonistan. Or invaded in your home.
Florida sounds like one HUGE step up to me where the tourist has to actually PROVOKE an attack to be potentially harmed. This should be a huge selling feature for potential tourists!

How is that gun, knife, pointy stick, blunt object ban working for them over there anyway??

 

[frville]

Some of you old timers might remember that back on the Mickey Mouse Club on Fridays, it was "Talent Round Up Day" with Jimmie, Roy and the Mouskateers dressed in western garb which included two revolvers (theatrical dummies or cap pistols) on each hip. I doubt that this "glorification" of firearms would be favorably received by Disney executives today and at least those segments of the old Mickey Mouse Club would be considered obscene by the current crew at Disney for their lack of sensitivity. "Mustn't upset the children, you know." Even Mickey introduced the show in cartoon form with six guns blazing on Fridays...

The Mouse is not your friend fellow gunowners and in Florida Disney can do just about anything it wants law or no law.

Watch those trigger fingers, mickey...