True.tallmike wrote:I dont think it is so much a concern with the employer not allowing it as the law not allowing it in certain places you may have to respond to. Im sure that while you were volunteering you responded once or twice to a school or correctional facility. You cant disarm or you will lose your job, but you cant go in or you will go to jail.anygunanywhere wrote:I understand your frustration and concern.
Breaking the issue down to basics, you want to carry at work and your employer does not allow it. True, you do go to bad places but bad people go to someone's place of employment every day too.
How is your situation different from anyone else's situation where employers forbid carry at work?
If firefighters and EMS need to pack at work then so do everyone else.
BTW I was a volunteer firefighter and paramedic. I was chief of a volunteer EMS agency.
I have been assaulted by patients too.
Anygunanywhere
The only choice left is not to carry at all while you are working. How many of us think thats the best plan?
My point in breaking it down is that lots of us would like to do the same thing - carry at work whether we be white collar office, blue collar skilled labor, firefighters, EMS, really any occupation.
Having to certify as a LEO is a viable alternative for some but not for the vast majority of people.
We all should be allowed to carry anywhere LEO can carry and should be allowed to carry on the job to protect ourselves - within reason. I work in the refining and industrial gas sector and there are necessary rules that would prohibit carry of a firearm.
Anygunanywhere