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OldCannon wrote:

Jumping Frog wrote:How many nurses getting off shift at "0-dark thirty" do you think have been assaulted, raped, kidnapped, or robbed in hospital parking lots all over the country in the last 10 years? It is a non-trivial and preventable risk.

As a general habit, I like to call out situations where people make a broad statement without apparent supporting evidence. In my case, I was pushing back on the claim "It is a non-trivial and preventable risk" (my emphasis added).

My sister-in-law, a nurse anesthetist robbed in the hospital parking lot after an ER shift, considered her experience non-trivial. So do I.

OldCannon wrote: I understand that I have obligations on when to carry and when NOT to carry. A hospital, in my opinion (and my wife's) is not the place (and she has a CHL too).

Well, I disagree on principle that making virtually anywhere a gun free zone is good policy.

Off the top of my head, only the White House, jails/prisons, and secure mental health hospitals come to mind as reasonable exceptions, and they all have reasonable security procedures in place. Even with those three exceptions, it would simply make sense to have lockable storage at the gate for a visitor to secure their firearm while on premises and available for retrieval upon exit.

As far as hospitals go, it isn't necessarily being in the hospital itself where I would expect risk. It is having a criminal encounter in the parking lot.

How many nurses getting off shift at "0-dark thirty" do you think have been assaulted, raped, kidnapped, or robbed in hospital parking lots all over the country in the last 10 years? It is a non-trivial and preventable risk.

olafpfj wrote:Murder suicide in the intensive care unit.

It wasn't murder suicide. The guy killed his wife & mother-in-law, then surrendered to police.