Carnage at NASA from office ban on self-defense.

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• With UnNews guest columnist Charlton Heston.

JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Houston, Friday — The gunman in an office "going postal" situation at Johnson Space Center was apparently upset over a poor review.

This shows what happens when the working man is unarmed. The rules against concealed carry did not stop this individual from obtaining and using a weapon. Would things have been different had a worker or manager been able to shoot back? We'll never know ... but we know for sure what the outcome is with gun control in the workplace.

When I worked at Cape Canaveral during the filming of Planet Of The Apes, I knew several co-workers that carried on a regular basis. Most were female office workers. One brought a Browning .380 to work every day. I felt safe knowing my co-workers were armed. I also felt better when they left at night that they could protect themselves and others.

We tried recently to change NASA rules about guns at work, but a proposal to give employees the right to carry handguns on site died in the boardroom without a shot being fired. Would the number of people shot at the Johnson Space Center today have been lower if workers routinely carried on site? Just imagine if workers were armed. We no longer need to imagine what will happen when they are not armed.

The board of directors is not responsible for this carnage — but they are responsible for keeping their employees from having the option to defend themselves. I'd urge a far more somber board to encourage workers with a concealed carry permit to carry those weapons in the workplace. The lives saved may belong to someone dear to them.

Didn't the heroes of Flight 93 teach us anything?

Guns can only enhance workplace relations. An armed workplace is a polite workplace.

• Michael Moore "Bowling for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory". The Awful Truth, April 20, 2007

Comments

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Don't you think it's a little too plausible?

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

Remind me to tell you the true story of the great Johnson Space Center Stakeout about fifteen years ago, all involving some young-earth creationist that NASA had hired as an engineer. The old fart took umbrage at a co-worker having a Darwin fish on the back of his car, so the creationist took great pains to rip each one off as it was replaced and throw it away. The owner brought up the situation with security, and security finally had to stake out the parking lot to catch the dolt in the act, because repeated warnings went right in one ear and out the other. From the story I heard, security was also beefed up after his firing, because apparently the dolt was exactly the sort to come in and shoot up the place because he received a bad review.

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly -- I would believe this to have been written in all seriousness by Charlton Heston.

[blackbirdcd.livejournal.com]

I've wondered the same thing about our workplace. We too have such a ban in place. Ludicrous.

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

Normally I'd reply to this, but I'd have to have myself shot if I did, unfortunately. So I won't.

Oops!

*bang*