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EMPLOYEE DISARMAMENT POLICY
Josey1
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EMPLOYEE DISARMAMENT POLICYBy NICKI FELLENZERHow would you like to work in a place where you're regularly required to work late hours in an unsavory part of town, where your employer will only reimburse you for $15 of your nightly travel expenses - even if it costs you more than that to get home each night, and where you're forced to sign an affidavit swearing that you will not carry a firearm for any reason?Sound like a respectable workplace to you?Well, a friend of mine works in just such a place - along with dozens of others. She frequently remains at work until well after dark - either because she's scheduled to work that late, or because she's an incredibly conscientious person. When she's finished, she takes public transportation back home, because a taxi will cost a lot more than the allotted $15 she can expect as a reimbursement. And the neighborhood is so seedy, that she - a young professional woman - was taken for a streetwalker by one of the scumbags who frequent the area as she stood outside her place of employment one afternoon.But before she could expect to go to work for this stellar employer, she had to promise that she wouldn't get a gun.You'd think she works in some backwater hellhole in China, wouldn't you? Nope.She's an attorney, and her employer..the Bronx District Attorney's Office.That's right. In the middle of the Bronx, many parts of which would make downtown Kabul look like springtime in Shangri La, a young attorney with the District Attorney's office cannot carry a firearm. Not only can she not carry a firearm in the middle of the day, but also..at night, while trying to catch public transportation out of scumbag central.Of course there are folks in that office that have much longer trips home. A cab ride would cost something to the tune of $75, of which only $15 is a reimbursable expense. This is New York, after all. Nothing is cheap. So what is a young woman to do if she can't afford a regular $75 cab ride? Take public transportation and pray she doesn't get raped or killed? Eat the daily bill and skip lunch and dinner? Apply for a concealed carry permit and pray her employers don't find out?This is New York, after all. Concealed carry permits don't grow on trees in a state represented by Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton in the Senate.What kind of an appalling place employs hard-working people, whose everyday job is to ensure justice is done, but refuses to enforce justice on behalf of its employees?Forcing prospective employees to sign an affidavit confirming that they will not apply for a permit to carry a gun is tantamount to forcing them to sign a permission slip for criminals to rob, rape or kill them. As far as I'm concerned, it's equivalent of tying their hands and sending them into a dark Bronx subway with a short skirt and cash sticking out of every pocket. Why would any employer who is in the business of justice demand injustice?I've been trying to figure it out. I can understand that New York City is in dire financial straits after the 9-11 terrorist attacks. I won't fault them for reducing the amount of travel expenses they'll reimburse. Everyone's wallets are stretched to the limit.But this policy of disarming employees has been in effect long before September.So what could be the reason? Political correctness? Criminals shouldn't feel threatened? Cops will feel the lawyers are treading on their turf? Liability? Why would an employer demand an employee remain defenseless as grounds for employment?What will it take to bring to light how foolish and dangerous this policy is? Will it take one young female attorney being raped in the middle of the Bronx on a dark night? How long before the Bronx District Attorney's Office is held liable for an employee who is killed, due to the inability to defend herself?I just hope my friend doesn't become the subject of a rude wake-up call for the Bronx DA's office. The right to self-defense shouldn't be compromised or withheld as a term of employment http://www.armedfemalesofamerica.com/archive.php?aid=160
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