From my mailbox, the SD Bureau of Personnel has issued guidelines for state employees to carry a concealed weapon while on the job…
And actually, the position taken by the state of SD for its own employees appears entirely reasonable.
Don’t carry at the HSC, don’t carry at the state pen, keep your gun in your possession, etc.
The policy seems well thought out in terms of the reach of the law, as well as protecting employees and the people they interact with.
Any thoughts?
The memo on the SD BOP website (https://bhr.sd.gov/policies-forms/ConcealCarryPolicyFINAL07022019.pdf) indicates that state employees, aside from employees authorized to use firearms in the performance of their duties, must respect a private business’s policy against firearms on premises. Does this also apply to the general public? In other words, under the new law, can private businesses and building owners prohibit firearms on their property?
yes.
The desire to carry a gun is a neurotic insecurity. That is, someone who is a worrier, easily upset, often down or irritable, and demonstrates high emotional reactivity to stress. e.g. Stace Nelson
People who are afraid of guns should really seek out professional psychological help.
In a world where the country band “Confederate Railroad” can get dropped from appearing at a fair because of their name or the image of the Betsy Ross Flag can get a shoe line dropped, anything is possible where Democrats are concerned because nothing is so innocuous that you can’t be offended by it it it furthers your socialist goals.
IYNSHO (In Your Not So Humble Opinion). Thanks for the diagnosis, doc.
Imagine being in such a tight bubble, in such a soft, privileged little white man’s bubble, where you not only have the privilege of living in a nice cushy suburb where guns are rarely necessary, but you actually believe that owning one is a neurotic insecurity. Spend sometime outside of your white corral and live in a real city for a year. Live like the majority of Americans for a year and tell me the desire for self-preservation is a neurotic insecurity. How privileged one must be to exude such a shortsighted opinion… must be Cory Heidelberger….
I sit back and wait for some of the fake 2A people in the state (South Dakota Gun Owners Group) to sue over a violation of the second amendment.
They will fail. They will bloviate. We will be worse off because blogs, facebook and activists give them an amplified voice that they shouldn’t. To paraphrase Pelosi…”they’re four people. And that’s how many votes they got.”
One good thing. Statistical studies (American Journal of Public Health) found that people who carried guns were 4.5 times as likely to be shot and 4.2 times as likely to get killed compared with unarmed citizens. Go for it, Rambo. Leave your pretty widows lots of money we can share in Hawaii.
Please do post the link to this study.
It will be fun to logically tear it into shreds.
If I’m recalling the correct study, people who carry guns are more likely to die of a gunshot. However, anon’s is taking the information out of context and infers something that is not true. The following are examples of context matters:
1) Many people who carry guns live in crime-ridden neighborhoods with higher murder rates. Carrying the gun is NOT the risk factor. It’s where they live.
2) Gun suicide is attributed to “carrying a gun” when without a gun another method would have been chosen.
3) Occupational hazard requires some to carry guns for rational reasons. If they die on the job, their death is included in the statistic. Again, the risk factor isn’t carrying the gun but the occupation.
4) Shopkeepers who depend on security cameras and other measures are less likely to die in a store robbery if they don’t have a gun (even though it is fully their right to have a gun. Just because you have the right to defend yourself and your property doesn’t mean it is the most prudent action. Is losing your life or living with killing another worth a few dollars taken from the cash register?)
That said, the study (if I remember it correctly) is valuable with regard to public health as it detailed how the risk factors can be mitigated (without banning or restricting gun ownership). While of course unloading guns in the home to prevent certain accidental deaths is obvious, there were a few others of value such as gun safety training and not depending on a gun for safety but to avoid certain crime ridden areas.
95 out of 100 people believe many statistics are made up on the spur of the moment.