The way this poll and the initial post is phrased is biased. Calling a person who votes against the business owner, or for the gun owner a hypocrite does not make for an unbiased poll.
It isn't about one person trumping another's rights. It is about a property owner VOLUNTARILY giving up certain rights in order to open to the public.
Well said, Divemedic.
There is NOTHING in the least bit hypocritical about being pro-gun, pro-rights in general and believing that with a business open to the public our elected officials can control the reasons that can be used to deny access to someone/what the public must be allowed to possess, etc.
There are a slough of such laws already. When it comes to private property, pariticularly private property open to the public, society has determined that for reasons of safety or whatever government
can impose rules and restrictions.
Grymmy has been trying to sell the brady campaign snake oil that there is something inherently evil about a law forcing companies to allowed guns to be left locked in cars, while laws such as easements, ADA, union organization, etc. are still supported and legal. That dog just don't hunt. Disallow an employee from leaving a gun locked in his own vehicle, and you have disarmed him for pretty much the whole day; the drive in, the drive home, his lunch hour, his evening if he goes straight out from work, etc.
Again, the main point is
open to the public. My house is not open to the public, and only invited friends are allowed in. I would not favor a law that restricted me as a PRIVATE property owner as to whom I could allow on my property. And as far as I know none have ever been proposed.
But once I turn my private property into a business, or a portion of it, the rules change dramatically. There are already MANY laws that affect how I can run that property and what I can allow to happen there, whom I have to accomodate, etc.
The "but it's a company's private property!" whine was severely beaten down in the thread linked to above. Read through the posts on that and see if you can still vote for the property owner.
Already the gun rights believers are winning above, though the heavily biased wording of the question and initial posts are going to garner a few knee-jerk reaction votes against us.