Poll: Banning guns from health facilities?

Do you think there should be a law banning guns from health facilities?

15.5%
Yes (65 responses)

83.5%
No (350 responses)

1.0%
I don't know. (4 responses)

419 total responses
 
I'm divided on this.

I had the opportunity (if you can call it that) to spend about 4 months nearly full time in a rehab hospital caring for a family member that had a stroke. During the duration of our treatment, the hospital posted a no concealed firearms notice (the state law had recently changed to "shall issue.")

This place was about half brain injuries and about half spinal column injuries. The brain injuries were particularly unpredictable. One very nice girl I met tried on one occasion to eat her deodorant; confused. Patients would--not regularly, but sometimes--turn and attack the staff. One man knocked a window out of the wall and nearly jumped from the second floor.

For the most part, dangerous patients were not kept at the hospital. They were transferred to facilities more capable of handling them. But lots of patients were confused in ways that usually weren't overtly dangerous. Still I would not want weapons around them. Obviously, I wouldn't want them to access a weapon, and generally it wouldn't be appropriate to use a weapon against them either.

In this case, I think a ban on weapons is probably appropriate. Where there are brain injuries, I think weapons probably do not belong.

As to hospitals in general, I have not so strong an opinion.
 
wmeSha-

As it stands now, hospitals have the authority to ban firearms from their premises, and most South Florida hospitals do. They can post the policy at their door and if you trespass it's armed trespass, a felony. Of course for the charge to stick they would usually have to ask you to leave and you would have to refuse to leave.

What Richard Rasmussen is asking for is to make hospitals a prohibited place for CCW. I guess to make it "more illegal".

BTW, there is another law dealing with carry in a mental health facility that would possibly outlaw CCW.
 
There are many different types of health facilities - a 'hospital' for the criminally insane is not the same as a community based stitch and patch shop. One rule is not appropriate for all.
 
Our hospital instituted a no carry policy - which I have obeyed...
Recently, a robber running from a mugging ran into the hospital through a side door and disappeared... The police swarmed the hospital, TV cameras around the outside, helicopter overhead, dogs, swat team, the whole nine yards.. This is a big hospital - hundreds of beds - and they were all over it for the rest of the day...
9 hours later a lady cop (shift change and she just arrived) who used to work at the hospital as a security guard said, did they check the supply closet just inside the door the guy popped in..
The answer was that the supply closet door was self locking and had to be opened with a key to get in OR OUT and the robber couldn't have gotten in there... She said, "just check it"...
Janitor quietly walked over to the supply closet and opened the door with his key... Both the robber and the cop about wet themselves...
Turned out that a previous janitor had just walked out of the closet when the robber came in the door and the door hydraulic closer hadn't completely shut the door yet (it's a slow door, I tried it later) and the guy slipped into the supply closet without the lady janitor noticing him... When the robber tried to sneak out later he discovered to his surprise he was locked in as the lock only works with the key, not the knob...

denny
 
The continued stupidity of this is astounding. MURDER IS ILLEGAL.

What, the murderer is going to obey the no-guns signs? :confused:
 
if they will sign a agreement that they can 100% prove to me that NO ONE will try to harm me while I am there then I will not carry. other wise it's ignore the sign (which is legal in this state)

(now as a patient on the other hand. pain killers and firearms don't mix....)
 
I've worked ER and ICU in a number of large hospitals here on the east coast. As a nurse I'm not allowed to carry; yet BG's enter the buildings on a regular basis with weapons. A recent poll showed that 65% of nurses have been assaulted while at work. It took a shooting in the ER of a hospital in Washington DC before they placed security guards with handguns in the ER. Luckily I was not at work that day and no one was hurt.

I'm a big guy and end up having to play bouncer much of the time at work and it's tiring being threatened by patients, or worse their families and having no way to protect yourself or the other staff. A gun in my car won't help when someone comes through the door shooting.

Be

Blair

Dec 15,1791
 
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