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Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo
Skybird,
Your right to carry (in the US) would, under the given scenario, be entirely legal to exercise. To say you would practice them "where valid" means you would carry even if the company disallowed them, as the company policy has no force of law.
Not sure what option you wanted there.....
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Without knowing the specific paragraphs in the US laws, I am certain of one thing: that private owners of property have the right to rule that private persons with arms are not allowed to enter that private property.
Private property is guaranteed in the US not one bit less than in Germany. If you come and pay a visit to me, and you were armed, and I do not want you running around on my property with a weapon on your belt, I have the right to deny you access. Like I also have the right to refuse you entrance through my door if you do not put off your shoes, assuming I were a pedantic cleaner.
Your gun does not give you a right to enforce your freedom onto me, in my privatesphere, on my property.
At the gate, at the fence is where your right ends. The law you claim may be valid in the public sphere, when we meet on neutral, open ground. Private property owners as well as business and institutions have the right to rule that they do not want an armed audience. Of course! For the same reason schools and unioversity, museum and public libraries may rule that weapons are not allowed inside. If you are armed and demand entrance to my property, and I do not like it, and you enforce it, it is an attack by you, against me. When I get attacked, I have the right of self-defence.