WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t hear a dispute over a U.S. Postal Service regulation that bans guns from post office property and adjacent parking lots.
The justices on Monday let stand an appeals court ruling that said the Second Amendment right to bear arms does not extend to government buildings or the parking areas that serve them.
The case involved Colorado resident Tab Bonidy, who has a permit to carry a concealed handgun. He sought a court order striking down the regulation after learning he would be prosecuted for carrying his gun while picking up mail at his local post office or leaving it in his car.
The Obama administration argued that the Second Amendment does not restrict laws forbidding guns in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings.
I shouldn’t put this out on a public forum but I can’t get anyone to listen internally. Wake-up people, the threat is not from your stressed out co-workers, the threat is from Islamic terrorists! Postal facilities and local Post Offices are unguarded Federal facilities and easy targets for deranged jihadists. I work at a plant with several hundred workers and the place is wide open! Anyone can drive in the employee parking, admin parking and truck maneuvering areas with no gates or security. The building doors are locked and require a badge, except the ones that don’t that everyone knows about. Several hundred postal employees ripe for a terrorist attack. I wish I could protect myself. My clueless executives wont provide Postal Police or a security contract. I’m sure my facility is no different than many others. Nothing will be done until someone somewhere ends up dead from domestic or foreign terror.
This Country was founded on taking, stealing, and depriving the rightful owners of the necessities of life, and blaming them for such. What a farce?
President Trump sell the Postal Circus to UPS and FDX……problem solved. PO Mismanagers lost over $90 BILLION since 2009 and still got bonus money? sell off this dump and let Americans get on with 1st Class Delivery.
Who’s going to have to foot that bill? Taxpayers? If the detector beeps than does a security guard need to be paid & pat downs ECT? Just a thought not negative or positive just putting it out there.
Yes we should do like they do in the poor neighborhoods, metal detectors and bullet-proof glass.
I’m surprised we don’t have metal detectors in all offices. I’ve seen enough close calls with fellow workers who have temporarily cracked under the stress, which most of the time can be directly attributed to managerial harassment. But in the interest of fairness, it is not always the fault of local management, and our bunch may have its faults, but for the most part they’re pretty cool, not discipline crazy, and treat us city carriers pretty good, or at least as good as you can reasonably expect.
It stands to reason that when you’ve put in decades of service, and you have been working with the same bunch for years and years that you and they will have their bad days. We’ve grown older together, watched ourselves marry, have families, divorce, have serious illnesses, and other issues that life hands to all of us. Sometime a person will vent, and that’s normal as long as they are not threatening.
After 31+ years, I’ve had my moments too, especially since I was a union steward or president 17 of those years and not only had to deal with my route and my job pressures, I had to help shoulder the burden of others who weren’t as strong and were more easily upset.
I think there should be metal detectors in all postal facilities. There simply are too many people susceptible to dangerous levels of stress, too many incompetent abusive managers, and job pressure in the USPS. We have a very high rate of violence, a notoriously mean management, and the impossibility of taking guns to work would make it safer. Of course, a determined crackpot would just ignore the detector, but maybe it would be enough to deter others. I know it couldn’t hurt.
It is about time some one put a stop to this gun madness. People can’t even breath unless they have their gun with them 24 hours a day. How ever did Americans live in the past without their gun by their side all day and night?