The Supreme Court has never interpreted the Second Amendment to force business owners to...
guaranteeing union organizers access to agricultural employers’ premises for the purpose of organizing employees.
It reasoned that these regulations, by taking away the landowners’ “right to exclude” people from their property, amounted to an unconstitutional taking of private property without just compensation in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. “Bring your guns to work” laws do the same thing. If the Constitution prohibits the government from requiring private property owners to allow someone — or something — onto their property without compensation, it should apply to both union organizers and guns. Moreover, Hassid undermines theto uphold “bring your guns to work” laws’ constitutionality. Specifically, that the state isn’t taking property; it’s just regulating property use.
Armed with this knowledge, go to work tomorrow and ask your HR department: “Do our policies explicitly ban guns at work? If not, shouldn’t they, and what do we need to do to ban guns in our workplace?”For those who are really bold, go to the next level: “If our state forces private employers to let guns onto their property against their will, are we willing to ban guns in our parking lot anyway, risk a state investigation and potential fines, and consider challenging the state’s...
You may get pushback. Employers may be wary of “politicizing” the recent tragedies or alienating certain coworkers. They may argue that enforcing gun bans at work and in parking lots would be difficult, if not impossible. They may argue that such policies wouldn’t stop someone from going home, grabbing a gun, and