In the Salt Lake City Tribune, a ridiculous opinion piece: Guns in cars: Bill would wrongly limit gun bans in private parking lots:

The Utah Supreme Court ruled in 2004 that private employers can tell workers not to bring guns onto company property, including parking lots, and can fire them if they do. Some of the state’s gun-rights activists have had their tails in a knot ever since, arguing that a person ought to be able to keep a gun in his own car regardless of what his boss says.

This is what we’ve come to. Being accused of having your panties in a bunch, so to speak, because you want to exercise your 2nd amendment right as an individual.

I find this highly unconstitutional. What about individual property rights, says you? Is Utah really siding with property owners and defending their ability to make their own decisions when it comes to banning weapons on private property?

Right.

Here’s what Utah thinks of property owner’s rights.

We believe, however, that in this case, the private property rights of the employer should trump the property rights of the worker. If the company decides to adopt a no-guns policy on its premises, for the safety of its employees and customers, it should be able to do so.

And if an employee who spends 50 hours a week at a shitty job driving through shitty neighborhoods to get there and stopping at shitty little mini-marts to pick up a gallon of milk for his kids on the way home, he shouldn’t have been forced to leave his pistol at HOME instead of in the car because his bosses and/or the Utah legislature is terrified of all those workplace shootouts that are no doubt rampant throughout the state.

What this comes down to is this - if you’re going to legislate whether I’m permitted to have a pistol in my car when I step out my front fucking door and drive for a half hour to get to my workplace, then you immediately assume all responsibility for my safety the moment I step out my front fucking door. I’d love to see some follow-up legislation that makes crystal clear the ability of a worker to sue the crap out of both the state and his employer if he is harmed in a confrontation without any means to protect himself.

Sen. Mark B. Madsen, R-Eagle Mountain, believes otherwise. He is running a bill that would prohibit a business or person from enforcing a policy that bans transport or storage of a firearm in a motor vehicle in a parking lot. Sen. Madsen unsuccessfully sponsored the same bill last year.
Madsen’s bill would require that the firearm be locked securely in the car when it is not occupied, and that it not be in plain view. Schools, governments and churches would be exempt. So they could have no-guns policies in their parking lots, but private businesses could not.

I’d just as soon allow it everywhere, but hey, Madsen is at least trying here.

The logic of that escapes us.

That’s because you’re a panty-wetting retard.

If schools can prohibit their employees from bringing firearms into parking lots, why shouldn’t businesses that serve primarily children be able to do the same? What about a pediatric hospital, for example?

What a stinking pile of poo that is. Pediatric hospital? What does the mere presence of a weapon do? Nothing. It will not crawl out of it’s locked box, start the car, and mow down a gaggle of kids running out of the hospital.

These people believe the weapon will jump from it’s locked box and begin gunning down the chiiiiiiiiiiildren. It’s the most irrational argument there is. If you can’t answer the question “Why?” and back it up with at least a few statistics, what the hell are you doing pushing for legislation? For what?

We suspect that the intent of the bill is to make life easier for people with concealed-carry permits, who may be prohibited from packing their guns at work and want to leave them in their cars. But we don’t believe that this inconvenience should outweigh the rights of property owners to control policy on their own parking lots.

Then you must also assume full responsibility for their personal safety from the moment they walk out their front fucking door.