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pkbites said:
Those of you who are [correctly] citing the rights of private property owners, what is your opinion of the smoking ban
I am very grateful that I no longer have to worry about being able to breathe wherever I choose to spend money to have dinner (or a beer, but I rarely go to bars), but I think the law forcing clean air on employers is wrong.
For a happy medium, if they have a smoking section, it should have to be ventilated outdoors through filters, not sharing air with the rest of the restaurant / business, and only employees who volunteer to work there can enter. That would protect the health of both employees and other customers, while allowing the owner to decide if s/he wants to have smoking or not.
Model it on other OSHA laws about contaminated air.
pkbites said:
What are you babbling about?
You haven't learned to ignore Doug yet? He's been getting stranger & stranger over the last few years. I keep hoping that the VA shrink will catch that there's something very wrong with him.
svelectric said:
Full disclosure, this law applies to me, hard for me to be against it
I disagree that a bill granting special privileges is a step in the right direction, or that it would eventually lead to all licensees (or all citizens) having their rights honored.
svelectric said:
Does it make any sense to say that Officer Joe can carry at place A, B, or C at 1PM on duty but cannot return at 6 PM while in plain clothes "off duty"?
Absolutely.
Does it make any sense to say that Officer Joe can run red lights at 1PM on duty, but cannot at 6pm while in plain clothes off duty?
Does it make any sense to say that Officer Joe can handcuff someone against her will at 1PM on duty, but cannot at 6pm while in plain clothes off duty?
You are given privileges to ignore some laws in order to do your job. When you're not doing your job, you don't get (or need) those privileges.
svelectric said:
I DO think that CCL holders should be able to carry on public property (all of it, schools, colleges, etc). I also DO think that private property rights should be respected and taken out of the bill.
It's nice that we agree that far.
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