Twenty-six percent (26%) of employed adults say they have seriously thought that someone in their workplace was capable of mass violence, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Most working adults (64%), however, say they have not seriously thought a co-worker would be capable of such violence. Another 11% are undecided.
One-in-three men (33%) say they have held that thought before, compared to only 17% of women.
Forty-three percent (43%) of government workers say they have felt a fellow employee was capable of mass violence, more than double the number among those who work for private companies.
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Just 22% of all Americans believe stricter gun control laws would reduce the number of workplace shooting sprees. Most (58%) adults say stricter laws on gun ownership would not help this problem, while another 19% are undecided.
Postman, where to begin… Back up your claims about the friendly fire incidence. I bet you $100 every bullet there was from a cop or Hassan. Are you saying that some of the victims were shot by the police who were responding to the situation? If you are, than I go back to my first point: should the cops have done nothing and let Hassan continue to kill people?
Lets ask something..
Raise you hand if you have EVER done customer service..
RAISE your hand if you have CALLED customer service, and HELD for more then 20 minutes..
I have done the first…
AND I went for 2 hours on the second..FOR THEM TO PICK UP THE PHONE.
NOW,
Which would you rather BE..
Wondering if the ASS on the phone was COMING FOR YOU??
OR sitting NEXT to some MANIC/DEPRESSIVE next to you talking to a customer thats been on hold, or BOUNCED 10 times?? AND they still have the WRONG department..
You don’t need a gun to kill somebody. I had a cousin that killed seven people with a lighter.
He died in prison.
>> Ah_Yea said, on November 18th, 2009 at 11:03 am
>> Am I the only one who finds it ironic that a madman kills a bunch of people in a “gun free zone” on a military base?
You are not alone.
I’m a gun control advocate but I’m not sure what to think of this.
Who knows more about guns than the military — and they ban them on their own bases! This tends to affirm my beliefs.
However, I have to admit that there may have been less dead if they had been allowed to carry their guns at that moment.
But this is a unique circumstance — all these people were presumably well trained and disciplined in gun use.
This is very different than the insane suggestion by gun nuts that colleges, bars, churches and girl scout meetings would be safer if everyone was armed.
The solution is to have all gun owners have “gun nut” tatooed on their forehead so we all know who the dangerous ones are.
#25 Greg Allen said, “However, I have to admit that there may have been less dead if they had been allowed to carry their guns at that moment.
But this is a unique circumstance”
Not unique. There would have been fewer dead at Virginia Tech if students who had concealed carry permits were allowed to conceal carry that day. Many of the students there with concealed carry permits (but no guns with them) were former military and presumably trained to use guns.
When I go out, I don’t wish to be shot at by a crazy person. Cops cant be everywhere and if they were it would be a police state. If someone with a concealed carry permit were nearby, it would serve to protect me and everyone else around.
The reason behind these “postals” and worker suicides (see France Telecom), isn’t whether guns are available or not. It’s the increase adoption of employers of management tactics, design to force workers out before reaching retirement. Thus avoiding the burden of paying them a pension. Also tactics design to demean the workers, so they’ll not ask for better working conditions, or form unions. Keep them feeling like worthless cattle or sheep. And they’ll work til they drop, expecting little more. The corporate elite are the real sick bastards. Not those who snap cause their jobs have relocated them all over the country, to work a new area. Just like cattle.