Recently, Janet Rowland, a Mesa County Commissioner, announced that she thinks that county staff should be allowed to carry guns while on the job. The perceived need is because the bad guys have guns so the staff should be ready at any moment to defend themselves.
Since it's so dangerous at the county building that the staff needs guns, it's probably best to stop hand delivering property taxes and car registration fees and instead send them by mail. If more people do that then maybe they could reduce their staff if other county residents follow this practice. Downtown must be really scary. Maybe we should stop going to restaurants downtown too because those same gun totin' bad guys are bound to be in the area all the time. And what about the Farmer's Market in the summer - it's gonna be open season on all those people that are not carrying a weapon, so that's too dangerous too. Forget the Avalon, shopping or looking at all the Art on the Corner pieces too. You could be a target.
While this post is meant to be a little tongue-in-cheek, you can see where fear will take you. Tell your county commissioners that there are other solutions to ensuring safety in the county's workplace. Otherwise we run the risk of unnecesary violence from unpracticed, untrained members of our community: our friends and our neighbors.
With the recent shooting in a church on the Front Range, will there be a similar call to be armed during Sunday services, in places that are meant for peace?
And to be clear, yes we have a right to "bear arms", but can't this all come with a little common sense? And by the way, read the all of the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights and make sure you understand that bearing arms is allowed only in the context of forming a "well-regulated militia". Is there a militia in Mesa County? Just wondering.
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