Are handguns allowed at work?

This conversation is scaring the **** out of me. I know my hospital has the signs. I had no idea that people that carry concealed bring guns in anyway. Jeez! The only thing I have control over is my home. I guess I'm going to have to start asking my friends if they have concealed weapons, because no gun is coming into my house. Beyond that, I will just shake my head at those that live their lives in so much fear.

So if you have to call the cops because you hear crashing glass in your house in the middle of the night, you're going to make them check their guns at the end of your driveway? If the people you work with don't scare you now, why should it scare you if they carry? Guns don't just automatically start firing.

If I bought a gun into my trust they'd throw me in prison

But I'm in England, things are really different here

All I can say is guns don't kill people, people kill people.

A gun doesn't make you safe. Look at Cpl. Cirillo. Carried a weapon on duty and still murdered in cold blood by a fanatic.

This entire thread scares me.

His gun wasn't loaded.

So if you have to call the cops because you hear crashing glass in your house in the middle of the night, you're going to make them check their guns at the end of your driveway? If the people you work with don't scare you now, why should it scare you if they carry? Guns don't just automatically start firing.

Even I understand that police officers need to carry weapons. However, they have been trained to the highest degree. My brother is a police chief, and the training they get vs. what we get is a little different. Plus, I would hope that the police officer responding to a call wouldn't be an amateur hopped up on adrenaline who might just shoot innocent people in the act of trying to protect my household.

I am allowed to dislike weapons in my home. I have had my house broken into. Owning a gun wouldn't have changed anything. However, owning a gun has killed some people, or those people's children, or those people's children's targets. So, while I understand that guns don't automatically start firing, people can't make mistakes firing guns that aren't there.

Depending on the source, we have 100 million guns in America. What folks perhaps don't understand is that there are concealed carriers in their midst considerably more often than they realize. It's classic blissful ignorance. You pass by guns at the grocery store, the mall, the gas station without even realizing...and I might add, not being harmed either. All of that hand-wringing, imagining that the streets will run red with the blood of innocents...and in reality the guns have always been here.

I can't imagine this happening in southern California. Swat team will probably have the hospital surrounded in minutes.

I do understand that, and my supposed "ignorance" is not at all "blissful." Yes, the guns "have always been here," and that's exactly why the US has so much higher a rate of gun violence and gun deaths than any other civilized nation on earth.

That violence is by and large not coming from legal gun owners.

Even I understand that police officers need to carry weapons. However, they have been trained to the highest degree. My brother is a police chief, and the training they get vs. what we get is a little different. Plus, I would hope that the police officer responding to a call wouldn't be an amateur hopped up on adrenaline who might just shoot innocent people in the act of trying to protect my household.

I am allowed to dislike weapons in my home.

So you trust strangers you've never met in your home with guns, just not people you know and otherwise trust.