Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of General Services
 
Board
Department of General Services
 
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Regulations Banning Concealed Firearms in Offices Occupied by Executive Branch Agencies [1 VAC 30 ‑ 105]
Action Promulgation of new regulation banning concealed firearms in executive branch agency offices
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 10/21/2016
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9/7/16  12:11 pm
Commenter: Calvin D. Wills, Jr.

Private Rights Infringing on Public Safety
 

Some Second Amendment advocates believe that they should enjoy the right to bear arms without any reasonable limits.  However, we have accepted that we can not exercise many of our other fundamental rights, such as free speech and freedom of the press if, in so doing, we cause harm to others.  Hence the laws against slander and libel as examples.  To protect public safety in executive branch offices, private citizens should be willing to sacrifice their individual desires for the common good.  To do otherwise only invites the opportunity for private disputes to become public tragedies of gun violence.

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