Our American Cousins
US Senate: "take your gun to work"
Workplace relations are a little different on opposite sides of the Atlantic. In Britain, for example, the most excitement contained within an average day is when someone mumbles too loudly about the shoddy quality of office biscuits. In America, meanwhile, it's highly likely that same person would end up taking a bullet to the brain. Unless they managed to duck in time. Then they'd be a Jammie Dodger. Ha! Do you get it? Do you? Do you?
Anyway. While this might sound like madness, it isn't actually that far from the truth. The Florida Senate has recently approved a bill which will allow residents of the state to take firearms to work. So if we ever see a Dilbert cartoon in which the loveable comic chap is gunning down employees with an AK47, we'll know who to blame.
Republican Senator Durrell Peadon explains why he thinks arming office workers is a great idea: "the second thing they wrote about in that constitution was the right to bear arms. It was what was dear in their hearts." So, dear Floridians: if ever Microsoft Excel starts playing up, feel free to embed that monitor with a shotgun shell. It's the American way.
Oddly enough, there are some people out there who don't think this is a good idea. Democratic Senator Ted Deutch ranted that: "this is an attempt to trample upon the property rights of property owners and attempt to make it more difficult to protect the workers in a workplace and those who visit our retail establishments."
It's also been noted by critics that any disgruntled employees thinking of plotting revenge now have a whole new angle to take. Forget pissing in the coffee pot - it's fairly likely that Billie-Joe the mailroom boy is now going to show that snooty secretary who's boss in a more "homicidey" kinda way.
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