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Shouldn't be long before someone puts together a big sign saying:
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Everyone in this building is guaranteed to be disarmed, by direction of the building owner.
Burglars, thieves, rapists, and murderers, please do not attack or hurt the people in this building.
Not because they can do anything to stop you, but because we asked nicely. Please?
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...and puts it up on that building, snaps a few photos for the internet, then takes down the sign and runs like hell before the residents get him for the crime of telling the truth.
Any volunteers?
Wow. I got repped for that one before I finished writing it. Thanx!
While I also believe in the owner of the apartment building imposing his or her own 'rules', banning guns seems beyond the pale (especially for current residents). I wonder if an insurance company is the underlying culprit?
I assume the apartment building owner carries some type of liability insurance. Perhaps the insurance carrier is asking for the gun ban. I can imagine a case where a resident of the apartment building injures or kills another resident, with the injured resident, or survivors, suing the apartment owner for negligence in allowing residents to possess guns. I believe that many apartment buildings forbid fireworks to be brought inside the building, on the same general principle.
This reminds me of years ago: I was a helper to a friend who worked for an apartment building, in maintenance. A fire broke out in an apartment. Turns out that the people living in said apartment had just immigrated from India. They did not know how to work a stove, so they built a campfire on the carpeted floor of the living room, thoughtfully knocking out a window pane to serve as a make-shift chimney. I believe the dish they were cooking was ruined, as was one-third of the apartment building.
It was soon thereafter that I moved out of my own apartment building into a house, and I have felt safer ever since.
A fire broke out in an apartment. Turns out that the people living in said apartment had just immigrated from India. They did not know how to work a stove, so they built a campfire on the carpeted floor of the living room, thoughtfully knocking out a window pane to serve as a make-shift chimney. I believe the dish they were cooking was ruined, as was one-third of the apartment building.
While I also believe in the owner of the apartment building imposing his or her own 'rules', banning guns seems beyond the pale (especially for current residents). I wonder if an insurance company is the underlying culprit?
I assume the apartment building owner carries some type of liability insurance. Perhaps the insurance carrier is asking for the gun ban.
They ain't seen nothin' yet.
If the residents give up their guns, then a month later there's a home invasion where one or more of them is injured or killed...
...the building owner and his insurance company ain't seen what real "liability" is, yet. But they will, quickly.
If I lived there I would tell the manager I do have a gun, its always loaded, and I would like for him to come and try and take it. And unless the lease that I signed specifically banned firearms I would tell him to kiss my ass, and if he tried to evict I would sue his/her ass in court.
While I also believe in the owner of the apartment building imposing his or her own 'rules', banning guns seems beyond the pale (especially for current residents). I wonder if an insurance company is the underlying culprit?
I assume the apartment building owner carries some type of liability insurance. Perhaps the insurance carrier is asking for the gun ban. I can imagine a case where a resident of the apartment building injures or kills another resident, with the injured resident, or survivors, suing the apartment owner for negligence in allowing residents to possess guns. I believe that many apartment buildings forbid fireworks to be brought inside the building, on the same general principle.
This reminds me of years ago: I was a helper to a friend who worked for an apartment building, in maintenance. A fire broke out in an apartment. Turns out that the people living in said apartment had just immigrated from India. They did not know how to work a stove, so they built a campfire on the carpeted floor of the living room, thoughtfully knocking out a window pane to serve as a make-shift chimney. I believe the dish they were cooking was ruined, as was one-third of the apartment building.
It was soon thereafter that I moved out of my own apartment building into a house, and I have felt safer ever since.
Yep. Good points.
There are all kinds of crazy things that people can do in apartments creating liability for themselves and the owner. You've got meth labs toxins and explosions, people with exotic snakes (imagine finding a cobra in your hallway? It's happened....), discharged firearms going through walls, turning their bathtub on...forgetting about it and leaving for a few days....
Good move getting your own place.
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