South Bend Tribune Doesn’t Understand Property Rights

In an op-ed piece the editors at The South Bend Tribune wrote that employers should be allowed to ban guns at work. While that is a touchy issue, the problem we see is in the wording that is used to stress this point:

“This is an employer rights issue, not a Second Amendment issue. Workers aren’t denied a constitutional right by being told they can’t keep guns at their workplace. But for a property owner — any property owner — to be forced to allow guns on his property against his will certainly would be an infringement on his rights. “

 The issue we see is “any property owner” and that could imply a landlord for example. This would suggest you must be a property owner to own a firearm, and that sounds unconstitutional to us. There was a time -and most Americans don’t remember when – only property owners had the legal right to vote. By suggesting that any property own is able to ban guns on their “property” takes things a bit far.