A very simple question.

When the first work place murders occur as a result of the passage of the Florida’s newly legislated “Take Your Guns To Work” law, who should the grieving surviving family members send the burial expenses? Gov. Charlie Crist, who is expected to sign this nonsense into law? The Florida Legislature, which now made it easier for nut jobs in the office to start killing people?

Or perhaps the National Rifle Association and its Steve and Eydie of the Lock & Load crowd, former Florida House member, mortician Dennis Baxley and lobbyist Marion Hammer, who argued people with concealed weapons permits could take their weapons to the workplace, thus trumping the private property rights of employers to set the ground-rules of what is acceptable conduct on company grounds.

If you needed any argument about the rank hypocritical stupidity of this law, consider that the new statute would exempt certain workplaces like nuclear power plants, hospitals, jails and schools to continue to ban employees from bringing their weapons to work.

Why is that?

If the notion that citizens should be free to take their little guns onto the grounds of their employer as some sort of perverse adherence to the Second Amendment, why then shouldn’t that same “right” also extend to schools, nuclear power plants, jails and hospitals?

Well there’s a very simple reason why.

Workplace violence is a serious, national problem. The exemptions underscore rather vividly that the authors of the “Sucking Up To The NRA” bill understood quite clearly that there are indeed crazy, twisted, unhinged people in the workplace, who if they had easy access to a weapon would become even scarier whack-jobs who talk to themselves in the next cubicle.

So if it’s worth protecting employees who work in schools, power plants, hospitals and jails, why are other workers suddenly so expendable simply to lather up a powerful special interest group?

Even more surreal. The new law could well be found unconstitutional, as it was in Oklahoma.

Or put another way, this damaged, ridiculous legislation might already be legally DOA.

Well, better dead in the courts before the body bags start to pile up.