Opinion: A rights’ balance, lacking in urgency

from Palladium-Item

It’s a classic rights dispute, but its resolution is hardly pressing in a short legislative session

In this corner, employers asserting a private property right and an overriding interest in protecting employees from workplace violence.

In the other corner, employees reciting a Second Amendment right to possess a firearm — whether for self-defense or hunting — inside their locked cars that are parked on an employer’s, or another’s, private property.

Over two previous years, legislators have been too divided to come up with a compromise law on this conflict.

With an Indiana House committee holding off action on this year’s version of a workplace guns bill, despite a full Senate seemingly eager to pass it again, the debate continues.

For our part, we return to the question posed in this space yesterday: Why is this measure so pressing during a short session of the Indiana General Assembly, a session seeking to resolve weighty issues from redistricting to constitutional caps on property taxes, local government reform and more?

And what gets sacrificed in the quest to assert some workplace gun right?