NRA-backed Lt. Col (Ret) Courtney Rogers beat Republican Caucus Chairwoman Debra Maggart in the Republican primary in Sumner County Tennessee. The NRA went after Maggart because she did not support a bill in the Tennessee Legislature that would allow employees to keep guns in their cars at work as long as the cars were locked. Having owned a business and the property upon which it sat I find it very difficult to view the NRA’s stance on this issue as anything other than taking away the right of property owners to control what is brought onto their property. It is my opinion that the so-called “Safe Commute” laws infringe on property rights which are central to our safety. Locked in a car or not, the availability of guns at the workplace site makes it easier to use deadly force to settle a dispute.