Parking lot of an office building? You should only be able to require me to disarm if you’re willing to guarantee my personal an dindividual safety. To be fair, my employer, which does have such a policy, also agressively patrols the parking lot. But that wouldn’t help me if I had to run an errand afterwards.

(All this is hypothetical, living in the Peoples Repbulic of NJ, I can’t actually carry anyway. Which is why my househunting is taking place one state west.)

In other news, I won’t buy anything from Whirlpool, ConocoPhillips or Williams Co.

ConocoPhillips doesn’t own many of the Conoco, Phillips, or Union 76 retail outlets. Almost all their business is trading commodities with other energy companies, or buying crude to refine and selling the products to other companies (Shell, BP, Continental Airlines, etc).

That said, I think they ban guns simply for liability reasons. Because their employees at the Houston headquarters live in Houston and work at an oil company. I guarantee you that 20% or more of the cars in their parking lot have guns in them. I went hunting after work with a ConocoPhillips guy once and dropped him off at his car in their lot afterwords. Security didn’t seem to mind the shotguns in the car.