I have read this thread a couple of times and bit my lip every time. This whole scenario is a waiting public relations field day for the anti-gun crowd, maybe even a blood bath in the worst case outcome.
Those "Security Professionals" are a bunch of sales men, trying to hook a client into a solution they don't need. The whole idea is bad. Trying to have an air base QRF for a shopping mall...
A bunch of Joes sitting in the woods, waiting to come in and do what? Clear the objective? Just think about how an Infantry squad clears the objective on a raid. Do that on a civilian shopping mall?
Absolutely, this is a job for law enforcement, not a bunch of Joes moaning about when they get a real job.
Now mix in the LEOs comming in hot, and seeing these Joes moving around in their commando gear. Who will shoot first? This became such a hot topic several years ago, that all of our armed guys working in a corporate enviornment now wear shirts/ jackets/ vests with "ARMED OFFICER" on them. Those of us in pure civilian attire latch onto one of these guys quick, so we don't become the focus of the responding LEOs coming in to support.
In our area, we have city, various state and federal offices, all with their own uniforms, plus all the civilian attired badge and gun carrying crowd. My partner and I have seen what happens when there's a response, and we know what we have to do, but the man (oops, person) running down the street/ plaza/ lobby with a firearm is going to get shot by one of the militant LEOs. The contract security at the same locations are typically prior service military, and these people have been the best as far as seeing the big picture and keeping it real. But again, it's the responding LEOs, by the hundreds, from dozens of agencies, that make me nervous.
The point about a civilian not being allowed to CCW into the work place, well, it's just that way. We have the same rules, yet we have several hundred staff that their primary duties require them to carry a weapon. The rules are put in place by HR people that want to eliminate the right to have a weapon. This is like this in most businesses, often quietly hidden away in their insurance or personnel policies.
Move? Not us, as Pennsylvania is very pro 2A, not to mention everything else the area offers that far out weigh moving to another state. There are work arounds for everything.
Sadly, going back to the original topic, these "security professionals" routinely are anti-gun in every sense. Surveys pushed out by ASIS and ISMA reveal their anti-gun culture and reflect the truth that they are really just a bunch of progressive liberals pushing a Socialist agenda. The security industry is not our friend.
