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a story by Charredtorso

Several years ago, while working executive protection off duty, I was part of a security team closing down a .com company in the South Bay Area of Los Angeles County. It was well organized, with a team of people handing out severance packages. We were there in case some employee got stupid.
There were about 300 people getting terminated.

The woman in charge of Human Resources and the woman in charge of Security and Safety wanted to meet with us before we deployed to various places inside the building. The women handed out photos of two workers and their cars, with all the information we would need. "These two employees have told co-workers that if they were terminated, they would go to their cars, retrieve assault weapons and shoot the business up." "They SHOWED these weapons to co workers and all of the ammo for the assault style rifles."

Our detail leader had met with these women the day before and they didn't mention anything about shooting up the facility. The Safety Director stood up. "So, we don't want you to have guns, that's how people get hurt!" Our crew leader said: "If we don't have guns and they do, A LOT MORE people will get hurt...." Almost in tears, the HR Director said: "If you have guns and they have guns, YOU may cause them to over react and we don't want anyone (except maybe you off duty cops) to get hurt." Our crew boss could barely contain himself. "OK ladies, I understand what you are saying." "Let me talk to my team before we go out to our assignments" He looked around the meeting room. "I don't know about the rest of you, but I am staying strapped, those bitches are stupid...." Everyone nodded with approval.

The mass termination went off without a hitch. Two of us followed the dudes with their weapons in their cars until they got in their personal vehicles and left the property. Our boss called the local PD and they made a pretext stop on one of the guys. He had a little weed and several loaded magazines for an AR-15 but no rifle. Just another fun day with idiot gun haters with no basic understanding of reality.