PA Bill Number: HB335
Title: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons.
Description: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons. ...
Last Action: Removed from table
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
Moms Demand Action Lies About Workplace Violence :: 08/04/2014
Moms Demand Action Lies About Workplace Violence. This is another of those disingenuous uses of a term that do not reflect the statistics. By what you read from Moms, 550 people are killed at work by co-workers that lost their minds, joined the NRA, bought a machine gun at the local 7-11 and went on to massacre innocent people.
But what is the reality?
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, from 1997 to 2010 there were 8,666 murders in the workplace. Out of those, 6,520 were by robberies and 894 by work associate.
Wait, you didn't know that plain old armed robberies were considered Workplace Violence? I wonder why they don't mention that. Pizza delivery man robbed and killed for $20 and a pepperoni pizza? Workplace Violence. Gas station clerk working the night shift attacked by a couple of armed thugs? Workplace Violence. Owner of a small bodega hammered to a pulp by a crackhead? Workplace Violence. And why you should be amazed? The attack in Forth Hood by Hasan Nidal was classified as Workplace Violence too!
