Should guns be banned in hospitals?

[Heddi]

196. State Patrol.. doesn't your state have State Patrol officeres?

Because of kooks on the internet, I'm not going to tell you where I work, because I'm the only level-1 trauma center in my state (actually for several states). And many posters on this site know me, and know I'm an RN, and know that I work in a level-1 trauma center.

Other states call them "highway patrol". My state calls the troopers "State Patrol". Same thing. My hospital is a state hospital, therefore city police officers do not work here, state patrol officers do.

And as an employee for over 5 years at this hospital, I can tell you that this is the safest place I've ever worked, my co-workers feel the same (even though there could be improvements). Sure as fuck beats the hospital I worked at in florida where RN's got beaten up in the parking lot on a monthly basis, one beaten into a coma by a patient that was denied pain medicine 12 hours earlier.

We have some of the nation's lowest rates of RN and other-staff violence by patients because of the presence of STate Patrol Troopers (or Highway Patrol or whatever your state calls them)