Reply #41: I have worked with mentally challenged adults

[HockeyMom]

and emotionally disturbed pre teen boys. I have had them try to strangle me, stab me with a scissors, kick and knock me down, throw TV's and metal cabinets at me, etc., etc. Think I should be able to keep a gun in my car or on my person to defend myself? I have had them threaten to follow me home. Do I need a GUN?

Neither state, NY, or even lenient Florida, thinks so.

Edit: I even worked in a group home with 6 emotionally disturbed adult men overnights ALL ALONE. Just ME and them. Yeah, sometimes they even got up in the middle of the night and started fighting with each other, and I was in the middle of it. I had no weapons whatsoever. I TALKED them down and sent them back to bed.

I doubt any of you people would ever last one night in a job like that. Somebody would be DEAD.