A woman identifying as a Virginia social worker took to social media Friday evening to vent about being fired from her job for being a concealed carry permit holder.
Storm Durham, a former Department of Virginia Social Services employee who describes herself as a “22 year old blonde who is 5’2 and about 140 pounds who loves everything Disney, pink, and basic,” asserts that she was escorted out of her office by three Roanoke, Va., police officers after she was canned. She was, according to a post on Facebook, not even allowed to use the bathroom due to “serious safety concerns to the building.”
“I was fired today due to having a concealed carry permit,” Durham wrote on Facebook. “Was my gun on me? No. Has it ever been on me during my job, or visits, or anything related to work? No. When I told them that it has never been on me during work, what did they say? ‘How do we know that.'”
“I got my concealed carry because I am woman, and y’all have seen the news, it’s kind of crazy,” she said on a Facebook Live video. In her post, she described herself as a “survivor or sexual assault.”
“I have a concealed carry permit. I own guns. I hunt. I target shoot. I represent Women hunters and outdoorswomen,” she wrote on Facebook. “Does that make me a criminal? Does that make me a safety risk to others? A big enough safety risk to be escorted by three Roanoke City Police officers? So scary and threatening that I need to be treated like a criminal? To be humiliated and looked down upon for owning a gun? For legally having a gun, registering...Read More HERE
There is a lot more to this story. She has done a good job of getting he side of the story to go viral.
ReplyDeleteLet me ask this. Were the cops/security who escorted her out armed? What tf where they allowed into the building, with guns, if that is such an issue? More? They may well not be allowed to carry arms off duty. Which might make her more qualified as well. This isn't going to go well for her employer. It might force them to allow what they are trying to deny. One can hope. That might have been the plan, by deep anti-state. It's shaping up as well as her.
ReplyDeleteLawyer up Ms. Storm and head to court.
ReplyDeletesue the hell out of them for violating your civil rights. women having their second amendment rights violated is the real civil rights struggle of our time.
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