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http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-sen03.html
Allow guns in workplace, says candidate
September 3, 2003
BY DAVE MCKINNEY AND SCOTT FORNEK
SPRINGFIELD--Last week's massacre at Windy City Core Supply might have been prevented had the employees been allowed to carry concealed weapons, the latest declared Republican U.S. Senate candidate said Tuesday.
"Would Chicago have been averted? Possibly," said retired Air Force Maj. John Borling. "If somebody had been able to take a gun from out from under the counter and defend themselves, that might have made a big difference."
Borling favors a law allowing licensed gun owners to carry their weapons at restaurants, shopping malls and even the workplace.
Borling used the official kickoff of his Senate campaign Tuesday to also call for a program requiring nearly all men and women between 18 and 26 to serve for one year in the military--awakening a debate dormant for three decades since the draft ended.