‘Survivor Of Sexual Assault’ Says She Was Fired For Having A Concealed Carry Permit

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‘Survivor Of Sexual Assault’ Says She Was Fired For Having A Concealed Carry Permit

Ryan Pickrell
China/Asia Pacific Reporter
11:46 AM 03/10/2018

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 was fired today. From Roanoke City Social Services, serving as a damn good social worker. I was fired for having a concealed carry permit. Not the gun, the permit. I was escorted by 3 city police officers bc I am a “safety risk to the building”
— Storm Durham (@chelstorrm) March 10, 2018

“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 that gun, and having the appropriate documentation for that gun?”

The Department of Virginia Social Services did not respond to request for comment, and the relevant person at the Roanoke Police Department was not available for comment.

“I’m going to fight back,” Durham said on Facebook Live. She is preparing to lawyer up to challenge what she considers wrongful termination. She is also preparing to meet with U.S. politicians.

She said that she does not want her job back because she does “not want to work for these liberals.”

http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/10/vi...oncealed-carry

[grower]

Good for her! I hope she is successful in her lawsuit. And it may be the best thing, after all, that she lost her job on this issue, because now it can go to the courts. It needs to be clarified that the law-abiding gun owners are NOT the ones shooting up public places!

[moestooge]

No more sovereign immunity. Bureaucrats need to be held personally liable for their actions.

[jmthomas]

Sounds like some lib was looking for a reason to fire her to begin with. They figured with the current hysteria going on they could slide it by.

Hopefully this lady hangs they all out to dry.

[jmthomas]

No more sovereign immunity. Bureaucrats need to be held personally liable for their actions.

That would be a very good start. Would make them at least think twice.

[Rhodie]

Sounds like some lib was looking for a reason to fire her to begin with. They figured with the current hysteria going on they could slide it by.

Hopefully this lady sees them HANG.

I know it didn't need fixing, but I felt the need to vent.
A violation of Constitutional rights, by any one in Government, should mandate they lose that job and can't work in any Government job at any level.

Rhodie

[HouseWolf]

Those simmunitions glocks brink back memories. Dang those things hurt!

[Dr. Richard]

Yep. And when I took a force-on-force room clearing class a few years ago that used those, we had as many medics as shooting instructors. They were a strong reminder to not screw up when it's not practice. Plus they hurt and if they hit bare skin they usually drew blood.

Those simmunitions glocks brink back memories. Dang those things hurt!

[HouseWolf]

I was squatted down behind a stairwell, on one knee, preparing to make entrance at a 2nd floor "apartment" when my "friend" who was on the bg team shot me from an upstairs window. Hit me in the inner thigh.
I won't even try to describe that feeling, but the black and blue lasted 2 weeks and by the end had turned every color of the rainbow.
I did manage to still climb the stairs, breach the door and arrest his team... I think I may have been a bit forceful in applying the cuffs.