ATLANTA – The owner of a Georgia-based insurance firm is requiring all of his employees to get permits to carry concealed weapons and providing each of them with a handgun.
Lance Toland of Lance Toland Associates said Tuesday that the slaying of his uncle several years ago influenced his decision to implement the policy for the 10 women and two men who work in the company’s three offices.
None of the employees objected to the policy, Toland said.
“I said, ‘We’re all going to get firearms,’ and it was a unanimous, 100-percent participation, no dissenters whatsoever,” Toland said. “It’s about protection, No. 1, but it’s really about us as citizens of this great country enjoying and using our right to bear arms.”
Toland is a pilot, and his business provides aircraft insurance risk-management services with offices in the Georgia cities of Griffin and Chamblee, and on St. Simons Island.