1. Coats wasn’t fired because he was using a legal drug, marijuana, for a legitimate purpose for which he had a prescription. He was fired for violating workplace policy.

–Coats was fired for violating workplace policy, not for using marijuana he was prescribed.

2. An employer isn’t able to fire a person who has anxiety because they are taking the correct medication to deal with the issue.

–A person taking the necessary medication for their anxiety isn’t allowed to be fired by an employer.

3. Employees don’t get fired for going out and having a few beers after work because alcohol is legal, but in Colorado so is marijuana.

–Employees in Colorado are unable to be fired for using legal substances after work. 

4. Coats shouldn’t have been fired because he was trying to treat the pain he endured on a daily basis.

–Coat’s priority to treat pain he endured on a daily basis shouldn’t have got him fired. 

5. It’s not fair to discriminate against him because he was able to ease the pain of his multiple spasms by using marijuana.

–Using marijuana eased the pain of his multiple spasms, so discriminating  against him is not fair.

6. Coats wasn’t harming anyone at his job because he was smoking marijuana but he was doing so on his own time and not at work.

–Coats only smoked marijuana on his own time, eliminating possible harm to anyone at his job.

7. Omar Gonzalez didn’t penetrate deep into the White House because of the swift actions of Secret Service agents.

–The Secret Services’ swift actions stopped Omar Gonzalez from penetrating deep into the White House.

8. The Secret Service isn’t being compelled to explain its actions because of the way it  responded to the breach of the White House, but how the breach occurred is under question.

–Rather than being compelled to explain its actions and response to the breach of the White House. The Secret Service questions how the breach occurred. 

9. Secret Service chief Julia Pierson won’t be fired because of her testimony before Congress yesterday. Her incompetence might cost her her job though.

–Even though her testimony before Congress yesterday wont get her fired. The incompetence of Secret Service chief Julia Pierson’s might cost her her job.

10. Secret Service agents didn’t use deadly force against the intruder because he was carrying a knife with a 4-inch blade.

–The intruder’s 4-inch blade prevented the Secret Service agents from using deadly force.