Chattanooga – MAY HAVE KILLED TERRORIST With Restricted Weapons

[righter13]

I feel ya. I never felt the want or need to carry until I got back from Iraq. I felt naked after coming home.

Afghan did the same to me.

 

[Big Ben]

CONUS bases have both MPs and DoD cops manning the gates, all armed. What you can't do is put an armed 24/7 guard on every single recruiters office and NG or Reserves installation and office, etc. Just isn't possible and still get anything else done. The only practical option would be to consolidate everything into fewer installations and then fortify them. But then other problems will pop up, recruiting will suffer, NG armory coverage and disaster preparations (already gutting because of force reductions) will get even worse. Plus it would turn those into FOBs. Do we really want to go there? Here? Are we really that scared?

The event in TN sucks, just like all of these things do, but you can't run and hide. Your odds of getting killed commuting to work are much higher than ever getting killed by a terrorist, but yet we all do it every day. Suck it up and move on. And carry.

Why do we/they need ARMED guards at a recruiters office? These soldiers are more equipped than most with all their arms training. Just let them carry!!

 

[spavent]

CONUS bases have both MPs and DoD cops manning the gates, all armed. What you can't do is put an armed 24/7 guard on every single recruiters office and NG or Reserves installation and office, etc. Just isn't possible and still get anything else done. The only practical option would be to consolidate everything into fewer installations and then fortify them. But then other problems will pop up, recruiting will suffer, NG armory coverage and disaster preparations (already gutting because of force reductions) will get even worse. Plus it would turn those into FOBs. Do we really want to go there? Here? Are we really that scared?

The event in TN sucks, just like all of these things do, but you can't run and hide. Your odds of getting killed commuting to work are much higher than ever getting killed by a terrorist, but yet we all do it every day. Suck it up and move on. And carry.

Because you will have a bunch of NDs and troops are not the most stable/reasonable people in the world. Overseas, they are focused on the enemy/mission and confined and controlled (and yet you still have suicides and fragging), in garrison with all of the personal issues... PLUS all the PTSD issues (seen the vet suicide rates?). It would have a far bigger "force protection (preservation)" impact than even regular lone gunman attacks. The cure would be worse than the disease.

But thats not what people want to hear so...

X2 on these and the following.

The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C.§ 1385, original at 20 Stat.152) signed on June 18, 1878 by PresidentRutherford B. Hayes. The purpose of the act – in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807 – is to limit the powers of the federal government in using its military personnel to act as domesticlaw enforcement personnel. It was passed as an amendment to an army appropriation bill following the end of Reconstruction, and was subsequently updated in 1956 and 1981

 

[JamesG]

Still disagree though.

I wish I could too but that's the facts jack...

If the US military and civilians were being attacked at home and its elected leaders were giving in to foreign intimidation it might be a sign that the US is not doing so well in its GWOT... Oh.... Hmmm....