Give Our Soldiers Guns!

“The ban on military personnel being able to carry weapons on base is a 20-year experiment that failed and places service members in danger.” It’s very embarrassing to military people to be shot and killed without being able to defend themselves because a misguided Democrat (liberal) president (Clinton) thought these men and women who went to war with guns to defend us and our rights should not have the right to have guns right where they live to use in defending themselves. That’s why there have been THREE “mass shootings” on military installations in the last few years: two at Ft. Hood, and one at the Navy Yard. But why were they no longer allowed to carry guns on post? Were they shown to be irresponsible in their handling of guns on post? No. Bill Clinton arbitrarily decided they should not be allowed to be armed on base, and for NO reason.

In Los Angeles, a would-be shooter in a POLICE STATION was stopped by ONE cop with a gun after only ONE person was wounded. The same would be true on a military base if soldiers were allowed to carry their guns on base. But short-sighted politicians (and that includes some high-ranking soldiers) think otherwise. Thus, people DIE. The most recent Ft. Hood shooting was ended when the shooter was confronted by ONE female military police person (the only one allowed to carry a gun on post). Had there been others on post armed, he would not have been able to kill a bunch of people before the cops arrived.  In Texas recently, a woman licensed to carry could not bring her gun into a restaurant and had to watch helplessly while a mass shooter murdered her parents. This kind of thing needs to STOP. Many states have responded to this kind of thing by making it easier to be “carriers.” Such shootings have predictably DECLINED in those states while they have INCREASED on military bases since Clinton’s silly order. (The Clarion-Ledger)