“Not sure that everybody on post should be carrying firearms with live ammo when not in a combat zone is a good solution to on base shootings”
Many officers (active and retired) I know are fairly anti-gun and supportive of more govt control.
I think they’ve been trained to consider the average person as being incompetent.
“I think they’ve been trained to consider the average person as being incompetent.”
We have them on FR, too. One idiot army officer claimed there would be massive deaths since they are incompetent and would trip over their slings and have discharges. Of course, those same soldiers under his command and off base and on patrol would be professionals capable of handling those same weapons.
That is not my experience but what ever happens on the base falls into some officers area of responsibility and the base commander owns it all.
Too much can go wrong when 10,000 to 35,000 people are carrying loaded firearms around the base. Not everybody has good judgement. Everyone does not follows proper procedure. Not everyone has impulse control.
Not anti-gun. Used to be long range pistol silhouette shooter. Hand load my own ammo. Have enough firearms here to feel adequately armed. But I trust me and I trust you however as the numbers increase someone can’t be trusted. Otherwise there would be no post stockade, brig, or penal barracks at Ft. Leavenworth.
We should be protecting our troops not creating more problems for them.