Posted on 09/16/2013 9:09:13 PM PDT by sickoflibs
He didn’t use an AR-15 at all, actually. No AR-15 was involved in the crime.
The only AR-15 involved at all was the one that stopped him, fired by law enforcement.
Overtaken by events. I posted that earlier on, before the FBI report came out.
Thank you, though. Always good to reinforce the facts when we get them in.
Less than it was a couple of years ago. Then it was maybe one in three, at least where I worked on Ft. Hood. Then the Obama cuts began.
Why? Couple of reasons. One that's where much of the technical expertise is. Many of those are former military, like this guy. Two, they don't have authority from Congress to hire enough civil servants to do their missions. They also have ceilings on the number of military personnel, also set by Congress. OH, and contractors are cheaper, IF one includes pension costs, which are "up front" for contractors, but not even funded for military and civil servants (until the people start collecting those benefits), as well as certain other costs for military personnel, which are funded from different accounts
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