Posted on 07/21/2015 5:57:01 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
The writer of this tripe thought he was slick by, he thought, surreptitiously whipping out the "YOU'RE A RACIST!" on anyone who disagrees with th is lame position. Besides, the military "aren't trained to neutralize active shooters?" What the hell was American Sniper all about?
“If we can save just one life...”
I’m with them, ever since we gave our military GUNS, there has been a body count of anti-Americans. This cannot please the liberals./
Fine. Arm all Marines.
Interesting. So tell me about the MOS and experience of the Marines left exposed to murder last week.
GD’d idiot missed the MAIN point of saying arm the recruiters. These were MARINES. You cannot become a MARINE without proficiency as a rifleman. Period. All MARINES are proficient with firearms... to complete boot camp and become...a US Marine.
From a cook’s assistant up to the Commandant— all Marines are rifleman.
Other services should require the same. That is all.
If Bloomberg thinks disarming everybody would end gun violence why does he have armed bodyguards?
The only ones that should be armed are those who choose to embrace the requisite discipline to feel personally competent.
11 Bravo is EVERYONE’S secondary MOS. if not primary.
You don’t have to arm ALL of them. Just enough so that any crazy, azzhole, Muslim, homicidal maniac will think twice and won’t be able to execute people at will.
This so-called writer has never heard of BASIC TRAINING where all servicemen and women go through arms training.
They are taught to shoot, hit, and kill the enemy. Period.
By the way, there are a lot of auto mechanics who can drive like the pros. What a way to insult actual working people, Adam.
My 9 year old granddaughter can shoot a handgun, accurately, as can her mother (plus shotguns and other little thingies). Her uncle, my son, was a range and combat qualified and experienced Sharpshooter (1,000 yards with an M-249 - and that hurts. Just ask the dead Iraqi terrorists who pissed him off).
I didn’t fire a handgun until I was 65, but I put a big hurt on the Bin Laden target we used at a range. Stitched him up and down across the face and chest.
Even though I didn’t have to carry a weapon in VN and Cambodia, I knew how to use them if necessary. Learned that from an NRA instructor before you were born, Adam.
Well, Adam, I guess you just think our military personnel are incompetent, hamhanded bozos who cannot be trusted with a personal sidearm, even if they have gone through basic training.
Just another leftist, arrogant, little shit who thinks he is superior to everyone else and can tell them what they can or cannot do.
Got news for you dodo, you wouldn’t last 5 seconds in a real emergency. Might as well put a “I DON’T CARRY A WEAPON” SIGN ON YOUR ASS, and if you are Jewish, put a Star of David there just for fun. Jihadists don’t like us JOOSZ, esp. unarmed one.
I agree. Not all military members should be armed. We have “Public Affairs Officers” who in most cases have no business handling weapons. We have politicized senior officers and diverse “transgender” servicemen, both categories that may not be trustworthy. Just as the liberal talking head (Sharpton?) said he didn’t want everyone in strip malls running around with guns near a recruiting center, I don’t want literally everyone in our military armed.
However, I do want about 90% or 95% of our military armed. Almost all Marines are infantry trained and should be armed whenever they or their immediate supervisors believe firearms will add to their safety or mission success. The percentage may be slightly less in the other services, but it’s still extremely high. I don’t want all uniformed personnel armed all the time, just most of them armed whenever that would add to their safety or effectiveness (which includes whenever on recruiting duty).
“not trained to neutralize active shooters”
No, they must use their bodies to stop the shooters bullets. WTH?
Sometimes all it takes is someone just shooting back to stop one of these nutcases and cause them to off themselves. Amazing. Leave our bases and other military locations as soft targets? I HATE the left.
The left. Sacrificing our military every chance they get.
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Shocking, right?
My thoughts as well.
It’s a partial solution and a good idea. There are no total solutions to terrorism.
No, only liberal pussies like the person who wrote this article believe that.
True that. My dad’s comment on the USS Cole was... “what the hell- they were in a hostile port, or any port with a warship. The deck guards on either side should have had manned gangway security and 2 50 Cal teams each side. Could have shot the bastards in a rubber boat at 200 plus yards and blown them to hell— figures they don’t do that any more- idiots” Semper Fidelis et Deo Vindice.
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