I asked a now-retired friend about this. He was a duty officer on several military bases back in the 1960s. He said that the last thing you want on base is universal carry. Hot heads and drunks would have resulted in a Wild West scenario. Could those here with a military background weigh in on this?
Silliest Dang thing I ever heard !
When and my name, etc are not important, but what is important is the fact that I was intimately aware of every crime reported on the largest military installation in the continental United States.
I can, without reservation, state, that for the period of time I speak of, there were no incidents wherein I feared for other soldiers lives at the hands of any other soldier, using a private or issued weapon.
We did have domestic situations involving firearms off-post and we did have suicides on post...no denial of that...but only one of them involved a firearm, with no one else around.
But our leadership was such that any budding nutball that may have been a threat to others was recognized very quickly and dealt with efficiently and effectively.
The leadership in the United States Army today is not allowed to deal with their soldiers in a manner that would accomplish what we were able to do in those days.
We need to get rid of the panty-waist liberal ring-knockers that strive for personal career above service to country and their fellow and subordinate soldiers and that subscribe to this "diversity above all" crap.
God help me, but I do not believe that unfettered access to weapons by some of the loons currently on active duty is a smart thing.
The homosexuals are so damned militant now, that if they had access to firearms in some situations, I truly believe they would murder any and every superior that counseled against their perverted life style.
And believe me, this is not a case of "well, when I was in the Army" bullshit.
It is the truth.
We dealt with the chubby-cheeked little turds like Bradley Manning, we dealt with the treasonous pieces of shit like Bergdahl.
And then, "I did not have sex with that woman" Clinton and Buttcrack Hussein Yomama came along.
Take it from there.