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Fort Hood attack: My son, our soldiers, are defenseless, sitting ducks
Fox News ^ | April 3, 2014 | John Lott

Posted on 04/03/2014 6:03:43 PM PDT by richardb72

The Obama administration hasn’t learned anything from the massacres at Fort Hood in 2009 or the Washington Navy Yard last year.

For all my research on how to stop or prevent mass public shootings and all the victims at these attacks that I have talked to over the years, the attack this week at Fort Hood was different.

My son Ryan, who is stationed at Fort Hood and recently back from a tour in Afghanistan, was just two blocks from the attack and could hear the shots.

However, as was true in the 2009 attack at Fort Hood by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, soldiers, like my son, are banned from having weapons on base unless they have “a credible and specific threat against [military] personnel [exists] in that region.”

Yes, there are military police and they guard the entrances, but, like police generally, they can’t be everywhere all the time.

Thus during the Navy Yard or Fort Hood shootings, the unarmed JAG officers, marines, and soldiers could do nothing but cower as the shooter fired round after round. . . .

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; gunfreezone; johnlott
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1 posted on 04/03/2014 6:03:43 PM PDT by richardb72
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Obama Execitive Orders are getting people killed.


2 posted on 04/03/2014 6:10:00 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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We can thank Clinton for making it a gun free zone, condemn Bush for not repealing it and not codifying that repeal into law. The CO of the base admitted there was a 15 minute response time.

When seconds count, the police are minutes away.


3 posted on 04/03/2014 6:10:14 PM PDT by rstrahan
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To: richardb72

The EXEMPT US Government ONLY protects terrorists,
lets terrorists in without passports (e.g.Boston)
and keeps open borders for terrorists, and
arms them from Libya to Syria to Egypt to Mexico.

If caught, Holder and the DO”J” protect them making sure
they are not executed for their murders.


4 posted on 04/03/2014 6:14:07 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Diogenesis

Regardless, it’s accomplishing the left’s goals. They are termites that idiots have invited into the house.

You think this increases recruitment?


5 posted on 04/03/2014 6:15:44 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (The zombies here elected alcee hastings. TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: richardb72

Progressivism is disarming America and destroying the noble American military tradition. Our next Pearl Harbour/911 moment will again, predictably, rock our world I fear.


6 posted on 04/03/2014 6:17:00 PM PDT by Calusa (Were going to have that person arrested.....that did the video, said Hillary Clinton.)
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To: richardb72

Clinton started it and no one changed it..of course they are sitting ducks, libs like it that way


7 posted on 04/03/2014 6:19:25 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Yep. It’s about ‘culling the herd’ with the progs.


8 posted on 04/03/2014 6:23:37 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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The regulation that disarmed soldiers came in 1992 under George H.W. Bush presidency but took effect after Clinton took office


9 posted on 04/03/2014 6:37:54 PM PDT by The Right wing Infidel
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This was the fault of that tax raising Bush 1!! know that == feel that. These bushes are horrible presidents. I won’t go into the most colossal foreign policy error in our entire history on bush 2.
We need arms on our military NOW!!( They are afraid of them)


10 posted on 04/03/2014 6:39:55 PM PDT by SADMILLIE
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“Apparently the only government department without a military force at its disposal is the military.” —Mark Stein


11 posted on 04/03/2014 6:44:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("A man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; a man who respects it has earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: richardb72
However, as was true in the 2009 attack at Fort Hood by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, soldiers, like my son, are banned from having weapons on base unless they have “a credible and specific threat against [military] personnel [exists] in that region.”

So a sneak attack by Russians invading will meet no resistance! Obama's folly.

12 posted on 04/03/2014 6:52:19 PM PDT by roadcat
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13 posted on 04/03/2014 7:17:23 PM PDT by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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You’re not going to see a lot of vets in favor of concealed carry on base post on this thread because they actually agree with the weapons restrictions.


14 posted on 04/03/2014 7:25:55 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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Just another case of the government not keeping up with the times. A bunch of old geezers who think we are still living in a world where you don’t have to worry about being gunned down by a fellow soldier on a US military base. Or by a fellow student at your high school. Hey, wake up zombies, it’s a brave new world, and we all need to be armed at all times.


15 posted on 04/03/2014 7:55:36 PM PDT by paristexas
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To: The Right wing Infidel

No matter who blundered into it or kept it up... it’s time to GO. They don’t even GUARD these places? City police on call are their protection? Folks, acts of war aren’t always considerately declared by our foes.


16 posted on 04/03/2014 7:56:51 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: The Right wing Infidel

I mean, it’s time for it to go.


17 posted on 04/03/2014 7:57:28 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: roadcat

” Obama’s folly.”


You can’t blame only Obama for this fiasco.

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18 posted on 04/03/2014 8:00:32 PM PDT by Mears
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To: rstrahan

Guns don’t kill people, Executive Orders do.


19 posted on 04/03/2014 8:33:55 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (Why are cops ROE more lenient against us, here in the US, than U.S. military's ROE's in a war zone?)
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To: richardb72

Obama wants sitting ducks!


20 posted on 04/03/2014 8:59:06 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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