I see you’re arguing for gun control on bases while you’re injecting reality to the ignorant masses.
You set up two sets of laws, those for civilians and those for soldiers. If you whine that you didn’t do it, I’ll tell you that you support it and aren’t actively working to change it.
Did your gun control stop Major Hasan?
These events have been happening since the Revolution. If you don’t want to change and give the same self-defense rights to soldiers as civilians have, then you’re complicit in the murders.
You would say the same damn thing about Obama. You’re arguments are the same as those that the Left use.
I wasn’t arguing for or against anything. I was stating the background reality that any proposed “solution” has to work within. This reality has been in effect since before the beginning of the republic. Government weapons have been, are now, and will be kept locked up when not actually in use.
Nowhere in my post did I say anything about the service members 2nd Amendment rights to own and bear arms.
I will tell you that service members DO NOT enjoy exactly the same rights as private citizens do because they accept many restrictions on their behavior as a condition of their service and that service is voluntary. Being limited as to how they exercise their ownership of personal firearms is one of those restrictions. Don’t like the restrictions? Fine, don’t serve.
Whether or not this restriction will change going forward, I don’t know. I do know that, whatever solution is ultimately crafted, it will have to be compatible with the maintenance of good order and discipline in the armed forces. Personally, I don’t think that allowing every servicemember to carry a loaded personal firearm at all times - that is what you are arguing for, isn’t it? - is in the possible set of solutions.