[bunkerhill7]

Is it not strange that it took CIVILIAN law enforcement personnel to end an attack on a MILITARY base?
Why aren`t the USA military base personnel armed as the Israeli miitary is armed on their bases? We are both at war against the same enemy. Why don`t we use identical tactics?

[GI Joe Fan]

Because one becomes a disarmed person the instant he/she enters a US military facility.

No CCPs are honored on these facilities.

Everyone is disarmed in these "gun free" zones, and they are all basically at the mercy of the responding LEOs on base.

If CCPs were in effect at Fort Hood, the body count may have been lower just as the body count at Virginia Tech may have been lower if they honored CCPs.

[NorwegianViking]

Is it not strange that it took CIVILIAN law enforcement personnel to end an attack on a MILITARY base? Why aren't`t the USA military base personnel armed as the Israeli miitary is armed on their bases? We are both at war against the same enemy. Why don`t we use identical tactics?

You are so right! I hope after this tragedy, they will all be armed and on guard!

[Eagle Eye]

Why aren`t the USA military base personnel armed as the Israeli miitary is armedecau on their bases?

Maybe because US bases aren't surrounded by countries determined to annihilate them?