But I do agree that recruiters should not be taking guys with hard records. Most will be nothing but trouble.
But the level of violence in criminal actions has risen geometrically since the 1960s. Today, in my inner city classroom there are folks who've committed armed robbery and are just out on parole. A few years ago, I had a murderer under similar circumstances. FEMALE killer. When I was a student in high school the incidence of assaults on teachers was maybe a fraction of 1% but last year we had so many I lost count. In fact at my inner city school we recently saw over seven thousand outdoor suspensions on a student population of just over 1,700. Mostly for acts of violence. Kids in school are mostly the "nice" kids from the 'Hood. But out there, past the perimeter fence? MS13 is racking up kills like Minnesota Fats racked up suckers at pool.
When I was on active duty at Fort Lewis in the 1980s a team of highly trained US Army Rangers planned and pulled a bank job with utter precision because that's how they were trained by our very own rich Uncle Sam! But that was the so called "Cold War." Now you've got combat hardened vets returning from a nasty theater of operations with some serious experience against a well armed and determined enemy. Not the same thing at all. I didn't say it was organized on a massive scale but look what a "small" insurgency was able to do to our guys after three years? How long would it be before there were enough cops killed to make them think real hard before answering certain types of calls in certain areas? How long before the fear spreads? Of course the pols would have the American people now believe that the simple answer is across the board Katrina style gun control. But that's all part of the pre-arranged agenda at work, here.