Posted on 11/05/2010 6:55:06 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Why do you insist on equating & elaborating on 200 year old practices regarding weapons with our 20th & 21st century military?
As to who and when this ban started:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/11/end-clinton-era-military-base-gun-ban/ Among President Clinton’s first acts upon taking office in 1993 was to disarm U.S. soldiers on military bases. In March 1993, the Army imposed regulations forbidding military personnel from carrying their personal firearms and making it almost impossible for commanders to issue firearms to soldiers in the U.S. for personal protection. For the most part, only military police regularly carry firearms on base, and their presence is stretched thin by high demand for MPs in war zones.
Ahemmmm...you are not nearly as intelligent as you want to believe you are........
Thank you for you semi-courteous response.
I’m sure the information about Clinton changing the rules is accurate.
However, it’s incomplete, since there is no information provided about what the rules were prior to the Clinton rules. My limited knowledge of the subject is that weapons carry on base has always been tightly controlled by the US military.
It’s possible that a similar attack on an Army base prior to the Clinton rules would have been met with an immediate storm of return fire by individual armed soldiers, but I’ve not seen any evidence that would have been the case.
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