Posted on 04/03/2014 1:23:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
The grievous shooting at Fort Hood Wednesday claimed three innocent lives and left 16 wounded—the deaths occurred in a gun-free zone due to former president Clinton’s 1993 policy to disarm soldiers on military bases.
The attack at Fort Hood lasted 15 minutes before military police arrived and exchanged fire with the shooter who then shot himself, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“Only the most out-of-touch radical would try to disarm soldiers,” Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) noted in a press release. He urged House members Thursday to repeal the ban and support his “Safe Military Bases Act.”
This is the third mass shooting on a military base in five years, and it’s because our trained soldiers aren’t allowed to carry defensive weapons. Anti-gun activists have turned our military bases into soft targets for killers.
Only the most out-of-touch radical would try to disarm soldiers. It’s time to repeal this deadly anti-gun law before it creates another mass killing. This is another tragedy created by anti-gun activists. If members of Congress are protected by loaded automatic weapons in the Capitol they have no right to deny that right to trained soldiers on base.
In 1991, just six miles from Fort Hood, we suffered a mass shooting at a Luby’s cafeteria of civilians who by law had to leave their guns in their cars. Texas responded to this tragedy by passing a concealed carry bill allowing civilians to defend themselves in public. It’s time for Congress to allow soldiers to defend themselves on base before this happens again.
Stockman’s bill would repeal two military gun control regulations and nullify any additional provisions which prohibit trained military personnel from carrying “officially issued or personally owned firearms on military bases.”
It would also bar the Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries of military departments from reinforcing these types of regulations and bar the President from issuing an executive order.
As Emily Miller wrote in 2009 after the first Fort Hood shooting:
It is hard to believe that we don’t trust soldiers with guns on an Army base when we trust these very same men in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr. Clinton’s deadly rules even disarmed officers, the most trusted members of the military charged with leading enlisted soldiers in combat.
What will it take for legislators to understand that allowing individuals (particularly highly trained military serviceman) to protect themselves is the surest way to promote safety and save lives?
I’m sure Putin and the Russian military are laughing at what idiots we are. Officers and NCOs should be able to carry on-duty should they desire, and privately owned weapons allowed in soldiers’ possession, not locked down in arms rooms, which is current policy.
They make me sick!
every breath the clintons take is a total waste of air.
The base commander, Lt. Gen Mark Milley, needs to be relieved.
He said yesterday that he did not believe in concealed carry on the base. The base also has a gun registration policy.
I believe personal owned weapons should be allowed on base, and soldiers should follow the laws of the state regarding carrying. Military-issued weapons should stay in the armory.
Obviously, the gun registration didn’t work since the soldier brought his personal weapon on base without registering it. The prevention of concealed carry also did not work, as the other soldiers could not defend themselves. All soldiers had to wait until military police arrived.
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