It’s unbelievable to me, that on a military base, that trained military are not allowed to have weapons with them. Both of these Ft. Hood shootings would have had far less death or injuries if the military men and women on base had weapons on them.
Trained soldiers are not allowed to have weapons on post. Yet this one trained soldier had a weapon and killed three people.
IMO, neither would have happened if it were known that there were armed military personnel on that base……………
It is totally idiotic that there are no armed personnel on any military base……..
Just another killing field…….
No doubt true.
However, we should probably keep in mind that this is not some new age leftist policy. My understanding is that military men for centuries have generally not carried weapons or ammunition except as issued them for particular exercises or missions.
This probably goes back to when rank and file soldiers were recruited from the lower and often criminal classes, and basically the officers were always concerned about the possibility of mutiny.
So the officers went armed at all times (officer's sidearms) and the soldiers did not.