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Posted on 04/04/2014 2:49:08 PM PDT by raptor22
Gun Control: Another tragedy at Fort Hood is compounded by the absurdity of well-trained and disciplined soldiers told to "shelter in place" until the police arrive.
The second mass shooting at Fort Hood is not considered an act of terrorism.
It is, however, a grim echo of its predecessor, which was an act of terrorism called "workplace violence." And to this day, the commander in chief calls Maj. Nidal Hasan's Nov. 5, 2009, rampage in which 13 were murdered and 32 wounded "workplace violence."
In that tragedy, Hasan, a self-proclaimed "Soldier of Allah," shouted "Allahu Akhbar" and opened fire on dozens of U.S. civilians and soldiers who were unarmed and unable to fire back. Then, as now and in the Sept. 16, 2013, mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, military personnel trained to defend themselves were unable to do so and had to wait until the police arrived.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
This Is Why Most Military Personnel Aren’t Armed on Military Bases — and It’s Not Clinton’s Fault
It appears this “gun-free zone” type policy can actually be traced back to Department of Defense (DoD) Directive 5210.56, signed into effect in February 1992 by Donald J. Atwood, deputy secretary of defense under President George H.W. Bush.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/17/this-is-why-most-military-personnel-are-disarmed-on-military-bases-and-its-not-clintons-fault/
Don’t shelter in place in da bushes
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.
Because of Clinton, terrorists would face more return fire if they attacked a Texas Wal-Mart than the gunman faced at Fort Hood, home of the heavily armed and feared 1st Cavalry Division. That’s why a civilian policewoman from off base was the one whose marksmanship ended Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s rampage.
President H.W. Bush Enacted Military Base Gun Regulations In 1992, A Year Before Clinton Took Office. As The New Republic explained, a 1992 Department of Defense directive established the rules limiting firearms on military bases to “qualified personnel,” issued under former President George H.W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney:
I think police stations, jails, and prisons should be gun-free zones. /s
Oh, I forgot courthouses, especially.
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A silly bureaucratic decision makes it easy to change in the future.
Even of that's so (but The New Republic is a commie rag), the fault is still on Klintoon. He should have overturned that regulation. But he failed to do so. Why? With a passion exceeeded only by zero, he hates these United States and he dismantled the peerless American military might that President Ronald Reagan built.
At least Bush 41 and Bush 43 loved America and both served with honor in the military. Klintoon burned his draft card.
I hate to interject a little historical reality here, but throughout history, military bases frequently haven’t let enlisted or drafted soldiers carry weapons. This is to prevent attacks on officers, as well as attacks by hostile forces camouflaging themselves as friendlies.
As much as I hate Obama and his policies, I don’t think this began with with him.
The question is not why but why still. bama could have changed the regs after the 1st Ft. Hood shootings bt instead reissued them in 2011. Bush would have labeled that attack as the terrorism it was, not “workplace violence” denying benefits to the dead and the survivors.
Bush 43 could’ve repealed it, too, but he didn’t.
I notice that the article cites the Army to act on the DoD directive when Clintoon was in the Oval. When I was in, in another service, guys brought their personal weapons on base.
If soldiers are sold the false perception that the citizen public does not value or care for them, they will lose their loyalty to that citizen public, and then can be turned against them for the purposes of the tyrant.
This is the purpose of raises to welfare bums, all other government employees and cuts to the Military. Nothing Obama and the Rats do is out of stupidity or incompetence. They intend to destroy America and turn her Military against her in a deadly wave of hatred and violence.
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Correct, Bush couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag when "DemoRat" is written on it.
” Why Are Military Bases Such As Fort Hood Gun-Free?”
Same reason our nuclear missile silos are empty.
Had one once but luckily she was on the pill.
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