(in Israel)
The answer is that the bases are under the command of officers who are concerned with their careers. Should some form of “accident report” come out blaming them for an accidental discharge or a “workplace incident” (like this latest) or a “terror attack” (like Nidal Hassan) they could lose their post.
I don't know - because Obama thinks guns are icky?
This is how Israel handles this issue per a Ping earlier.
“The IDF ensures that weapons are either with the soldier (or soldierette) while on duty, while on base or off base. Once they are home they can lock it up but the to and fro travels show them with the weapons all the time.”
When did this start happening?
By now it must be reaching the consciousness of people of all persuasions who for various reasons would target Americans in uniform, that attacking the military base is not as safe as attacking a school, but it isn’t so terribly different, and the payoff for terrorists, from Muslim to just anti-American, or anti-nuke, or anti-national policy whatevers, is incredible, mass numbers of unarmed uniformed representatives of the U.S. and on federal property, with maximum publicity.
I suggest that we should be in a rush to fix this vulnerability.
When I was in, the little arms rooms scattered around the bases were seen as a magnet for those who wanted to steal arms.
Now the Left will wail about gun control. Well, it was gun control that made the base a gun free zone.
To break the spirit of the US Military.
Biily boy Clinton.
Perhaps if Republicans win the House and Senate they can pass a Federal CCW law.
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
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.
GUN CONTROL PING
(in Israel)
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.
GUN CONTROL PING
” Why Are Military Bases Such As Fort Hood Gun-Free?”
Same reason our nuclear missile silos are empty.