> Police quickly responded to the scene and he was shot dead. <
From what I’ve read a sheriff’s deputy took him out. So here’s my question. Doesn’t a military base have armed security? Why did they have to wait for an outside agency to arrive?
I work on that base multiple times a year and they have their own military police dept on base. Don’t know who showed up to put him down but shit.. it’s a military base... should have been neutralized before the cops arrived. Our military men and women really should be allowed to be armed at all times.
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Naval Bases/installaltions used to be 'guarded' by ARMED Marines and ARMED Base SPs.
A lot of Military Bases have CIVILIAN Gate Guards with maybe a 'secret facility' on base guarded by US Troops/MPs.
The Shooting yesterday is a WORKING EXAMPLE of a Small town (the base), surrounded by the 'civilian county' with limited arming of security forces, virtually ALL private owned weapons banned and when an emergency (such as Fri) arises, the local 'gendarmes' had to come in and 'save the day'.
In the 'old days', the Civilian PDS would have been 'stopped at the gate' if the base had been 'locked down', oh, probably would have been VERY FEW 'surviving shooters'.
I shudda read ahead