Posted on 12/15/2019 10:14:25 AM PST by rktman
In the past week, in the aftermath of the shooting attack that killed three U.S. Navy sailors on a military base in Pensacola, Florida, Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends show has given substantial attention to the problem of most troops not being allowed to carry weapons on base. In several segments this week, the show highlighted the views of several Navy troops who are speaking out on the issue.
By contrast, CNN's New Day show ran a four-minute piece touting the views of Houston police chief Art Acevedo as he ranted against several prominent Republican Senators over the issue of gun control.
Earlier in the week, as previously documented by NewsBusters, the show interviewed family members of shooting victim Joshua Watson and allowed them to complain about the gun ban at the base. The next day, on Wednesday, the show got to highlighting a group of Navy troops asking for more gun rights.
Co-host Brian Kilmeade began: "Why is it that the one person with the gun is able to shoot our military men and women who are trained to use a gun? Why aren't they allowed to arm themselves on their own military base?"
Co-host Steve Doocy then added:"Right, exactly. And that is the subject of an interesting item by Lucas Tomlinson, the Pentagon producer for Fox News. He spoke to three Navy pilots. And they say that they want the Pentagon to allow them to arm themselves on base."
The three co-hosts spent three minutes discussing the issue, and played a clip of the family from the previous day's show.
On Thursday, the show ran two segments -- a four-minute discussion with three veterans and a three-minute segment with the NRA's Dana Loesch -- to give more attention to the issue of troops wanting more gun rights.
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Keep guns on base, keep muslims off base.
One is evil, the other is not.
Art Acevedo should be quietly replaced. Quietly, to avoid scandalizing him. But he should not hold the position unless he pledges allegiance to the US Constitution including Article 2 of the Bill of Rights. Remember, he swore to uphold it. Solutions are simple if we just do what is right.
What in the world are “Navy troops”?
Yeah, back in the day we were mere sailors. LOL!
I think it is INSANE for our armed services to be disarmed on army/navy bases. INSANE, stupid
Remember that “Peace Dividend” that Bill Clinton claimed from the military?
We don’t need to arm everyone on a base/post.
We just need enough armed Military Police to deter attackers.
Well, when you cut back the military, you have to cut back the Military Police.
And, young Military Police don’t vote Democrat.
Civilian security guards vote Democrat.
I believe “Navy troops” are called “sailors”.
Maybe they mean sailors and marines and couldn’t think of a single word to describe both to meet some mysterious journalistic rule against using the word ‘and’ when an awkward, inappropriate word would suffice.
The fact that soldiers have zero 2A rights is disgusting.
According to his bio, he’s from California. After that he went to Austin as chief. Didn’t Houston have anyone who came up through the ranks in PD there qualified to be chief? If not, couldn’t they find someone in the whole state of Texas to be chief? Why did they reach out to someone from California?
Back in the 50’s and 60’s when you went on base there were sidearms everywhere. Nobody thought a thing about it. Even the Pentagon had armed troops all over it.
back in the day, there was guard duty every night - along the perimeter and value targets -armory, motor pool, gun(artillery)
storage etc... ...with live ammo tho not locked and loaded.
during the day, only the gate guards were armed.
maybe have guard duty 24 hours a day...
If they want bases gun free then they need to make sure no one can bring a gun or other weapon on base. Every gun free zone in this country has the same responsibility to keep gun free zones safe. Good luck with that.
Great job, FOX!!!
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