American Quilter gave a great description of how hard it is to get through a gate on Army installations now.
Trouble is, once you get past them by, say, crawling under a barbed wire fence on the backside of the post, you are in a target rich environment. Military and civilian personnel working on base, as well as those families living in housing, are all unarmed.
The weapons are locked up in arms rooms in barracks, and the ammunition is stored in bunkers half-way across post from the weapons.
The MPs will eventually get to a shooter, but they are the only ones armed and response time will vary anywhere from 30 seconds to 10-15 minutes depending upon the location of the shooters and the nearest MP unit.
I see your point. We have the same security measures (the walls/bollards installed to pop up). My neighbor is armed to the teeth, though. The past two years, I have felt very safe living next to him LOL. We have several mounted K-Bars at ready access...I wouldn’t go down without fighting to protect my kids. I know my dogs wouldn’t either. Let’s hope it would never come to that. I trust our guards. I feel secure on the bases I have lived on. I have to admit, here in Yuma, I would get frustrated at how seemingly over-zealous PMO tended to be with gate security. I won’t ever complain about it again. Reading this story has reminded me how grateful I am that they do such a great job.
“The weapons are locked up in arms rooms in barracks, and the ammunition is stored in bunkers half-way across post from the weapons.”
Do you work for the New York Times?