Should soldiers be allowed to bear arms on base?
In a word, YES!!!
I think the correct balance is a partial “yes”.
Meaning that IF there are zero soldiers now carrying weapons at Ft Hood and other bases, and since there are about 40,000 soldiers at Ft Hood, lets reorganize and arm THE BEST 20,000 guys and gals. These would naturally be older, maturer, more settled, more accomplished people.
On “legal” alone, these people would then have to be trained substantially as shooting someone accidentally in a war zone is one thing because there are no civil trial lawyers around but Ft Hood is near Austin with the highest per capita lawyer count on earth.
Then each soldier carrying would have to go through the training for and obtain their CCL.
That would be as balanced a policy as is humanly possible. The younger less mature soldiers more likely to become involved in fights could be continued on no carry a few years. The point is GUN FREE must immediately stop and thousands of soldiers need to be armed so they can respond in seconds not minutes.