Quote: (04-03-2014 09:54 AM)Tail Gunner Wrote:
Soldiers were allowed to carry weapons on military bases until President Clinton enacted a prohibition. You would need to be really crazy to open fire on a military base where everyone carried firearms, at which point you would quickly be shot down like a dog.
Allowing firearms means that one or two people would die if someone was crazy enough to open fire on an armed military base, instead of ten or twenty completely defenseless victims.
Really? Now that's interesting. Never been in the military but I'd assumed that they controlled access to firearms in order to avoid accidents - seems to me that a bunch of 19 year olds running around with automatic weapons would be a recipe for a bunch of soldiers getting hurt doing something dumb. I don't really buy the "guys blowing a fuse", being in a stateside base isn't the same thing as guys fragging their asshole lieutenant out in the bush.