U.S Army spokesman Lt. General Mark A. Milley spoke to press yesterday concerning the Ft. Hood shooting, admitting it took about 15 minutes to respond to reports of the shooter. He supported the policy, active since 1992, preventing US. soldiers from carrying concealed firearms on base.
At a press conference on the shooting, which left four dead and 16 injured, Lt. Gen Mark A. Milley was asked if the gun ban should be overturned.
“No, I don’t think soldiers should have concealed weapons on base,” he stated. “We have law enforcement agents and trained professionals and I don’t endorse carrying concealed.”
But he added that it took police “10 to 15 minutes” to arrive on the scene of the shooting, long after over a dozen people were shot.
“I think law enforcement acted very rapidly and swiftly given the nature of the circumstances,” he said.
But not as swiftly as an individual shooting back at an attacker. During a shooting, when mere seconds can mean life or death, minutes are an eternity.
The concealed carry prohibition, enacted in Feb. 1992 during the H.W. Bush administration, authorized only “qualified personnel” to carry firearms on base, such as law enforcement and others on “security duties.”
In short, this DoD policy turned America’s military bases into victim disarmament zones and gun bans in general exacerbate mass shootings by preventing law-abiding citizens from carrying weapons for their protection.
“Only the most out-of-touch radical would try to disarm soldiers,” Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Tx.) stated today, who introduced the Safe Military Bases Act which would overturn the policy. “It’s time to repeal this deadly anti-gun law before it creates another mass killing.”
Source: Infowars
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Idiot…
The gross retardation of our elected, appointed and meritoriously promoted. He is a tank, an ’60, maybe an M16 and a 203, but we don’t trust you with a $#%&!@*ing handgun.
Nice call Lt Gen Dicksuck.
Yes Kelsey, you are correct, but the issue is financial cutbacks. The Pentagon has to penny pinch where they can while this president mrlts down everything about the machine. There is no money for staffing high profile military police. In the Reagan years, yes..because he wasnt taking all financial resources away from the military to re direct to a failed social healthcare agenda. It shows our enemies what is vulnerable in castle. And they are taking notes!
I am not for gun controll. But, when you get a bunch of gung-ho soldiers together we might have more deaths than what we had. Especially, if they have been out drinking. I really don’t know the answer, but you have to put things into prospective.
Soldiers not allowed to carry weapons… Does this not strike anyone else as the highest degree of stupidity???
POST SOME MP’S AT SOME OF THE EVENTS….
well If it cant be concealed then keep it in the open.
besides that they also defend the 2nd amind.
Those who died waited 20 min. didn’t they!!
This guy sounds like an idiot!