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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here’s the truth guys Open Carry on bases will NEVER happen because there is a CIA program called Orion a huge propaganda program…it is designed to make mentally ill people more likely to kill people even the Media is in on it…”what is the purpose of this propaganda machine?” you may ask…well i believe this program is meant to make honest working Americans like you and I to hate guns…and basically “beg” our government to ban them or confiscate them once they pick all the guns up…Project Orion will become a success and the government can basically do anything they want with us…
wait AND DIE????
geee anybody see a pattern DEVELOPING Lt.Nobrains
THANKS CLINTON.
He’s an Obama ass kisser.
Arm our military what in the hell were they trained for.
Making bases and schools a “No Gun Zone” will not stop evil !!! Allowing them to carry may decrease how many are killed or wounded. Evil will forever exist, no matter what you do. Think about that before you destroy our 2nd Amendment
Who was the a-hole that disarmed them or need I ask
FIRE HIS ASS
Why can local cops carry a gun in their various precinct stations and not our military on their home bases? Total b..s.!