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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what a stupid ass, that $#%&!@* comes from obomo
What a suckazz ! Bet he still wets the bed at Night ! He should go back to frying chicken !
have trained professionals – like soldiers are not trained professionals??
Milley: Get your head out of your rear and think instead of spewing the rhetoric that will most likely result in more of the same loss and sadness we’ve seen far too often on our military bases! If you really support that ridiculous policy then I hope it is YOU and no one else that is caught up in the shooting should this happen again. Shame on you and everyone else involved in supporting this stupid policy! You are all making our military personnel unarmed targets on the base at Ft. Hood and any and all bases that are stupid enough to keep this archaic policy in place!
With this policy, only bad guys will have guns.
Some of the side effects of the anti-psychotic and anti-depressant drugs are more psychosis and more depression. They know this and do nothing to stop it. They also give military mind-altering drugs and drugs that make a person very susceptible to ‘suggestion’. A lot of these are given under the guise of something else. Think MK Ultra for one.
The soilders had no guns, and within mins 3 died and 14 injured. yeah that makes sense. Keep talking about gun control.
Every sane person is against concealed carry on a military base
I love this democracy for freedom of speech, freedom to express ours filings! , is no other country like ours, looked this comments, I liked, maybe I’m not agree with all, and have different opinion, but I have respect to difference of other freedom of opinion, wich my canisters fight for it, but about guns, we should civilize true knowlidge, culture young people, and in anny of civil life guns should not have place! Look Europe, so far they don’t have this epidemic, hi civilization! Military people should have weapons only in the fields of fighting.
The military knows, even if the NRA tells their timid and frightened followers otherwise, from long hard experience that the more firearms the more accidents and deaths. FYI: this shooter was carrying concealed