Gun Control on Military Bases
After Lt. Gen Cone’s lame declaration that Ft. Hood soldiers don’t carry guns because “this is our home,” it made me wonder why the most well-schooled-in-firearms people in the world should be excluded from self-defense. Michael Ledeen, who blogs at The Corner, wonders the same thing, and notes how the USMC gets it right, at least in the case below.
Gun Control on Military Bases [Michael Ledeen]
Lots of folks have wondered why there weren’t more soldiers with guns at Ft. Hood, and I’m one of them. Our younger Marine is home for the weekend from The Basic School at Quantico, and Barbara and I asked him if there were Marines with guns on the base. There are. Lots of them. And they move around all the time, checking places where Marines congregate, from classrooms to outdoor obstacle courses and parade fields and barracks. Apparently it occurred to the base commander some time ago that it was a bad idea to leave his men and women unprotected.
Amen.
