In the wake of a shooting spree at a Navy Reserve Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, that left four Marines and a sailor dead, the Navy plans to station armed guards at reserve centers across the country, NBC reported on Friday.
Starting in October, armed personnel will stand guard at the 70 Navy reserve centers that aren’t located on military bases. Navy reservists were contacted nine days after the July 16 attack in Tennessee asking if they’d be interested in volunteering, according to emails obtained by NBC.
Mohammod Abdul Azeez’s killing of five unarmed servicemen sparked outrage among pro-gun politicians and citizens. GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump sent a flurry of tweets calling for an end to “gun-free zones” on U.S. military bases, writing that the Marines “never had a chance.”
In the weeks following the shooting, militia members and armed citizens took it upon themselves to stand watch at dozens of recruitment centers across the U.S.
Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers militia group, called on volunteers to guard the stations, and told the Columbus Dispatch that “it may be worse to be in a recruiting station” than to “walk unarmed down the streets of Baghdad.”
Military personnel have been forbidden to carry personal firearms into recruiting centers and onto bases since 1993. Though the Navy is only stationing guards at off-base reserve centers for now, NBC reported it’s considering extending this program to recruitment centers as well. As of August, the Navy is the only branch of the armed forces that plans to place armed guards at its facilities.
Well, if that Good Guy with a Gun would stop watching Dukes of Hazzard reruns, get off his ass and start doing some protecting from the Bad Guy with a Gun, the Navy could get rid of the mall cops.
Better idea… make it very difficult to get a weapon and just as hard to keep it.
Problem solved.
This is a total waste of government resources. We should put the fear of God into these Islamist evildoers by hitting them where they live. I suggest a bombing campaign against their sanctuaries in Afghanistan with deployment of Rangers, SEALs, 1st-SFOD and then full invasion with Marines and regular Army forces. After about eighteen months we need to add a full invasion of Iraq to stabilize the country and change the regime. That will take care of the problem!!!111!!ELEVENTY!!!1
What?..never mind
Hopefully not standing outside like that, because that is basically a target. Bullet resistant glass with a buzzer entry with video might be a better solution.
Silly Mr. Comments! The guards will be armed good guys. One look and the would-be shooters (the bad guys) will flee in terror. Ask any NRA member or Ted Cruz…