Shouldn’t Allowing our Troops to Carry Guns on Base be Championed by The Left?

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The Chattanooga shooting that left four marines dead is just the latest in a line of lone wolf attacks  where news outlets such as CNN had “questions of motive”. And as everybody knows, military bases are gun-free zones. While being allowed to possess a firearm does not guarantee one’s safety, declaring any zone gun-free just guarantees a target-rich environment at minimal risk for would be Lone Wolves. So people have started asking why military bases are gun free zones in the first place. It’s a popular myth on the right that this started under President Clinton, but in reality his was only an extension of an existing law, and it only applied to the Army. Don’t mistake that last line for me turning into a Clintonista – I’m all for holding the Clintons accountable for their sins, up to and including treason. A much broader regulation came to pass under the watch of Clinton’s immediate predecessor, President George H.W. Bush. But the purpose of this post isn’t to lay blame and point fingers at who started this policy. Why not look forward instead and use this issue to improve our standing in the International Community?

I know, this image doesn’t exactly fit the post. But I saw it on Facebook and it was too cool to not include somewhere.

Remember those days of the W. Bush presidency when we were told how our imperialistic foreign policy was damaging our standing in the eyes of the world? Thankfully we’re beyond lecturing the rest of the world as to how they need to adopt the values held by American elites. If the goal of our foreign policy is to be loved and not look like a nation of international bullies as we did under President Obama’s predecessor, why not start with our bases being gun free zones? Think about what kind of message that this sends to the rest of the world. We’re telling people in foreign countries that we’re perfectly fine sending our military walking through their streets and flying overhead with enough weaponry to raze a town in minutes, but we won’t trust these Guardians of Peace with even sidearms when they are safely away in those enclaves of America known as their bases? Shouldn’t every leftist want our bases held to the same levels of security as somewhere like the streets of Fallujah? I know, most leftists will argue for our military to not be anywhere overseas, and instead face true threats like Tea Party rallies. But if the left will acknowledge the military’s need to exist overseas, shouldn’t the left be arguing for Base Armament Equality?

I know that there are much bigger issues facing us right now, but if having this discussion helps to save the lives of our military from the next Lone Wolf attack of Unknown Motive, it’s a discussion worth having.

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Cross posted from Brother Bob’s Blog

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Allen West:

I can confirm that the United States Navy is bringing charges against Lt. Cmdr Timothy White for illegally discharging a firearm on federal property.

What kind of freaking idiots are in charge of our Armed Forces — pardon me, our “unArmed Forces”? What would they prefer that Abdulazeez had been able to kill all the Marines and Sailors at the Naval Support Reserve Center?
Mabus has a problem in that for the first time since 2007 the US Navy will not have a Carrier Battle Group operating in the Persian Gulf. But this knucklehead has no problem with the Navy seeking to destroy the career of a Sailor, a commander of an installation, returning fire against an Islamic jihadist attack. I do not care if it was his personal weapon, he deserves a medal for facing the enemy.

Folks, this has become the Obama military that will not implement policies for our men and women in uniform to be protected — but will punish them if they do protect themselves. What ever happened to the Navy of John Paul Jones, Farragut, Halsey, and Nimitz? What has happened in our America where we believe that our men and women in uniform — especially the commanders — are just targets for these damn Islamic jihadists?

http://allenbwest.com/2015/08/whats-happening-to-this-heroic-navy-officer-from-the-chattanooga-shooting-will-make-your-blood-boil/

This action has been cleared all the way through the SecDef and perhaps through Obama.
That means they thought about it before they decided to charge this father of six.
So, if you were expecting a dog whistle to blow telling ”the Left” to back allowing our troops to carry guns on bases, think again.
This is a dog whistle for quite the opposite.
Join the military……be a sitting duck.