“The fact is, keeping our troops unarmed while on base makes them sitting ducks.”
In defense of the military, it has never been necessary in the history of this country to arm troops in the barracks. Armed guards at the gates has always been sufficient. The fact that our troops are not safe in their own domestic base is a reflection of deficits in society and our government.
In fact, I would be against keeping our troops armed on base, it would set a bad precident. I don’t want any commander and chief in charge of an active domestic military. I say this as a war vet and conservative.
I am also a vet and I say again, keeping our troops unarmed is making them targets. Once upon a time we didn’t need our troops to be armed in on post, except for gate guards, things have changed. As for armed troops being dangerous to us, that is BS. Israeli soldiers not only go armed all the time, so do the civilians. The CIC would have no more power if our troops went armed then he does now. Our posts all have armories on them and the CIC could have these weapons issued if he wished to try a take over.