It’s true.
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Among President Clinton’s first acts upon taking office in 1993 was to disarm U.S. soldiers on military bases. In March 1993, the Army imposed regulations forbidding military personnel from carrying their personal firearms and making it almost impossible for commanders to issue firearms to soldiers in the U.S. for personal protection. For the most part, only military police regularly carry firearms on base, and their presence is stretched thin by high demand for MPs in war zones.
Because of Mr. Clinton, terrorists would face more return fire if they attacked a Texas Wal-Mart than the gunman faced at Fort Hood, home of the heavily armed and feared 1st Cavalry Division. That’s why a civilian policewoman from off base was the one whose marksmanship ended Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s rampage
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The wife of one of the soldiers shot at Fort Hood understands all too well. In an interview on CNN Monday night, Anchor John Roberts asked Mandy Foster how she felt about her husband’s upcoming deployment to Afghanistan. Ms. Foster responded: “At least he’s safe there and he can fire back, right?”
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Most people understand that guns deter criminals. Research also shows that the presence of more guns limits the damage mass murderers can unleash. A major factor in determining how many people are harmed by these killers is the time that elapses between the launch of an attack and when someone - soldier, civilian or law enforcement - arrives on the scene with a gun to end the attack. All the public shootings in the United States in which more than three people have been killed have occurred in places where concealed handguns have been banned.
Thirteen dead bodies in a Texas morgue are the ultimate fruit of gun-control illogic - in which guns are so feared that government regulation even tries to keep them out of the hands of trained soldiers. With the stroke of a pen, President Obama can end Mr. Clinton’s folly and allow U.S. soldiers to protect themselves. Because we clearly cannot protect our soldiers from harm, the least we owe them is the right to protect themselves.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/11/end-clinton-era-military-base-gun-ban/
It’s true!
It was an OFF BASE police woman that shot the TERRORIST.
This needs to be posted large, and often.
Obama has the power to restore a basic self-defense capability to our military people. If he does not use the executive power of his office to do this, then he is leaving our military open to more attacks by deranged jihadists - BY CHOICE.
That was an early confused report. But she was not from off base, she was a civilian Police Sgt working for the post's Department of Emergency services. An Army employee, not a civilian contractor (like the gate guards, who are also armed), nor a police officer from any of the jurisdictions around the post. The Senior Sgt, who also shot the terrorist after she did, was her partner and also a Civilian police officer from DES.