Four Marines Killed In Tennessee
 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/p...essee/?hpid=z1

WTF? :confused:

Watching this on the news on tv.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph - the military (the folks that are trained to use firearms and ones you would expect to have them) gunned down. And Marines. MARINES.

Yes, I know the the logistics and current regs - but a sign on a military base door that says "No Guns Beyond This Point" and no one armed to check in this age of military base attacks?

Really?

It was at a recruitment center. Not on base.

I know. Easy target. You would think someone might have thought of that.

Sad news.

In a country with so many guns in the hands of so many bound to happen again and again.


Barney

I was in the Corps for 6 years. I can be and could have been gunned down just as easily as anybody else. I don't know what the Marine Corps environment is like now, but back in the early 70's the only people locked and loaded were in battle zones or on guard duty. And not everybody on guard duty actually had live rounds available, much less live rounds in a magazine and chambered. It's a whole procedure to get live rounds. I doubt anything has changed. Walk onto any Marine Corps base and certainly into any recruiting office in a strip mall and nobody's packing. Nobody should be, either.

I doubt the families of those dead Marines would agree.

As do I. So what? I wouldn't feel any better walking around a Marine Corps base knowing everybody has a loaded weapon on their hip than I would in the mall. Maybe you know something about the Marine Corps that I don't. Maybe you might enlighten me if you do.

Yeh, I suppose in the midst of their grief that they may be susceptible to the NRA's message that the only solution for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.:rolleyes: