Four Marines Killed In Tennessee

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by catswiththum

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?

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.