Four Marines Killed In Tennessee

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Your solution would only work if we had bunkers built by the front door of every recruiting station and snipers on the roof. I'm not sure that strip malls owners would acquiesce to this.

Now you're being deliberately stupid.

[Boreas]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNj1dXi-z0M

[icenine]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Who said armed guards?

The recruiters are in the military.

They can guard themselves, just issue them sidearms.

And if civilian cops can walk around the community with sidearms so can military personnel.

The only place I have seen military enlisted personnel walking around with loaded firearms is Iraq.

Yeah and third world countries where the military likes to throw its weight around by carrying weapons in public to intimidate everyone. Get real.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by icenine

Many parents are wary of their kids joining the military. Having a recruiting station looking like an FOB in Iraq will turn off many who are cautious or ambivalent about enlisting.

What the fuck are mommie and daddy doing in the recruiting office?

This isn't day care that little Johnnie or little Jane is signing up for.

It's the Goddamned Marine Corps!



Nobody went with me to the recruiting office and I sure as Hell didn't go with my kid either.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Who said armed guards?

The recruiters are in the military.

They can guard themselves, just issue them sidearms.

And if civilian cops can walk around the community with sidearms so can military personnel.

20% of Iraq veterans have PTSD. I'm not sure I want tens of thousands of armed PTSD sufferers walking the streets of America. On this thread, you sound like you have succumbed to the brilliance of Wayne LaPierre.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by finnbow

20% of Iraq veterans have PTSD. I'm not sure I want tens of thousands of armed PTSD sufferers walking the streets of America. On this thread, you sound like you have succumbed to the brilliance of Wayne LaPierre.

Your contempt for the men and women of our Military is duly noted.

[icenine]

Tom Joad you have described a Dr. Strangelove version of America where the gun problem is so great that even military personnel have to arm themselves in public to protect themselves from other Americans with guns. Sad to say you may be describing the true situation.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Your contempt for the men and women of our Military is duly noted.

Contempt for the military? No, contempt for your silly, Wayne LaPierre-like position on arming every service member stateside. If the Army didn't arm its soldiers defending the Fulda Gap, I don't think we need armed service members defending strip shopping centers stateside.

FWIW, I spend the first 40 years of my life as an Army brat and Dept of Army Civilian and have done work on nearly all Army and Air Force installations in the 50 states and dozens more scattered all over the world from Germany to Italy to Belgium to Holland to Turkey to Korea to Japan.

You are so clueless in this thread that it makes my head hurt.

[matteos]

I don't see why the military doesn't have guns on base. Three rampages against them in the last 5 years... Time to have at least somebody with some firepower.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Contempt for the military? No, contempt for your silly, Wayne LaPierre-like position on arming every service member stateside.

You already described out Military as a bunch of PTSD sufferers who can't be trusted with firearms. If that ain't contempt I don't know what is.

And as for your experience as a civilian contractor, I have about the same level of contempt for them as I do child molesters. All they are are war profiteers.

Oh, and BTW, JJ's fears seem to be unfounded.

Originally Posted by JJIII

This place is going to end up with just a few guys that all think exactly the same way about everything. How stimulating is that?