Active Shooter in TN: US Naval and Army centers, officer down

[hurley842002]

Are you stating that you don't think any current/former Marines would fight back?

I don't think that's what he is saying at all. There were many assumptions made in that post, to be an 0311 and "take out" a jihadi, you'd have to actually be carrying. My brother is a Marine, and has his CCW, but carries very casually, meaning not often. There are just not that many people carrying, not as many as the author made it sound. A lot of bad $h!t has happened, and yet nobody responded with return fire (think Aurora theatre, where there were service members in attendance). The armed populace just isn't what people think it is, definitely a minority.

[Gman]

There are just not that many people carrying, not as many as the author made it sound. A lot of bad $h!t has happened, and yet nobody responded with return fire (think Aurora theatre, where there were service members in attendance). The armed populace just isn't what people think it is, definitely a minority.

Most of these shootings take place in free kill zones, aka "gun free zones". The shooters pick these locations because they want to impose their will without armed resistance.

[hurley842002]

Most of these shootings take place in free kill zones, aka "gun free zones". The shooters pick these locations because they want to impose their will without armed resistance.

That's pretty well known, but doesn't change the fact that there just doesn't seem to be as many armed people (gun free or otherwise), to respond to these attacks, as the OP of that article would suggest.

[Bailey Guns]

I don't think that's what he is saying at all. There were many assumptions made in that post, to be an 0311 and "take out" a jihadi, you'd have to actually be carrying. My brother is a Marine, and has his CCW, but carries very casually, meaning not often. There are just not that many people carrying, not as many as the author made it sound. A lot of bad $h!t has happened, and yet nobody responded with return fire (think Aurora theatre, where there were service members in attendance). The armed populace just isn't what people think it is, definitely a minority.

This, too. Exactly my point.