"What Did We Learn From Ft Hood?"

[Bailey Guns]

What Did We Learn From Ft Hood?: http://www.examiner.com/x-8434-Anchorage-Libertarian-Examiner~y2009m11d9-What-did-we-learn-from-Fort-Hood

This is a very thought-provoking article about why we should NOT be so quick to jump on the "Hasan is a terrorist" bandwagon. I have to admit, I'd never thought of it from this perspective and it's changed the way I view this incident now.

This may fall under the "be careful what you wish for...you just might get it" category.

[Irving]

This article is a breath of fresh air. God bless people who are more articulate than I am.

[Bailey Guns]

This article is a breath of fresh air. God bless people who are more articulate than I am.

I feel the same way. That's why I like to read so much. Some of these Examiner.com guys are very good.

[sniper7]

we still learned something. If the feds have material on someone that is emailing known terrorists/groups they need to have a little chat with that person.

[jim02]

Hassan is not a terriost, he is a solider.
We learned the media and appoligists are wrong again, Islam extremists do exist and they are in a WAR with us and in war the enemies actions are not called terrorism, they are an act of war. A battle, fight, skirmish, ambush, attack, its all part of war.

Hassan is a solider fighting for the other side, and they just so happen to have many soliders that make cowardly attacks of unarmed targets,
military or not.
They have the belief that death is better then life and the means at which they die elevates their status in death.

As long as we allow our political correctness to be taken to the extreme's that we have, our enemies will exploit it for their gain as any good opponet would.

To wrap it up, did we as a whole learn anything, I doubt it.

[DD977GM2]

He is a terrorist and blame the entire religion also. I have no sympathy for his or any muslims actions

[Batteriesnare]

Could someone please explain this to me, as I do not have any military experience:

Why does the government not allow soldiers to carry weapons on base? Surely everyone there has had firearms training!

I would hope we could learn that an armed military on base would prevent such incidents, but I may be wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Elhuero]

Could someone please explain this to me, as I do not have any military experience:

Why does the government not allow soldiers to carry weapons on base? Surely everyone there has had firearms training!

I would hope we could learn that an armed military on base would prevent such incidents, but I may be wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The less the number of firearms floating around on post, the less chance for someone to get shot.

[SA Friday]

There's a liability factor in possible accidental shootings, and also a liability in lost weapons.

Also, they wouldn't be able to legally carry off the base, so every morning and afternoon, you would tie up the entire base for issue and turn-in of weapons and ammo. It would be a huge cluster.

In war zones, the rules change. Depending on the location and duty title, you may sleep with that bad boy, but there isn't an 'off-base' to go home to either.

[jim02]

Could someone please explain this to me, as I do not have any military experience:

Why does the government not allow soldiers to carry weapons on base? Surely everyone there has had firearms training!

I would hope we could learn that an armed military on base would prevent such incidents, but I may be wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

What the others said as far as gov weapons are concerned. As for civi/private weapons, I will say they dont trust us with our private weapons on base. I am sure they think they have a good excuse for it.
When my father was in back in the late 60 early 70's they were allowed to keep their own weapons in their rooms.
When I was in 91-96, we had to turn ours in at the base armory or store them off base.