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politics and politicians Title: DONALD TRUMP: ABOLISH GUN FREE ZONES ON MILITARY BASES Donald Trump says that if elected president, he will abolish the gun free zones currently imposed on U.S. troops by “[mandating] that soldiers remain armed and on alert at our military bases.” In an interview with Ammoland he said: “President Clinton never should have passed a ban on soldiers being able to protect themselves on bases. America’s Armed Forces will be armed.” Trump went on to decry gun free zones on military bases as a product of “political correctness” and said removing those zones “will… [enable soldiers] to defend themselves against terrorists.” He added, “Our brave soldiers should not be at risk because of policy created by civilian leadership.” Trump’s opposition to military gun free zones is in line with his opposition to other gun control measures currently being pushed by gun control proponents like President Obama, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Gabby Giffords, and Sandy Hook Promise. Chief among these is his opposition to expanding background checks. Trump explicitly stated that he does “not support expanding background checks” because our current background check system proves such checks do not work. He added: They make it more difficult for law abiding citizens to acquire firearms while consistently failing to stop criminals from getting guns. We should re-examine our policy to make sure that these prohibitions do not impede law abiding citizens from exercising their Second Amendment rights Breitbart News has previously reported that the most prominent of public attackers over the last 15 years all passed background checks to acquire the guns they used to commit their crimes. These attackers include Dylann Roof (Charleston), Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi (Garland), Jared and Amanda Miller (Las Vegas), Elliot Rodger (Santa Barabara), Ivan Lopez (Fort Hood 2014), Darion Marcus Aguilar (Maryland mall), Karl Halverson Pierson (Arapahoe High School), Paul Ciancia (LAX), Andrew John Engeldinger (Minneapolis), Aaron Alexis (DC Navy Yard), Tennis Melvin Maynard (West Virginia), Wade Michael Page (Sinkh Temple), James Holmes (Aurora theater), Jared Loughner (Tucson), Nidal Hasan (Fort Hood 2009), Jiverly Wong (Binghamton), Seung-Hui Cho (Virginia Tech), Naveed Haq (Seattle), and Mark Barton (Atlanta). Background checks proved impotent to prevent any of these attackers from carrying out their heinous deeds but served well to make it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to get the guns they need for self-defense. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 23. He's right.
#2. To: Vicomte13, redleghunter (#1) He's right. He's pandering to the GOP base voters, nothing more. Trump was always quite pro-abortion and largely anti-gun, as are most New Yorkers. Only when trying to campaign for the GOP nomination has he suddenly realized how pro-life and pro-gun he is. I'm not sure the military wants or needs to have all the personnel on bases fully armed at all times. This sounds like Trump shooting from the hip.
#13. To: TooConservative, sneakypete, GarySpFc, CZ82 (#2) I'm not sure the military wants or needs to have all the personnel on bases fully armed at all times. It would never happen unless the military installation was under direct attack. However I advocated we go back to battalions or companies have round the clock armed staff duty officers and NCOs. Such is still controlled by military discipline. The duty personnel sign out the weapon, and ammo. As the threat increases the duty NCO becomes the Sergeant of the guard and they establish the armed guard force within general orders.
#16. To: redleghunter, TooConservative, sneakypete, GarySpFc (#13) Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't we under Threatcon Bravo at the present time?? Which would mean they are taking base security much more seriously than during Alpha. At least where I'm at they are, you see more vehicles running around with weapons on them, especially at entry/exit points.
#18. To: CZ82 (#16) I think over all it is Bravo. For where I work they are doing A LOT more vehicle inspections. Before 9/11 the AF and Navy had the best entry control screening. Army posts were open mostly with no entry control points. About 18 months before 9/11 the Army decided to adopt the AF policy of entry control at the contonement portion of post. Money was delayed but magically appeared on 9/12/01. The Army kept getting dinged on antiterrorism/force protection assessments. I would know as I was the operations officer for the Joint staff facility vulnerability assessment team's:)
#23. To: redleghunter (#18) Before 9/11 the AF and Navy had the best entry control screening. Back in the early 70's I was driving around the nuke sub pens at Norfolk Naval Yard one night. Maybe 2 AM,I was drunk,and I didn't have a base sticker on my car,was no longer in the military,and did not work for the Navy Base. The Marine gate guards let me in to drop off a couple of drunken sailors whose ship was leaving in the morning,and a sailor who was just along for the ride offered to show me around. At the time I had a beard maybe 8 or 10 inches long and a pony tail almost halfway down my back. No way was anybody going to confuse me with a active duty,or even reserve,sailor or marine.
Replies to Comment # 23. At the time I had a beard maybe 8 or 10 inches long and a pony tail almost halfway down my back. No way was anybody going to confuse me with a active duty,or even reserve,sailor or marine. Maybe they thought you were a SEAL:)
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