[EyeBrock]

You never give up Bart!

[BartSimpson]

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

You never give up Bart!

Nope. I don't.

And the perp didn't kill any armed cops, did he?

[EyeBrock]

True.......!

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Dunno what good a gun is going to do you if you're targeted in a random shooting.

[andyt]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Dunno what good a gun is going to do you if you're targeted in a random shooting.

Be the first one to randomly shoot, and you'll be OK.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

andyt andyt:

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Dunno what good a gun is going to do you if you're targeted in a random shooting.

Be the first one to randomly shoot, and you'll be OK.

That one is worth grabbing a plane ticket to the coast and hunting you down to smack you upside the head

[BartSimpson]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Dunno what good a gun is going to do you if you're targeted in a random shooting.

Obviously, random shooters think otherwise.

Really, when was the last time you heard of someone walking into a police station and going on a shooting rampage? Or what about someone going on a shooting rampage at a shooting range where everyone has a loaded weapon at the ready? Or what about the shooting rampages that never take place at gun shows?

Criminals are cowards who prefer unarmed victims. See, it's no fun if people shoot back.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

How soon you forget Bart. Seems a little while back a certain military officer went on a little shooting spree on base. A place where there's no shortage of weapons or armed personnel.

[BartSimpson]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

How soon you forget Bart. Seems a little while back a certain military officer went on a little shooting spree on base. A place where there's no shortage of weapons or armed personnel.

He went on a rampage with his private gun that he smuggled in from off-base because all of the guns on base were locked up save for those in the possession of the military police, none of whom were immediately present when the shooting commenced.

It's long been an irony of the US armed forces that when the troops are on base and at home they typically have no access to arms.

This policy has proven disastrous in response to attacks back as far as Pearl Harbor where many ammunition lockers were broken open by the troops in order to secure weapons to shoot back at the Japanese. Amazingly, in the aftermath of the Dec. 7th attack several Marines and Army enlisted personnel were brought up on charges for assaulting non-coms and officers who tried to prevent them from accessing weapons without signed orders. General Marshall had all charges dismissed without inquiry upon hearing of them.

And, again, the policy proved disastrous at Fort Hood.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

That is one fucked up policy. At the least let the officers have their sidearms on base.

[BartSimpson]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

That is one fucked up policy. At the least let the officers have their sidearms on base.

Even that gets restricted on some bases if the local CO says so.

[BartSimpson]

I should add to the WW2 story that in the Phillipines that strutting putz MacArthur would not order the arms, ammo, and food released on Bataan for the pathetically idiotic reason that the troops were expected to hold their ground. Consequently as the US troops retreated they left thousands of tons of intact supplies behind for the Japanese. For several months thereafter the troops who huddled in the tunnels of Correigodor suffered under an onslaught of the well-fed Japanese shelling them with American guns and ammo.