Comments on: The State Doesn’t Trust its Soldiers

By: icr

icr — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:16:30 +0000

“If media reports are accurate, law enforcement arrived in approximately 3 to 4 minutes”

The latest story is that Hasan was shooting for 10 minutes!
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6706442.html

By: cousin lucky

cousin lucky — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:26:10 +0000

Ms De Coster,

My old self always doubted that our country has been occupying Afghanistan for all these years just to looking for Osama Bin Laden. This article by Nick Turse cleared my mind. We are occupying that country to guard an oil pipeline. I wonder which oil company is powerful enough to force our country to do this!!

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/print/175135/Tomgram%253A%2520%2520Nick%2520Turse%252C%2520In%2520Afghanistan%252C%2520the%2520Pentagon%2520Digs%2520in

By: Sal

Sal — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:40:20 +0000

This tragedy is a prime testament to the vulnerability of a disarmed populace. A military base, a shopping mall, a convenience store, you name it. Anyone bent on inflicting mayhem against other human beings has long passed the point of concern about firearms laws.

If media reports are accurate, law enforcement arrived in approximately 3 to 4 minutes. How many lives could have been saved had but one or more individuals been freely carrying firearms for the purpose of self-defense?

Whether or not the MSM spins it any other way, this incident highlights the absurdity of and true danger posed by laws pertaining to the ownership, use, and possession of firearms.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:18:16 +0000

I am a police detective and always have on my shoulder rig that carries my loaded 9mm semi-auto pistol along with two additional magazines each loaded with 15 rounds and a set of handcuffs. I also carry a backup Colt 357 Magnum revolver loaded with six magnum rounds. You can walk into any police or sheriff’s station in the United States of America and will find every officer or deputy armed with a semi-auto pistol or service revolver.

By: Johnathan

Johnathan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:18:59 +0000

Then again, perhaps is not necessarily a good thing for a standing army in (one of) its domestic headquarters to have the means to *immediately* wage violence, particularly against the adjacent unarmed populace.