This will be a fun experiment, will overall shooting deaths and injuries go up or down? Is this a thing on polymarket, because the people deserve to make money on soldier’s deaths
Doesn’t he live on a base because he feared for his life off the base?
Should the military hold a bake sale to provide soldiers with the equipment they need?
Remind me —didn’t a soldier shoot up his own base a while back? Did he use a service weapon for that?
My friend’s got a shirt with his face on it. “In loving memory, Christopher Dorner. BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE”
[Edit] I’ve been corrected, Dorner was a different guy so this comment is mostly irrelevant
No, Chris Dorner was the LA city cop that went on a spree. Then his racist co-workers tried to burn him alive in a cabin near Big Bear Lake.
that was the one where the genius l.a. cops full on open fired on a pickup truck that was the wrong make/model/color and contained like 2 asian women right??
Yep, sure is.
Oohhh yeah you’re right, my bad. He’s wearing a military shirt in the picture and I mixed them up
Don’t know who made the original so I don’t want to link to a random store but this is the same shirt:
Ha, I still love it.
There’s no way this could go wrong, right Drunk Pete?
Doesn’t he live on one? Not really the smartest idea.
No no, let’s see where this goes
I, for one, think this is an excellent idea.
So do Rubio, Noem, Bondi, and Stephen Miller. Tulsi Gabbard and the White House budget director are looking into moving as well.
In any sane administration, people would rightfully be losing it over this. It’s not normal.
The memo says they are allowed to request permission not that all are allowed.
I’ll give you one guess as to how one gets approval. It won’t be by proving one’s loyalty to their Country.
They’re also staking out marine and army graduations with ICE get their families
Wise, Pete, very wise. Im sure nothing will go wrong with that.
You can already do this on installations, but you have to talk to the provost marshalls office and get approval through your chain of command. Unless theyre wringing for another Major Hassan…
Ah yes, that’s who I was thinking of
That’s exactly what came to mind. I remember when that happened vividly. I had just got to my first duty station and remember frantically calling my AIT buddies sent to Hood. No doubt this will happen again.
We must have joined the same time… my first duty station was Hood, first day at the Cav I got sent to the SRP for deployment, just so happened to be the day
Explicitely? Why the fuck would he do that. Rhetorical q of course. It simply makes no sense, except signaling to voters.
Hegseth said he is signing a memo that will direct base commanders to allow requests for troops to carry privately owned firearms “with the presumption that it is necessary for personal protection.”
He said any denial of a service member’s request must be explained in detail and in writing.
Cheesus. Administrators on all US army bases are groaning and facepalming.
You have to get through armed guards to get onto a base. Why would soldiers need to be armed for personal protection?
To protect themselves from the other armed off-duty soldiers, of course
Any resulting violence will justify the need for more guns!
I hear we aren’t take taking sexual assault accusations seriously any more, but I doubt the reasoning is to allow women to defend themselves when they try to rape them. That would be very off-brand for this administration.
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Finland allows reservists to bring their own gun if war breaks out and they’re called to service.
