Retired Army Sgt. Steven Kropf apparently flashed his military identification card on Monday and drove onto the post carrying a revolver he used to kill one woman and seriously injure another, officials said Tuesday. [More]Here it comes:
Generally speaking, people are not supposed to carry loaded private weapons on post, an official said.That would be the generals speaking.
The same policy that worked so well at Ft. Hood, you see... But that's not what it's about, we're told:
It's about making sure that we have resilient systems in place where we can react and respond and take care of our Soldiers, family members and civilians here on post."React and respond. After you're dead.
How "resilient."
[Via Harvey]
4 comments:
Rome loves her brave warriors. Unless they get captured, hurt, or into trouble.
If someone REALLY wants to get you, they'll find a way. The best one can hope for is to have the means to meet force with force. It sickens me that our government doesn't trust our service members any more than it would foreign mercenaries. Are they afraid someone IMPORTANT might get holed? Rank of captain or higher, in a mutiny maybe, over illegal orders, maybe?
Defender,
I suspect that it is just a hold over from the pre WW1 military establishment. The enlisted were regarded as being none too bright children with violent tendencies. The various 18th and 19th century manuals dealing how to handle enlisted men make this point pretty clearly.
I just spent the second day this week at a VA hospital watching over a friend who had an emergency surgery... and really, REALLY unhappy to be unarmed. "NO GUNS" signs at every door, cameras everywhere and metal detectors made it impossible to remain armed and ready to defend myself or anyone.
But we all "know" that nobody would harm anyone in a veteran's hospital, don't we?
Oh, and the VA "police" there consists of one guy who drives up and down the parking lot endlessly. When I asked about it, I was told he had to be sure nobody else parked in the doctor's lot.
Hmmmm, I feel SO secure.
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