We have the Navy Yard, a gun free zone. The Navy Yard is in Washington D.C. which is another gun free zone so that makes it double. We have an active shooter going into this double Gun Free Zone and starts killing people.
The solution was to send people with the guns that should have been there in the first place to avoid the massacre.
10 Photos Illustrating the Dramatic Scene Unfolding in Aftermath of the Navy Yard Shooting
I guess nobody could toss a pair of scissors at 1,100 pps or a fire extinguisher at 3,000 fps against the shooter. But don’t worry, Homeland Security will spend half billion dollars studying what could be done and post it in a Youtube video.
Clearly the solution is to render more people defenseless!
Are you saying there were no armed security personnel at the base? That would be highly unusual for a military installation but it sounds like you got the inside scoop on the info. That’s truly amazing and almost criminal, don’t you think?
Just because they’re on the base doesn’t mean they’re anywhere near where anything is happening. I work on a base, and I see guards when I go on base, who check my ID, then I don’t see anyone but civilians for the rest of the day.
Just look at Fort Hood, they had to call in regular cops to stop the shooter.
Lazy beat me to it. Ft Hood had private & local PD security. Apparently and according to our Government, the Boys and Girls in Uniform are too stupid to have guns or even patrol & secure installations.
Every since Pres Clinton our military has been left to fight off armed killers with pencils and waste paper baskets
Since Carter actually.
At least we have been issued trash cans in the AF:
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Holy crap! Now that is downright pitiful.
You know I am gonna have to use it.. 🙂
Here’s another. This happened in an alternate dimension where paper cutter > gun:
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There’s a handful at the gates. There’s a handful of guards at Building 197 — whom he apparantly shot (and may have taken at least one gun from, according to an unnamed “senior LE” official). (OTOH, I’ve never seen anything more than handguns at BLDG 197 — the longarms are at the gates.)
Building 197 (where the shooting occurred) is about as far from any of the gates as you can get and stay on base.)
All he had to do to get on base was have a CAC card with a photo that looked enough like him (or even a really good forgery), and avoid having either his trunk (if driving) or bag (if walking) searched. I’ve never been searched at the Navy Base until I actually entered Building 197.
A fire extinguisher certainly wouldn’t need to be tossed at anything north of 900 fps to be effective.
No Guns in DC, No Guns in Naval Yard. Clearly a case of double negatives, and proof they cancel each other out.
I cannot wait until Sarah Silverman explains how this was all my fault…
You stole my “double gun free zone” phrase thing and I’ve got the Tweets to prove it! You’ll be hearing from my internets liars, er, lawyers soon!
Bring it on MiniMeanie! 😀
“Homeland Security will spend half billion dollars studying what could be done and post it in a Youtube video.”
A YouTube video that will:
a) completely and utterly FAIL to accurately identify root causes or contributing factors (i.e. shooter’s mental health, unheeded “warning signs,” etc.),
b) similarly FAIL to suggest any meaningful and/or effective solutions (“Arm our ‘Armed Forces’? You’re joking, right?”),
c) place blame squarely on politically-correct scapegoat groups who had nothing to do with the tragedy (i.e. you and me),
d) be blamed in turn for inciting political and ideological enemies to attack a foreign US installation (no… wait… that was some OTHER YouTube video…),
e) a, b, and c,
f) all of the above.