Impeccable logic

Military members: trusted to fight wars, not trusted to carry weapons at work

I love this country, I really do. But we’ve got a brand of stupid in this nation that I doubt you’d find anywhere else on Earth, let alone the galaxy. Requiring military members to be disarmed on military bases and in military installations? Two mass murders in the span of a few years, and yet this policy remains? Back in the Roman days, soldiers were required to be armed at all times, under penalty of death. Yet here we confiscate their personal firearms and tell them to keep their military issued weapons locked away, which leads DIRECTLY to these sorts of situations. What the hell is wrong with us? The first responders got there in seven minutes, which is an incredible response time. But there should have been return fire immediately. We trust these people to fight wars, operate battleships, fly jets, drop bombs, use drones, go on Special Forces missions, but we don’t think they’re competent or psychologically stable enough to carry a weapon to work without accidentally shooting each other?

Let me ask you: Would you board a commercial airplane if you found out the pilot has been legally barred from driving a Segway? This is your captain speaking, I’m not trusted to operate a motorized scooter at 4 miles an hour across the sidewalk, but I’ll be flying this 250 passenger aircraft 30 thousand feet in the air for the next 2600 miles. Enjoy the flight.

Argue with that.