President Bill Clinton Made Military Bases “Gun-Free Zones”

Bookworm

September 17, 2013 8:23pm PST

In 2009, Major Nidal Hasan launched his own private jihad at Fort Hood, killing 13 unarmed men and women on the base. Yesterday, Aaron Alexis went to the Navy yard in Washington D.C. and killed another 12 unarmed men and women working at a military facility. Put another way, people who are rigorously trained to use arms are nevertheless sitting ducks in their own facilities. How did this happen?

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It happened because America elected William Jefferson Clinton president back in 1992. One of the first things President Clinton did when he took office was to issue regulations forbidding any military personnel other than guards, military police, and a few other specific service categories, from carrying personal weapons on a military base. It also became almost impossible for commanders to issue firearms to military personnel for their own protection.
In an editorial urging the repeal of this prohibition, the Washington Times neatly describes the real world results of this misguided Democrat policy:

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