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jmowreader

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11. Oh lord...

Thu Apr 2, 2026, 07:07 PM

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Let me tell you what is going to happen here.

Some GI who's upset over something his chain of command did is going to shoot one of his officers. And it'll happen again and again and again until base commanders say 'enough!' and reinstate installation-wide weapons bans.

In 1992 President George H.W. Bush signed a DoD-wide ban on packing heat off-duty. Before then it was up to the installation commander, and none of them allowed it. Firearms, alcohol and people who've been trained to shoot well are not a good combination.

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