They are called the Armed Forces for a reason

Last night I heard micael savage saying the same thing. Did you get that fromm him? Now I like savage and usualy agree with him but I am not sure he is accurate on what he said last night. He blamed clinton for disarming the armed services. I have not been in the military. However I am 72 years old and I just dont recall seeing many officers walking around in the private sector many years ago armed. It would seem that if a man is in the military, trained and sanctoned to fight and kill for his country that he should be trusted to pack a gun. Of course they can be old enough to be sent to fight and die but not old enough yet to vote and drink! Amazing country!
What really amaze`s me is this guy gets drumed out with a general discharge, has a bad record of anger, guns, shooting through the ceiling, shooting out someones tires etc, yet gets hired right back in doing wht he done for probley double r triple the money as a "consultant"? Says a lot for the security people that do security checks doesnt it?

As I see it, the two problems here are Privacy Concerns with respect to mental illness and Political Correctness, which I define as a substitute for those who lack common sense. Guns were here before this country was. And this country isn't the one I grew up in. When I was growing up, if you didn't get a .22 for your 12th birthday or the nearest Christmas, then you must have done something pretty bad because that's when all you friends got theirs.

Now, all the talking heads are complaining about lousy background checks on this Navy Yard lunatic. They should have been listening to LaPierre, when he was complaining to the Senate subcommittee about the broken background check system after Sandy Hook. Fix what's broken before you expand it? That only sounds reasonable to those with common sense. I see few of those among the "Elite." I also heard a psychiatrist say (can't remember if on C-SPAN or another cable network) that if he had to turn over his mental health records to the government, he would start leaving things out of his patients' files! Probably afraid he'd get sued under HIPAA.

I don't get Savage on local stations, but I heard the comment about that occurring under Clinton on one of the cable networks--I was bouncing around so much, I don't remember which one.

A lady worth listening to is that doctor in charge of treating those three wounded. On MSNBC, where I go to get the anti-gun take on things, but maybe other networks as well, by now. I didn't hear her mention guns--only that this country has changed.

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