America's Left expects You to "Shelter in Place" in the Safety of Your Gun-Free Zone

How bad would it have been had the bases not been on a "High Alert"? Here was an eery replay of the Fort Hood Terrorist Attack five years ago; similarly there was this unresponsive and unprotecting administration in place for the 9/11 terrorist attack, where four died, in Benghazi! m/r



Johnny, Get Your Gun-Free Zone :: SteynOnline

by Mark Steyn  •  Apr 3, 2014 

I have written for years about America's absurd paramilitarized bureaucracy: the federal Secretary of Education who employs not a single teacher but is the only education minister in the western world with his own SWAT team; Virginia's beverage regulators with their crack sparkling waterboarding team; USDA's Bunny Team Six; Wisconsin's Deer Team Six; the IRS agents ready to take out your W2 with an AR-15...

Apparently the only government department without a military force at its disposal is the military. So when a lone shooter opens up at an army base, Fort Shock'n'Awe has to call 911 and "shelter in place" until the county sheriff arrives. For your psycho gunman, a military base is basically a grade-school in uniform.

This seems, to put it politely, perverse - even for bases that don't sprawl over 340 square miles and have a population of 56,000. Years ago, American comics used to mock the unarmed British constabulary. Was it Robin Williams who did that routine about the copper in pursuit of a ne'er-do-well? "Stop! Or I'll shout 'Stop!' again..." The United States Government has taken it to the next level: everyone's armed except the army. As this Tweeter trapped inside the perimeter put it:

There is an active shooter on Fort Hood and the very people trained to take out armed attackers...are disarmed.

Stop! Or I'll shout "Stop!" again...

~To reprise an old line of mine, sometimes societies grow too stupid to survive. In the wake of every teenager in Lower Manhattan sneaking past the half-blind Muslim security guard snoring at the foot of the new World Trade Center to bungee jump off the top, I observed:

If al-Qaeda had a sense of humor, they'd blow up the empty World Trade Center "Freedom Tower" the day before the ribbon-cutting. But fortunately they don't, so they won't.

Likewise, they'd send in a cousin of Major Hasan to shoot up Fort Hood every two years. It's hard not to avoid the conclusion that, as an eminent Internet wallah wrote to me the other day, at a certain level America is suicidal. As I wrote in After America:

After Major Hasan's pre-Post-Traumatic Stress breakdown, General Casey, the Army's chief of staff, assured us that, despite the slaughter, it could have been a whole lot worse:

'What happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here.'

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