The Tennessee Terrorist

Another of the wounded has died in Chattanooga, this time a Navy man. The bloody-minded terrorist had an open field as he knew the places he was attacking are Federally-mandated gun-free zones. How can government trust men to protect the nation but not trust them to defend themselves? I was always gung ho for military service and tried to join the US Naval Reserve after September 11,2001. I would now do everything possible to dissuade my child from entering the US military should the situation that exists now prevail when the child is of an age to join. Allow our forces the right to carry and issue a sidearm to at least one airman, sailor, soldier, coast guardsman, or marine at every shift at every duty station in the world. Allow our already rigorously trained military personnel to carry their personal sidearms at their duty stations. The Chattanooga jihadist would likely have been shot down before killing five men if those now dead men had guns to shoot back.