Oh, no. The bolts were locked up in the arms room. If someone, alone, had attacked this outpost, heck with a bolt action rifle, it would have been a bloodbath.
Yep. It's a start.
To be fair, this guy probably didn't look anything like he did at the time of the shooting, judging from the pix I've seen of him before he went over to the dark side. In fact, I have Italian friends who look more Middle Eastern than he did. Also, it's a Civil Rights Act violation to deny him a job because of his last name. OTOH, one of the media put out today that his father had been investigated for ties to terrorism. That could be a game-changer. There's still a lot of timeline, etc. still to come out...
The nuke plant was in Ohio. He was there for 10 days until he failed a background check. (No elaboration currently)
2003 is correct nobody killed at the "gun free zone," but the point is well taken. A century ago, I dare say that every US military installation had an armed guard at the gate. Normally a soldier (if an Army installation or a sailor if Navy). We have gotten soft and complacent since the end of the Cold War and literally dropped our guard. A terrorist ought to be scared to death to go to a military installation, because those by definition ought to be concentrations armed killers. Instead, we have turned them into the softest and most lucrative of targets. That could change with the simple signing of an order by the CinC, but his ideological blinders will not allow it. And nobody will be outraged as the deaths mount. Nobody really cares, noty enough to demand change, anyway.
