Four Marines Dead: Semi-Automatic Assault Weapons Are a Security Problem for the U.S.
• http://www.truthdig.comThe United States is peculiarly prone to mass killings by people armed with semi-automatic weapons. There is no good reason for ordinary citizens to own military-style weapons, and they have long posed a threat to American national security.
How disappointing. The US Govt brought in an immigrant and he has used our laws to destroy the rights of native born Americans who had nothing to do with the killing. And why don't the marines at least allow their people to keep a pistol in the office to protect against such nuts.
It seems ludicrous to me to have a Marine recruiting site in a gun free zone. It also seems strange that at the same time that our government is arming more and more of their alphabet agencies with weapons to call on the citizenry to agree to a ban of certain of theirs. The 2nd Amendment was included to be a balance of power between the government and the governed as we had just thrown off the tyranny of King George and the British Empire. Why in the world would we recruit Marines then teach them to fight and die for us in some foreign land then prohibit them from carrying weapons in our own.