Four Marines shot

[jeremy1375]

When I was in the Marines, I lived around people of all kinds at Camp Pendleton. We were never allowed to carry weapons unless we were training with them in the field. Even if we had weapons we only carried live rounds at the range. Otherwise our weapons were locked in the armory.

I never would've felt comfortable if weapons were allowed in the barracks or carried around all the time. You get people from every walk of life there. Most are fine. But you get your fair share of crazies and suicidals who aren't up to the task. You also have your raging, and I mean raging alcoholics. Nevermind the rest who only get into a stupor on the weekends. Living on base, it's not like you just get to go home at night, unless you're married. You live in the barracks with the people you work with. More than once I had the door in my room kicked in by some fuck in a black out that didn't know where they were.

FUCK NO! to weapons carried on base.

[1ViciousGSX]

Originally Posted by jeremy1375

When I was in the Marines, I lived around people of all kinds at Camp Pendleton. We were never allowed to carry weapons unless we were training with them in the field. Even if we had weapons we only carried live rounds at the range. Otherwise our weapons were locked in the armory.

I never would've felt comfortable if weapons were allowed in the barracks or carried around all the time. You get people from every walk of life there. Most are fine. But you get your fair share of crazies and suicidals who aren't up to the task. You also have your raging, and I mean raging alcoholics. Nevermind the rest who only get into a stupor on the weekends. Living on base, it's not like you just get to go home at night, unless you're married. You live in the barracks with the people you work with. More than once I had the door in my room kicked in by some fuck in a black out that didn't know where they were.

FUCK NO! to weapons carried on base.

So you were a highly trained marine (as I assume all are or they wouldn't be marines)?
Which means you were highly trained in the proper use and storage of hand guns?
Along with barracks full of other highly trained marines who received the same training your did?
And you were afraid of those other highly trained marines with hand guns?
And you would rather be a sitting target to some crazy nut job than be able to defend your self?

This makes no sense to me,.....

[goodhart]

Originally Posted by jeremy1375

When I was in the Marines, I lived around people of all kinds at Camp Pendleton. We were never allowed to carry weapons unless we were training with them in the field. Even if we had weapons we only carried live rounds at the range. Otherwise our weapons were locked in the armory.

I never would've felt comfortable if weapons were allowed in the barracks or carried around all the time. You get people from every walk of life there. Most are fine. But you get your fair share of crazies and suicidals who aren't up to the task. You also have your raging, and I mean raging alcoholics. Nevermind the rest who only get into a stupor on the weekends. Living on base, it's not like you just get to go home at night, unless you're married. You live in the barracks with the people you work with. More than once I had the door in my room kicked in by some fuck in a black out that didn't know where they were.

FUCK NO! to weapons carried on base.

Meh. Same people on bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, and every one of us carried a weapon + plenty of ammo everywhere we went. Nobody ever got shot up over there, and that was having the ste]ressors of war ad being away from home added to your daily life. At home you have your family and everything, I think if it was going to happen it would happen over there before it would at home. Drugs and alcohol were just as easy to find over there too.