Isn’t the Military Supposed to Be Protecting Us?
July 22, 2015
Now it’s the other way around. “Gun-toting citizens are showing up at military recruiting centers around the country, saying they plan to protect recruiters following last week’s killing of four Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga, Tennessee.” By law, military recruiters are unarmed. Seems like a stupid policy. I was not happy to read that the founder and president of Oath Keepers “issued a national call to members to guard centers.” I have a simple solution to the problem of what happened in Tennessee: Close the military recruiting offices since they are really “bomb, maim, and kill-a-foreigner-in-a-nice-uniform” recruiting offices.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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