I’ve been telling anyone who would listen to me that I expected a major terrorist attack in the coming weeks. It’s just a feeling that I have, because the national conversation about terrorism has been so muted by conversations about our differences, rather than our similarities. We are divided against ourselves and this is a prime time for a major attack.<\/p>\n
This blog has advocated for the arming of military folks when they’re on the job since 2009 when Nidal Hasan, an Army major, murdered and wounded a number of soldiers at Fort Hood during his own personal jihad. A few months before that, Carlos Bledsoe, a recent convert to Islam who had trained in Yemen with al Qaeda, murdered Private William Long and wounded Private Quinton Ezeagwula while they were at work at a recruiting station in Little Rock. Soon after that, Nidal Abdo, an Army deserter, was arrested for plotting to attack soldiers at Fort Hood. French soldiers have been murdered by jihadists in Toulouse, France, British soldiers have been murdered in the streets of that country. Canadian service members died in that country at the hands of Islamic extremists.<\/p>\n
Clearly, the war against Islamic extremism has followed the troops home, and the troops are completely unprepared for this new war. While they’re being warned to lower their social media profiles on the internet, the Office of Personnel Management is turning over their personal information to a foreign entity and I’m not completely convinced that the Chinese are the intended end-user of that information. And, oh, by the way, someone in the National Guard Bureau, released the personal information of every Guardsman who has served since 2004.<\/p>\n
The President yesterday called the attack on Marines “heartbreaking” which is pretty much an understatement. The fact that American service members are being killed while they are at work in their country, in their communities and they have no way to defend themselves and their workmates is criminal negligence.<\/p>\n
The Clinton-era administrative rule that prevents service members from arming themselves on military installations is an antiquated rule, a pre-9-11 rule. It’s outdated and nonsensical. As nonsensical as not allowing the troops to have loaded weapons by their side three years ago when they were being killed by those “green-on-blue” terrorists in Afghanistan. The Department of Defense came to their senses back then, it’s time for them to lobby the President for common sense to intervene in this instance as well.<\/p>\n
Yesterday only confirms that because we weren’t willing to fight terrorists over there, the terrorists are more than willing to fight our troops here – it’s time to arm ourselves against this new tactic. It is no longer a strictly law-enforcement problem, it’s a national security issue. Law enforcement, especially in this case, is unable to prevent a lone gun man who keeps his mouth shut from committing attacks like we saw yesterday.<\/p>\n
By the way, Jim Hansen, recently known as “Uncle Jimbo” from Blackfive, was on Fox News talking about the same thing this morning;<\/p>\n