{"id":61074,"date":"2015-07-28T11:35:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T15:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61074"},"modified":"2015-07-28T11:38:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T15:38:41","slug":"fight-for-armed-recruiters-stymied-by-complex-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61074","title":{"rendered":"Fight for armed recruiters stymied by complex laws and scaredy cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=61075\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61075\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MS-Armed-NG-recruiters-383x333.jpg\" alt=\"MS Armed NG recruiters\" width=\"383\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-61075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MS-Armed-NG-recruiters-383x333.jpg 383w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MS-Armed-NG-recruiters-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MS-Armed-NG-recruiters.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/jul\/27\/arming-us-military-recruiters-delayed-by-legal-iss\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that even though there are members of Congress who want to arm recruiters in the wake of the Chattanooga shooting, the complexity of local and state laws make it more difficult;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Hunter and Sen. Steve Daines, Montana Republican, intend to clarify the law to ensure secretaries can grant permission to arm reservists and recruiters with a case-by-case special authorization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs much as we would like to say you have to arm all these guys, it\u2019s too problematic through the huge patchwork of state and local laws, and that creates a huge patchwork of complications,\u201d Mr. Kasper said. \u201cYou\u2019d run into problems, and it would be in their interest to have their authorization from Congress.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlox.com\/story\/29641855\/ms-national-guard-recruiting-offices-reopen-with-armed-recruiters\">In Mississippi<\/a>, National Guard recruiters are open for business after several days to think about their next move;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to [National Guard Lieutenant Colonel Rodney Harris], the addition of the guns isn&#8217;t the only security measure that will be changing at the 10 offices statewide. He says there may be some adjustments to the storefront glass, visibility, and general access.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans, like Chris Overfield, are happy to see the offices open back up so quickly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we need to show people we&#8217;re not scared to go about our daily lives,&#8221; said Overfield.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decaturdaily.com\/news\/local\/bentley-arms-state-national-guard-recruiters-but-no-arms-for\/article_069d7b7a-d606-5139-b9a9-70c84586c7a5.html\">Alabama Governor<\/a> Robert Bentley has done the same thing in his state;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bentley\u2019s decision will apply only to the Alabama Guard, leaving recruiters in Decatur for the regular Army, Marines and Navy unarmed for now.<\/p>\n<p>Yasamie August, a Bentley spokeswoman, said the governor met with state National Guard leaders Monday and approved \u201carming guardsmen involved in state active duty as well as the four National Guard recruiting locations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said other details of the changes for Alabama Guard security were classified and would not be provided.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The same has happened in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/after-tennessee-shootings-armed-citizens-guard-recruiters\/14787340\/\">North Carolina<\/a>. It beats having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktvz.com\/news\/oath-keepers-stand-guard-at-bend-military-recruiting-center\/34390958\">those goobers from Oathkeepers<\/a> protecting them. But there are governors like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmur.com\/news\/calls-continue-to-arm-military-recruiters\/34382780\">New Hampshire<\/a>&#8216;s Maggie Hassan who would prefer that, I guess;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hassan said she will follow the Guard&#8217;s recommendation against arming recruiters in favor of enhancing security procedures already in place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Imagine that, the governor&#8217;s military advisors don&#8217;t trust the troops in the &#8220;Live Free or Die&#8221; State. I guess we know what their choice is, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that even though there are members of Congress who want to arm &hellip; <a title=\"Fight for armed recruiters stymied by complex laws and scaredy cats\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61074\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fight for armed recruiters stymied by complex laws and scaredy cats<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}