Thursday, April 3, 2014

2009 Ft. Hood Attack Survivor Wants Soldiers On Base Armed and Ready to Defend Themselves
Katie Pavlich | Apr 03, 2014


On U.S. military bases, only military police and security personnel are allowed to carry weapons. Yesterday during the second attack in five years at Ft. Hood, soldiers were forced to run from a violent and armed perpetrator killing their friends. They desperately climbed fences trying to get away until finally, after three people were killed and more than a dozen were wounded, a female military police officer confronted the man shooting with her own gun. As soon as he saw her draw her weapon, the perpetrator put his gun to his head and killed himself.
Now, survivors from the 2009 Ft. Hood attack and soldiers on base yesterday are calling for an end to the military's no weapons policy.
"When our soldiers are unarmed, they will find themselves in a situation like yesterday and in 2009," Sgt. Howard Ray, a survivor of the 2009 mass shooting in which 13 people were killed, told Fox News.         STORY

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