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were in the immediate aftermath of the second for Hood shooting and as always
in situations like this we're now trying to understand what happened
why it happened and how we can prevent similar shootings from happening in the
future
many the arguments are hearing both from the left and from the right or the ones
you always hear after mass shootings like this
and the pro-gun advocates seem to have settled on
this the base where you're not allowed to carry your guns around all the
soldiers are not harm at all times that's why it happened
only they had all been armed perhaps this would have happened or so many
wouldn't have died
and no I could give you my opinion it why I believe that's ridiculous but
let's pull in the big guns so to speak
we've got retired colonel died job jack Jacobs
who explains why you think that is a ridiculous argument this situation that
existed at Fort Hood the other day
in a circumstance in which everybody has weapons but could very easily
result and probably would have resulted in the norm this
mass fratricide in you would have this all the time arming everybody in a
civilian
the a situation like at Fort Hood
would result and a terrible terrible tragedy larger than this one
the assumption is the shooter values his own life
more than he does carrying out what he's gonna carry out
and therefore he's not gonna do it if everybody else is on
complete nonsense we saw with motorists for example he killed himself
and the large majority of men shoes do exactly the same
to now that we didn't have obviously been you could watch the entire a
interview there but he had been arguing with a guy who although he has no
not experts like doctor graham's has been peddling this these theories for a
number of years more than a decade
that I don't is an economist eggs that I am sorry
get what that doesn't mean he doesn't have anything to say about guns are only
but the former Medal of Honor winner Jack Jacobs there I think that he knows
what goes on in a military base how they would be likely to respond to mass
shooting at something a little better than economists perhaps
so I use in ok I'll check when I was at MSNBC with a good relations a really
like great guys funny goes around though always
sass and people also and of course on our
I yes that's right home and any
he obviously has vast experience in this and later in that segment for so the guy
was trying to interrupt me sick
I'm in need you to be quiet for a little bit I would rather the room I didn't
know this because he's a commander he's a colonel
and any said look we've dealt with this for a very long time
is with military and we have a lot of guns but K
and we know that it said terrible idea
to or everybody because you know among other things what happens when a body so
shooting
any you've got a bunch a people carrier have one another in its cast
and it's the exact opposite of what the military wants his order right here
and and saying a wall it does not help
when you have commanding officer to senator Tony what to do
and everybody's on like it's just that recipe pronounce that everybody
everybody who has per
better or worse is that with the military does has been trained to use
weaponry
so there is a tendency when you're in a at a military base
I'm guessing having never ever spent the night at one that that
in fact you are trained to use those things that an impulse
whether it's the first impulse or not it's an impulse that can happen so it's
it makes all the sense in the world the wooden is that everybody armed and older
I feel like with a story like this you get the same arguments over and over
again over again like now we have shootings almost on a daily basis these
Mashu
things happen more and more often and you know it's it's frustrating because
there never seems to be any type a resolution right you have one side of
the aisle calling for more guns in order to combat the issues that we're seeing
right now
and then you have the other side that uses logic and reasoning in size
hey you know what more guns in this type of environment is going to lead to more
violence more people getting killed more chaos
and okay so what is the outcome of all this going to be because we can continue
reporting on this story
over and over again I guarantee you in the next month or at least the next two
months
there's gonna be a similar stories similar talking points you know
resolution so what happens now that's what I want to know
well i'm for Sudan's that is argues absolutely not right
right they tried the the weakest
so gum reform they could possibly imagine
just the federal background check check plus for the couple who both because
mention a solo dancer democrats assisted in couple impose their
it was the you literally could not imagine a weaker peace over
in a loophole that they insist Obama insisted upon because
they thought that would at least feast with those they get that
you know right now there's some other people's for those levels not Bieber for
joe Manchin but some other people's for those little
said you know I'm not really this is not really what I want but
for the good passing background checks were gonna do even added
and at that point ninety-three percent of Americans had agreed that we should
have
federal background checks ended failed anyway
so looking I get on democrats all the time but in this case
I mean what we want to do brubaker it's a fair point that they can tweak in the
field bill any
further right and then it would be literally non-existent
and it obviously can't pass so
I and by the way you say like maybe another jarring event
leads but we had charlie bit average or event this is the second
Fort Hood shooter i cant im 100 meeting new mass shootings
in the same place over and over again and and nothing apparently will jar this
congress
outlets complacency with guns the only thing is really changes that these giant
events are no longer all that jarring
right because they become commonplace the fact that Wikipedia
that separate entries from multiple Fort Hood shootings is ridiculous