Hegseth makes path for easing restrictions for weapons on installations.

Good. An armed society is a polite society.

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Good. An armed society is a polite society.

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I feel like you have had different experiences than I with junior enlisted and good judgement/weapons on post. Typically they don't mix well

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I feel like you have had different experiences than I with junior enlisted and good judgement/weapons on post. Typically they don't mix well

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A 2LT with a compass could get more people killed at once.

19 year olds are shitty with weapons when they're drinking, but we still make them gunners on M1s, give them automatic weapons, put them behind mortars, have them load JDAMs on carriers, etc. Just give the safety brief harder, that'll do the trick.

If you can't be trusted with a weapon on or off duty you shouldn't be in the military.

You do realize that it's not their weapon, per se, it's the Army's or the Marine Corps. They are responsible for it, but they use it at the pleasure of the Army or Marine Corps or any other branch of the service. So thus, it's not their weapon .

Thousands of Junior Enlisted types with weapons in an unsupervised environment......what could go wrong?

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I would allow NCO's to carry (E4 or higher).

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I could buy into that.