Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Why doesn't the military simply move out of shopping malls?

These folks are constitutionally correct. If the military is not allowed to carry self-defense weapons inside the country then others do have the right to perform that important measure. 

A couple of things can happen. The high visibility will prevent attacks, but, it could also prevent customers from visiting the mall. The high visibility could only embolden others to form their own 'enemy' militia and hasten any armed conflict. Of the high visibility could simply prove to be a comfort to folks and there won't be anything that happens and it will prevent the formation of gangs with guns. 

But, these folks are legal and they are performing a valuable service. 

July 21, 2015
By Eric Levenson


It was a quiet afternoon (click here) at this unassuming strip mall not far from the main commercial strip in Manchester, New Hampshire, which includes a Chuck E. Cheese’s and a Hobby Lobby. But the sidewalk in front of one specific building was crowded with men holding guns. 


There were nearly a dozen of them, a mix of some law enforcement officers and military veterans. It started with four men on Monday morning, they said, but had grown to 15 of them working in shifts as the days passed. The place they had come to protect was outlined in bright red letters in a sign posted above their heads: Armed Services Career Center.


“The enemy knows these are soft targets,” said the man with the tattoo, whose name is Stevie D, told Boston.com, “and we’re here to make them hard targets.”...