History for July 21

History for July 21 - On-This-Day.com
Ernest Hemingway 1899 - Author, journalist, Marshall McLuhan 1911 - Educator, philosopher, scholar, Don Knotts 1924 - Actor, Janet Reno 1938 - Attorney General of the U.S. (1993-2001) 


Yusuf Islam 1948 - Musician (Cat Stevens), Robin Williams 1951 - Actor, comedian, Jon Lovitz 1957 - Actor ("Saturday Night Live") comedian, singer 


1831 - Belgium became independent as Leopold I was proclaimed King of the Belgians. 


1861 - The first major battle of the U.S. Civil War began. It was the Battle of Bull Run at Manassas Junction, VA. The Confederates won the battle. 


1925 - The "Monkey Trial" ended in Dayton, TN. John T. Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for violating the state prohibition on teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. The conviction was later overturned on a legal technicality because the judge had set the fine instead of the jury. 


1930 - The Veterans Administration of the United States was established. 


1940 - Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia were annexed by the Soviet Union. 


1949 - The U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty. 



1961 - Captain Virgil "Gus" Grissom became the second American to rocket into a sub-orbital pattern around the Earth. He was flying on the Liberty Bell 7. 


2004 - White House officials were briefed on the September 11 commission's final report. The 575-page report concluded that hijackers exploited "deep institutional failings within our government." The report was released to the public the next day. 

After Chattanooga Shooting, Fired Up Rev. Franklin Graham Calls For Drastic Against 1.5 Billion Muslims

After Chattanooga Shooting, Fired Up Rev. Franklin Graham Calls For Drastic Against 1.5 Billion Muslims:

"The problem, of course, is that President Barack Obama refuses to admit that the bulk of terrorist attacks committed in the United States can be directly traced back to Islam.

To this day, for instance, Obama still refers to the 2009 Fort Hood terrorist attack as an “act of workplace violence,” even though the evidence proved him wrong a long time ago.

Graham ended his emotional Facebook post by urging his followers to let their congressional leaders “know that we’ve got to put a stop to this and close the flood gates.”

Stunning Photo Taken During Battle Flag Protests at SC Statehouse

Stunning Photo Taken During Battle Flag Protests at SC Statehouse | PJ Tatler:
The Klu Klux Klan and the New Black Panther Party held separate protests for and against the Confederate battle flag at the South Carolina statehouse yesterday.
The two sides competed for the “Hate Group of the Year” title and from all reports, it looked to be a draw.
NBC News:
About 2,000 people were at the Statehouse at the peak of the two rallies, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Safety.
The department said five people had been arrested after the KKK members showed up for offenses including disorderly conduct, simple assault and breach of peace.
Additional officers were on scene at that time.
No officers were injured, but there were 23 calls for emergency services and seven people were transported by medical personnel, according to the Department of Public Safety.
The temperatures rose to the high nineties in Columbia Saturday afternoon.
The earlier rally, including members of Black Lawyers for Justice and Black Educators for Justice, a Florida organization with links to the New Black Panther Party, began with about 200 people gathered around a podium and responding to passionate speakers shouting, “Black power!”
The two sides hurled insults and racial epithets at each other for about an hour.
And then, a state trooper was snapped assisting an elderly neo-Nazi wearing a shirt with a swastika on it, who was apparently overcome by the heat, up the stairs of the statehouse.
The trooper — Leroy Smith — is black.
What do you suppose those two men were thinking?

Yes, the outrages continue!-----The IRS Scandal, Day 801

TaxProf Blog: The IRS Scandal, Day 801:
Imagine having a vision for your country.
You worked hard to start an organization to promote the ideas and values that you believe can fix our nation.
When you apply for tax-exempt status, which should be a simple matter of paperwork, you face repeated delays and demands from the government that stretch the process across months and years.
Then you learn—not from the government, but from an outside source—that your private information was shared with multiple government agencies, all of whom wanted to “piece together” criminal charges against you.
Imagine being awakened in the middle of the night by a gang of police, shouting and waving their weapons at you. They turn your house inside-out, steal your laptop and phone, then order you not to tell anyone they were there.
All this happened because your political beliefs landed on the wrong side of those officials in power.
This is not a scenario from China, Russia, or Iran.
Welcome to the very real tyranny of modern America.
Think it can’t happen here? 
Just do some reading on the John Doe proceedings in Wisconsin, or the IRS targeting scandal....

A Music Legend Just Dropped The Hammer On Obama With EPIC Rant Sparked By Chattanooga Shootings

A Music Legend Just Dropped The Hammer On Obama With EPIC Rant Sparked By Chattanooga Shootings:

"One of America’s most famous country rock musicians excoriated President Obama for how he reacted publicly after what many believe to have been a terrorist attack in Chattanooga, Tenn., that left four Marines dead Thursday — a mass murder allegedly committed by a lone shooter."

Mark Weiner conviction vacated: Chelsea Steiniger text case finally overturned.

Mark Weiner conviction vacated: Chelsea Steiniger text case finally overturned.:
Three years ago, one of the strangest criminal cases in recent memory began in Charlottesville, Virginia, where I live, when a young woman sent a series of text messages telling her boyfriend that a man had abducted her, followed by a series of texts, allegedly from her captor, taunting her boyfriend with threats of sexual violence.
Her story was strange, and the case was fraught with complications from the get-go, but the accused ended up in prison long after the doubts outweighed the evidence.
This story is bizarre, but it’s not all that unusual: 
Prosecutors can prosecute even the weakest, most clearly flawed cases relentlessly, and innocent people can end up in jail.
This week, after two and a half years in prison, Mark Weiner saw his conviction vacated.
It finally ended a saga in which Weiner was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to eight years in jail on charges of abducting a woman with the intent to sexually harm her.
The story began on a December night in 2012. Weiner, then a 52-year-old man who managed a local Food Lion and attended night classes at a local community college, stopped and picked up 20-year-old Chelsea Steiniger, who was walking from a convenience store to her mother’s house..."
Read on!

What US leaders have never understood about Iran

What US leaders have never understood about Iran | New York Post:
“American rulers have always dreamed of forcing us to change our behavior, and failed,” Iran’s “Supreme Guide,” Ali Khamenei, said Saturday.
“Five US administrations took that dream to their graves.
The present one shall have the same fate.”
Khamenei’s analysis is not far off the mark.
Successive American presidents have worked hard to persuade the Khomeinist regime in Tehran to modify aspects of its foreign policy, so far with no success.
The reason may be the inability or unwillingness of successive US presidents, and a good part of the American political and cultural elite, to properly understand the nature of the Khomeinist regime.
Jimmy Carter believed the Khomeinist seizure of power represented the return of religion to the center of public life.
His administration described Khomeini as “a holy man” and “the Gandhi of Islam.”
Carter wrote letters to Khomeini “as a man of faith to a man of faith.”
He even ordered the resumption of arms supplies to Tehran.
We all know what that did to Carter.
...To admire this regime because of Iranian culture is like admiring Hitler for Goethe and Beethoven and praising Stalin for Pushkin and Tchaikovsky.
This regime has executed tens of thousands of Iranians, driven almost 6 million into exile, and deprived the nation of its basic freedoms.
It has also killed more Americans, often through surrogates, than al Qaeda did on 9/11.
Not a single day has passed without this regime holding some American hostages.
Iran as a nation is a solid friend of America. 
Iran as a vehicle for the Khomeinist revolution is an eternal enemy of “The Great Satan.”
The only realistic strategy for the United States would be to help it stop being the Islamic Republic and become Iran again.
President Obama’s policy, however, points in the opposite direction. 
He has made it harder for the Iranian people to regain their human rights.

Sooo, the big problem is geezers and dopes legally buying guns and killing folks?------Obama pushes to extend gun background checks to Social Security

Obama pushes to extend gun background checks to Social Security - LA Times:
"Seeking tighter controls over firearm purchases, the Obama administration is pushing to ban Social Security beneficiaries from owning guns if they lack the mental capacity to manage their own affairs, a move that could affect millions whose monthly disability payments are handled by others.
...A potentially large group within Social Security are people who, in the language of federal gun laws, are unable to manage their own affairs due to "marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease."
There is no simple way to identify that group, but a strategy used by the Department of Veterans Affairs since the creation of the background check system is reporting anyone who has been declared incompetent to manage pension or disability payments and assigned a fiduciary.
If Social Security, which has never participated in the background check system, uses the same standard as the VA, millions of its beneficiaries would be affected.
About 4.2 million adults receive monthly benefits that are managed by "representative payees."
...But critics — including gun rights activists, mental health experts and advocates for the disabled — say that expanding the list of prohibited gun owners based on financial competence is wrongheaded."

Fox Anchor Left Dumbfounded After Juan Williams Tries to Defend Policy of Military Members With No Guns | Video | TheBlaze.com

Fox Anchor Left Dumbfounded After Juan Williams Tries to Defend Policy of Military Members With No Guns | Video | TheBlaze.com:

 "Ever since the image of the shattered doors to the recruiting center, riddled with bullet holes, with a sign banning guns surfaced on social media yesterday, a huge debate has sparked over whether or not the marines should have been armed.

“These are Marines, everyone of them a rifleman,” Fox contributor Mary Katherine Ham said during Friday’s segment. “They are trained to protect themselves, and they have volunteered to be our sheepdogs, protect the rest of us, and yet we take the means out of our hands to do that. And that just seems like a sin.”

Is Puerto Rico Too Big to Fail?

Is Puerto Rico Too Big to Fail? - US News:
"Stop us if you've heard this before.
Officials are pleading for patience as a debt-stricken locale scrambles to find a solution to its financial crisis, with investors and onlookers wary about broader repercussions.
But this dilemma, in Puerto Rico, lies thousands of miles across the Atlantic from Athens.
And while Greece's financial dysfunction has caught much of the world's focus, Puerto Rico's problems pose interesting questions for the U.S. regarding how it will – or whether it should – help out its territory to the south.
"We might let a city go into default, but not a state. 
A commonwealth is in a slightly different position," says Robert Shapiro, former U.S. undersecretary of commerce for economic affairs.
"But, keep in mind, they're all citizens of the United States.
There is a question of political rights.
Do the people of Puerto Rico have the same right to have the federal government maintain the basic stability of their home that citizens of Mississippi and California do?"
..."They borrowed, they borrowed, they borrowed.
But people were looking at the demographics – declining population, an economy that's slowing.
You sort of had to see the writing on the wall," Peter Hayes, a managing director and head of the municipal bonds group at BlackRock Inc., said in a recent interview on Bloomberg's "Market Makers."...

Our "victimless crime" headline of the day-----Ann Arbor man jailed for luring 15-year-old girl into dog-collar sex parties with wife

Ann Arbor man jailed for luring 15-year-old girl into dog-collar sex parties with wife | MLive.com

Kathryn Schulz’s New Yorker story on Pacific Northwest earthquake: Geologists explain the risks.

Kathryn Schulz’s New Yorker story on Pacific Northwest earthquake: Geologists explain the risks
The last earthquake of roughly magnitude 9 in the Pacific Northwest happened 75 years before the United States existed.
One day, possibly in the not-too-distant future, the Earth’s crust will again convulse in a megaquake. What will happen then will dwarf any natural disaster our country has ever experienced.
This week in the New Yorker, Kathryn Schulz, who lives in Oregon, scared the living bejeezus out of us by describing the aftermath of the coming Cascadia megathrust earthquake in gut-wrenching detail.
Think of the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami that sparked the Fukushima disaster—only the Northwest is nowhere nearly as prepared as Japan was.
A word of caution if you read the article:
If you live in Seattle, you’ll probably find yourself wanting to sleep outside tonight.
Here’s a telling excerpt:
By the time the shaking has ceased and the tsunami has receded, the region will be unrecognizable. Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA’s Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.”
Seattle’s excellent alternative weekly, the Stranger, emphasizes the main takeaways from the story: The earthquake will be really bad, the tsunami will be worse for many people, this event is now overdue, and the Northwest isn’t prepared for it.
So, how accurate is this doomsday scenario?
Did Schulz exaggerate any bits?
Should you start hoarding Tillamook cheese and Black Butte Porter?
Should we start a petition to the NFL to relocate the Seahawks to Omaha?..."

Obama's Statement to Muslims After Chattanooga Shooting Will Make You Physically Ill

Obama's Statement to Muslims After Chattanooga Shooting Will Make You Physically Ill:

"That’s it. No statement about the tragedy that happened during the holy month, no rebuke of religious extremism, and certainly no use of the phrase “radical Islam.”

When the president did eventually make a statement on Chattanooga, he called it “a heartbreaking circumstance for these individuals who have served our country with great valor to be killed in this fashion,” according to USA Today.

One sentence for the four Marines killed by a radical Islamic terrorist, but several hundred words about Eid-ul-Fitr.

If that doesn’t tell you where the president’s priorities lie, I don’t know what will."

Fact Check: The Washington Post on Donald Trump and John McCain

Fact Check: The Washington Post on Donald Trump and John McCain | Sharyl Attkisson:

"Donald Trump appears to have gotten under the skin of not only Democrats, but also fellow Republicans and the news media.
Has that subjected Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, to unfair and/or inaccurate reporting?
An article in the Washington Post today is headlined, “Trump slams McCain for being ‘captured’ in Vietnam.”
The article’s lead sentence states, “Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump slammed Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a decorated Vietnam War veteran, on Saturday by saying McCain was not a war hero because he was captured by the North Vietnamese [emphasis added].”
Is this report accurate?
In fact, Trump’s actual quote is the opposite of what is presented in the Post’s first sentence.

• Discussion
• 1. The Post did not provide context at the outset disclosing that McCain and Trump have been feuding, with McCain characterizing some Trump supporters as “crazies” and Trump stating that McCain graduated last in his class in Annapolis. 

The charged rhetoric continued at the conservative Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa this weekend.

• 2. When a panelist characterized McCain as a “war hero,” the Post is accurate in reporting that Trump initially said McCain is “not a war hero.” But then, Trump immediately modified his statement saying– four times– that McCain is a war hero:

“He is a war hero.”
“He’s a war hero because he was captured.”
“He’s a war hero, because he was captured.”
“I believe, perhaps, he’s a war hero. But right now, he’s said some very bad things about a lot of people.”

• 3. Did Trump say McCain is not a war hero because he was captured? No, not in the exchanges represented in the Post.
• 4. Is the Post’s characterization an accident? 

It would appear not, because it is repeated in the Post’s caption of the video clip, which also states: “Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a decorated Vietnam war veteran, was not a war hero because he was captured by the North Vietnamese [emphasis added].”
Further, in the Post’s second sentence, Trump is quoted as stating of McCain, “He’s not a war hero…He’s a war hero because he was captured,” but the article selectively left out the phrase Trump had uttered in between: “He is a war hero.”

• Conclusion

Trump actually said the opposite of what the Post lead sentence and video caption claim.
The Post might have been able to get away stating that Trump “implied” McCain was not a war hero because McCain was captured, but even that would have been a subjective interpretation since Trump had actually stated the opposite.
It’s true that Trump stated one time that McCain is not a war hero.
But Trump stated four times that McCain is a war hero–and that was not accurately characterized in the article.
For interpreting and characterizing Trump’s true quote in a way that is at best questionable, and for selectively using some quotes and leaving others out, the Post receives Two Little Devils. (Ratings scale at end of article.)
Obviously, all are free to draw conclusions about any candidate or politician. 
But the news media has a responsibility to do its best to report accurately and fairly–even when reporters find a candidate and/or his positions to be personally distasteful."

Anyone seein' a pattern here?-----Two Couples Ambushed By Group Of Men While Walking Down Detroit Street, Stripped Of Clothes And Sexually Assaulted « CBS Detroit

Two Couples Ambushed By Group Of Men While Walking Down Detroit Street, Stripped Of Clothes And Sexually Assaulted « CBS Detroit:


Composite sketches of two of the suspects (credit: Detroit Police)

DETROIT (WWJ) – The hunt is on for a group of men in Detroit who allegedly attacked two couples while they were walking down the street, forcing the male victim to watch as his female companion is gang raped.
The first incident unfolded around 11:30 p.m. Thursday in a well-lit area near McNichols Road and Birwood Street.
The alleged attack happened in a northwest neighborhood just blocks away from Marygrove College.
According to police, a 22-year-old man and his 21-year-old girlfriend were walking along McNichols when they were approached by a group of six men.
The men reportedly forced the couple behind a nearby business where they were robbed and stripped of their clothes.
The group then allegedly took turns sexually assaulting the woman. 
After the attack was over, the nude victims ran to a nearby liquor store for help.
Just hours later, at 2:40 a.m. Friday, another couple was attacked.
A 21-year-old man and his 19-year-old girlfriend were walking in the area of McNichols Road and Pierson Street, nor far from the new Meijer store, when they were approached by four men who ordered them to the ground.
The group then took turns sexually assaulting the woman, forcing her boyfriend to watch.
After the attack, the suspects robbed the couple before ordering them to run away.
Investigators believe the two incidents may be connected. 
Authorities released composite sketches of three of the suspects, although police are searching for several more.
It appears surveillance cameras are in the area but its unclear if they recorded the incidents, which remain under investigation.
Anyone who might have information on the incident or the suspects is urged to contact police at 313-267-4600.

History for July 20

History for July 20 - On-This-Day.com
Sir Edmund Hillary 1919 - Explorer, first to climb Mt. Everest , Mike Ilitch 1929 - Founder of Little Caesar's Pizza franchises, owner of Detroit Red Wings, Chuck Daly 1933 


Diana Rigg 1938 - Actress (Medea, King Lear, The Avengers), Natalie Wood (Natasha Nikolaevna Gurdin) 1938 - Actress (From Here to Eternity, West Side Story, Rebel Without a Cause), Mickey (Mitchell Jack) Stanley 1942 - Baseball Player 


Carlos Santana 1947 - Musician (Santana), Donna Dixon 1957 - Actress (Wayne's World, Dr. Detroit), Josh Holloway 1969 - Actor ("Lost") 


1861 - The Congress of the Confederate States began holding sessions in Richmond, VA. 


1868 - Legislation that ordered U.S. tax stamps to be placed on all cigarette packs was passed. 


1881 - Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn, surrendered to federal troops. (Montana) 


1942 - The first detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, (WACS) began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. 

1944 - An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed. The bomb exploded at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters. Hitler was only wounded. 


1969 - Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon. 


1974 - Turkish forces invaded Cyprus. 


1976 - America's Viking I robot spacecraft made a successful landing on Mars. 


1985 - Treasure hunters began raising $400 million in coins and silver from the Spanish galleon "Nuestra Senora de Atocha." The ship sank in 1622 40 miles of the coast of Key West, FL. 


1998 - Russia won a $11.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help avert the devaluation of its currency. 

Here’s Why Netanyahu Says Those Praising Iranian Nuclear Deal Have Been Proven Wrong in Less Than a Week | TheBlaze.com

Here’s Why Netanyahu Says Those Praising Iranian Nuclear Deal Have Been Proven Wrong in Less Than a Week | TheBlaze.com:

“The Iranians aren’t even trying to hide the fact that they will use the hundreds of billions that they will receive under this agreement in order to arm their terror machine and they are clearly saying that they will continue their struggle against the U.S. and its allies, first among them being Israel, of course,” Netanyahu said.

On Saturday, just four days after the nuclear agreement was announced, Khamenei praised Iranians for chanting slogans at Al Quds Day holiday demonstrations the week before.

“You heard ‘Death to Israel,’ ‘Death to the U.S.’ You could hear it. The whole nation was shaken by these slogans. … So we ask Almighty God to accept these prayers by the people of Iran,” Khamenei said."

Krauthammer Thinks ‘It’s So Insane’ a ‘Phobia’ Has Prevented Authorities From Pursuing This | Video | TheBlaze.com

Krauthammer Thinks ‘It’s So Insane’ a ‘Phobia’ Has Prevented Authorities From Pursuing This | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Conservative political pundit said on the Fox News Channel Friday that “it’s insane” law enforcement doesn’t target mosques to gather intelligence about potential threats to the homeland.

Speaking on the cable-news network’s “Special Report,” the syndicated columnist contended law enforcement was paralyzed by a “phobia.”

Transgender Reporter Issued a Threat After Getting So Upset With a Conservative Commentator on Live TV: ‘Cut That Out Now, or You’ll Go Home in an Ambulance’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Transgender Reporter Issued a Threat After Getting So Upset With a Conservative Commentator on Live TV: ‘Cut That Out Now, or You’ll Go Home in an Ambulance’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Tur conceded that Jenner probably didn’t deserve the award, but said that “being transgender is about the bravest thing you can do.” Shapiro, though, went on to push back against the perceived normalization of the transgender issue.

“Why are we mainstreaming delusion?” he asked, proceeding to push back against another panelist who interjected to say that Shapiro was being insensitive. “Facts don’t care about your feelings. It turns out that every chromosome, every cell in Caitlyn Jenner’s body is male with the exception of some of his sperm cells. … what he feels on the outside is irrelevant to his biological status.”

San Francisco Sheriff ORDERED No Communication With ICE

San Francisco Sheriff ORDERED No Communication With ICE | The Daily Caller:
"San Francisco’s progressive sheriff, Ross Mirkarimi, issued a memo in March barring deputies from communicating with federal immigration agents, the sheriff’s deputy’s union revealed earlier this week.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Mirkarimi issued the memo on March 13, about a month before the sheriff’s department released Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an illegal alien from Mexico who has used more than 30 aliases since first entering the U.S. in 1991 and has been deported five times.
Lopez-Sanchez, 45, allegedly fatally shot 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle in broad daylight July 1. Lopez-Sanchez was in federal prison until March 26. 
At that point, he was turned over to the San Francisco sheriff’s department because he had an outstanding marijuana warrant from 1995.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had issued a detainer request to the sheriff’s department asking to be notified before Lopez-Sanchez’s release. 
The sheriff’s department declined to honor that request because of San Francisco’s sanctuary city laws.
But Mirkarimi’s March 13 memo went even beyond the city’s statute.
In it, Mirkarimi called for “limited contact and communication with ICE representatives absent a court-issued warrant, a signed court order, or other legal requirement authorizing ICE access.”
According to The Los Angeles Times, Mirkarimi’s directive was stricter than the city’s 2013 Due Process for All ordinance.
That prohibited sheriff’s deputies from holding illegal aliens in jail on behalf of federal immigration agencies past their official release date except in cases involving certain felons.
Mirkarimi memo prohibited deputies from communicating to ICE that the department would not hold Lopez-Sanchez."

The Heartbreaking Reality Military Families Are Forced to Confront After Chattanooga | TheBlaze.com

The Heartbreaking Reality Military Families Are Forced to Confront After Chattanooga | TheBlaze.com:

"I care that I will never be able to let go of the fear that one day my husband or my friends will be targeted. I care that this kind of violence is happening in our backyards. I care that nothing is being done to allow our men and women in uniform to protect themselves while in that uniform.

I know they signed up to go into harm’s way for their families and their country. I know they volunteered to be sent to far-off places and defend us from the evils that hide in the darkest corners of this world. I just never expected that corner to be in Chattanooga. Or Fort Hood. Or a Navy yard in Washington, D.C.

They raise their right hand and swear to protect this country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. What good is that promise if they can’t even protect themselves?"

Ret. Marine Colonel: Chattanooga Shows How 'Gun Control Mafia' Leaves Us Defenseless

Ret. Marine Colonel: Chattanooga Shows How 'Gun Control Mafia' Leaves Us Defenseless:
"During a July 16 appearance on Al Jazeera’s America Tonight, Colonel Gary Anderson, USMC (Ret), said the Chattanooga attack demonstrates that the “gun control mafia” has left military personnel and citizens alike in a defenseless position.
Al Jazeera introduced the segment by pointing out that “those who were at the [Chattanooga] recruiting station…were not permitted firearms.”
And they pointed out that “this is standard protocol, not only at recruiting centers but in other [military] facilities as well.”
...We can arm every recruiter, and that will help the recruiter stations in case they are attacked.
We can arm every Naval Reserve Center, every Army Reserve Center, but that’s not the issue.
The issue is, if [the recruiting stations and reserve centers] become hard targets, the other people that own shops and so forth in that strip mall aren’t protected themselves.
I think the problem is really this pervasive gun control mafia that we have in this country, that basically advocates for taking guns away from citizens who could potentially defend themselves, and leaving the only guns in the hands of those who might do them harm.
He said that because of these anti-gun policies, a military facility is not the only soft target. 
“It can be a grammar school, as we’ve seen, it can be church, as we’ve seen so recently.
You can’t protect everyone unless you actually arm the citizenry themselves, or at least allow them–and encourage them–to be armed.”"