Now they have to decide is Jethro a threat or a well meaning yokel?

How sad is it when untrained nuts with guns are guarding well trained soldiers? Looks kinda silly?

They should arrest anyone who approaches with a weapon.

I'm shocked that armed MP's aren't guarding more military installations. I was dismayed when private contractors started guarding the army base near me.

The problem is that most recruiting centers aren't actually federal property, and are simply rented facilities or offices in strip malls. They're not "on base". Legally, soldiers are flat out prohibited from acting as guards off base (that's a law enforcement duty, and soldiers can't engage in off-base law enforcement duties under Posse Comitatus), and they have to comply with state laws when they're carrying off base for other reasons (except for a whole slew of exemptions that mostly have to do with moving between bases and training). Unless there's a declared emergency and the governor has approved it, American soldiers have no more or less right to carry firearms in civilian areas than you or I do. In states like California, where loaded open carry is flat out banned, soldiers would face the same legal consequences for arming themselves in recruiting centers that we would face if we armed ourselves in a grocery store. The state legislature would need to amend state law before it could happen.

And that's not a bad thing.

I expect nothing less from them

the population as the 2nd requires we do and place them in militias.

These are LITERALLY children in adult bodies.

They should NEVER be ANYWHERE near a gun.

How do they propose to stop terrorists from entering recruiting offices? What will they look for? Will it be (1) Middle Eastern appearance, (2)Islamic appearance, or (3) Muslim appearance

I mean, otherwise, what would be the point of having them? They are pining/dreaming for the day when they'll become the heroic "good guy with a gun" and gain instant celebrity status, hence the need to have a gun with them at all times in all locations, being helpfully accommodated by gun-nutty politicians.

If there is paranoia around, there you will find the paranoid-loving, self-loathing, gun-toting "militiaman" SuperZero.

Because nothing says we love the military than being unwelcome and uninvited armed "volunteers".

But isn't this typical of the gun lover, this delusion of grandeur? It really is a sickness.

People like that should automatically go on a domestic terrorist list.

of safety, than strip mall store fronts.

this fellow looks like a good recruit candidate....

Militias despise the Federal government. Has anybody told these idiots that the Defense Department is part of the Federal government? JADE HALM!!!! BEN-GHAZZZI!

on the web site of the Keene (NH) Sentinel yesterday. Given his physique, I wondered how long he might last against the bad guys.