BoatBanter.com - Another dozen dead

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On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:29:08 -0400, BAR wrote:

In article , says...

On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:26:48 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" nowayalso.jose.com wrote:

"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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There is no humor in this situation, but it is quite ironic that at a
U.S. Navy installation that is guarded by more more than a retired cop
with a .38, a fellow was able to walk right in and blast away with a
shotgun he might have hidden under his coat. How's that NRA solution
for
school safety looking now?

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I don't know how things are today but access control to all military
bases used to be by armed military personnel, often Marines.
That changed over the years at bases in what are considered "low
threat" areas and access control has been farmed out to civilian
security firms in many places.

I don't know who checks badges and controls access at the Washington
DC Navy base.

Most installations that I've been to now use rentacops. The Marine Base Quantico switches back and
forth. Ft. Belvoir uses only rentacops.

Ft. Belvior used to be an open base. Several areas were guarded with better than rent-a-cops
and they have or had signs posted that said "Use of deadly force is authorized."

There is still at least one area which has its own fence, gate and guards. I've not been in there in
a long time, so don't know if the guards there are now military or not.

Belvoir hasn't been 'open' for a long time, well before 9/11.

Back in the 70's there were several times that the MP's locked down the base. Nobody getting
on and anybody tring to leave had their vehicle searched in order to solve the immediate
crime of someone breaking into a candy or soda machine at the PX complex and stealing a soda
or some candy bars.