Week before last, Four U.S.
Marines died in the initial attack by Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, and an U.S.
Navy Sailor … who had been injured in the shooting … died a few days
thereafter. In the wake of the tragic
shootings in Tennessee at military facilities in Chattanooga, several governors
are taking matters into their own hands, authorizing military personnel to be
armed.
According to an NBC News report, the governors of Louisiana,
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Florida and Indiana have ordered that full-time
National Guard members should be allowed to carry arms in order to “deter
attacks and allow the ability to protect themselves and civilians in case they
are targeted.”
Oklahoma Gov. Mary
Fallin remarked, “It is painful enough when we lose members of our armed forces
when they are sent in harm’s way, but it is unfathomable that they should be
vulnerable for attack in our own communities.”
Thank God for some adult
leadership in governance, because Lord knows it’s absent at the Federal level!
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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