| Jihad Comes to Pennsylvania's Shooting Community |
[May. 9th, 2007|11:36 pm] |
You may have heard the story of the Fort Dix Six. Six people arrested in a plot to attack the Fort Dix army post in New Jersey. As it turns out, they were training here, at a local Game Commission public shooting range.
This is not one of the ranges I frequent regularly, but I do frequent some of the other ranges in the area. I suspect they picked this range because it's not well used. I find it amusing that the main thing the local person interviewed in the story I link to remembers is that they "were lousy shots" and "didn't clean up their mess", or something along those lines.
The interesting thing this is highlighting is just how poorly defended most domestic military bases really are. Despite popular notions, an army base isn't an armed camp. The only people typically permitted access to weapons on an army base are Military Police, and they are typically only armed with side arms. Soldiers are only permitted access to their weapons as part of a training exercise. I am quite shocked to discover my local rifle and pistol club meeting probably has a higher density of armed persons than Fort Dix!
If one lesson is to be learned from this, it's that there's no such thing as front lines anymore. It seems we're poorly adapted for this type of asymmetric warfare. |
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