Unprecedented ... Gun Control

And I don't mean in America.

KABUL, Afghanistan — A tense visit to Afghanistan by Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta got off to an alarming start on Wednesday when a stolen pick-up truck sped onto a ramp alongside a runway at a British military airfield and crashed into a ditch as Mr. Panetta’s plane was landing.

Mr. Panetta was unhurt...

 

 

 

Obama Administration Tells Marines to Leave Weapons Outside Tent For Panetta Speech

 

 

 

In a sign of the nervousness surrounding the trip, a sergeant major abruptly told the Marines gathered to hear Mr. Panetta in a tent at Camp Leatherneck to get up, place their weapons — M-16 and M-4 automatic rifles and 9-mm pistols — outside and return unarmed.

The sergeant major, Brandon Hall, told reporters he was acting on orders.

“All I know is, I was told to get the weapons out,” he said. Asked why, he replied: “Somebody got itchy, that’s all I’ve got to say. Somebody got itchy; we just adjust.”

Normally, American forces in Afghanistan keep their weapons when the defense secretary visits and speaks to them....

 

 

Comments

[Tom Glennon]

Perhaps Mr. Panetta read the Department of Homeland Security Memo that listed returning veterans as potential domestic threats. Just following the Commander in Chief when he said, “You can't help but be proud of them generally.” Generally? I guess he is only sorta, kinda, sometimes proud.

[yeshiva son]

I just don't understand this. Was he scared they were going to shoot him (???)

[scp]

How much do you want to bet that this was a statement to [whoever], to the effect that "See, we da stoopid widdle pwogwessive dimocwats don't wike'em any mowre than yoo doo." I just wish that--"in a gesture of goodwill"--he would have let the TALIBAN handle security at the event. (Oh, do us all a favor...) Meanwhile..."Back in the U.S., back in the U.S., back in the U.S.S.A.": http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE80408V20120105?sp=true and http://www.google.comsearch?q=firearms+sales+spike (United Socialist States of America -- How do you like that name?)

[Yael]

The whole thing is nuts. If you accept the premise that Government is their god -- http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/03/government-is-their-god.html -- then of course they would turn everything else upside down and inside out as well. That's the only logic to it that I can imagine.

[garvey price gun]

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