Marines reportedly dead in shooting attack at Tennessee Navy facility
07-17-2015, 08:10 AM
Quote: (07-17-2015 08:05 AM)trian1 Wrote:
Quote: (07-17-2015 01:21 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:
How does one get close enough to military facilities to kill people inside? From what I understand, he wasn't also a soldier or recruit that could be let inside. Did he climb the fence or something?
These were military recruitment offices in strip malls (Hence why all four branches had offices next to each other). By their very nature, they a set up no differently from an insurance salesman's office. They are designed to have people walk up and say, "Hey, I want to join."
However, unlike an insurance sales office in TN, they are designated "gun-free zones." So the military members trained to handle firearms who were there are prohibited by law to bring guns to the location or wear a sidearm...
The first one was a military recruitment office in a strip mall. But after shooting between 25 and 30 bullets there and not killing anyone, he hopped in his car and drove 7 miles to, what was being reported as, a military base. There he rammed his car through an unmanned gate, which just looked like a 6 foot tall chain link fence and started shooting people in the parking lot. That is where the 4 people were killed.