Gun-toting citizens are showing up at military recruiting centers around the country, saying they plan to protect recruiters following last week's killing of four Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The citizens, some of them private militia members, said they're supporting the recruiters, who by military directive are not armed.
"We're here to serve and protect," Clint Janney said Tuesday, wearing a Taurus 9mm handgun as he stood in a parking lot across from a recruiting center on the west side of Columbus. "What the government won't do, we will do."
Similar posts have been set up outside recruitment centers in several cities around the country, including Madison, Wisconsin; Hiram, Georgia; Phoenix; and several sites in Tennessee, including Murfreesboro.
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Courtesy of TPM:
But the military wasn't embracing all of those volunteers.
Marine Corps headquarters told Texas-based TV station KLTV that while they appreciate the volunteers' support, they ask that civilians not stand guard outside their facilities.
And an unidentified official told Savannah, Georgia TV station WSAV that there is “always some concern about safety for our soldiers and civilians when someone is walking around with weapons."
Don't you just hate it when you get all dressed up in your best GI Joe Underoos and spit shine your metal penis extender and nobody appreciates the effort?
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