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I was watching "WWII in Color" last night (can't remember if it was on the Military Channel of History International - I switch between them and watch two at a time quite often) and one episode about Iwo Jima had some pretty initeresting parallels to this thread subject. It seems that towards the end of the major hostilities, and the island had been declared "Jap free" by the top brass, all personele (unless on active guard duty) had been required to turn in their ammunition. Due to being practically unarmed, we lost another 50+ guys to a band of Japanese that had been hunkered down waiting for their last chance to do some damage and die for their emperor. My only guess is that in cases such as this is that the greater fear is the possibility of quite a few battle fatigued guys snapping and shooting imaginary enemy attackers.

I don't really see the practicality in allowing every uniform on the base carrying live firearms, but do think there should be many, many more armed personele. Maybe the military needs to come up with their own version of "chl".