Jindal Issues Executive Order Authorizing LA National Guard To Arm Guardsmen

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Jindal Issues Executive Order Authorizing LA National Guard To Arm Guardsmen

<em class="wnDate">Friday, July 17, 2015 10:49 PM EDT</em><em class="wnDate">Friday, July 17, 2015 10:49 PM EDT</em>

 
Bobby Jindal

Today, Governor Jindal issued an Executive Order authorizing the Adjutant General of the Louisiana National Guard to identify and arm national guard personnel at military facilities in order to protect those facilities.
The order states that the National Guard is now allowed to give military guards the means to protect themselves to "preserve the lives, property, and security of themselves and other persons subject to threat of an attack."
The order comes a day after four marines were killed in a shooting outside of a military recruiting station in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Governor Jindal also issued an Executive Order calling for the flags at all state buildings to be flown at half-staff until July 24, 2015 out of respect for the victims of the Chattanooga, Tennessee terrorist attacks.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0PS0P420150719?irpc=932

At least six U.S. states move to arm National Guard offices

Sat Jul 18, 2015 10:43pm EDT

(Reuters) - The governors of Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Indiana on Saturday ordered National Guard members at offices and other facilities to be armed in the wake of attacks that left five servicemen dead in Tennessee.
"It is painful enough when we lose members of our armed forces when they are sent in harm's way, but it is unfathomable that they should be vulnerable for attack in our own communities," Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin said in a statement.
Governors Rick Scott of Florida, Greg Abbott of Texas, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas and Mike Pence of Indiana issued similar orders for National Guard members after four U.S. Marines and a Navy petty officer were shot and killed on Thursday in Chattanooga, Tennessee. One site where the shootings occurred was a recruiting office in a strip mall.
All six of the governors are Republican.