To the editor: Bob Owens describes the recent carnage at military facilities in Tennessee and elsewhere. His solution is to arm the senior officers and noncommissioned officers with handguns at all military installations. ("Chattanooga shooting: Why gun-free zones are dangerous," July 20)
Owens says that “every military recruit has had basic weapons training.” Well, I was in the Army and I had weapons training, but I was never taught to deal with masses of civilians; that's covered in police training.