By John Hudson, The Cable @ ForeignPolicy.com, April 7, 2014

[....] After U.S. Army Specialist Ivan Antonio Lopez killed three troops and wounded 16 others last week, Republicans on Capitol Hill began calling for new legislation to allow servicemembers to carry concealed weapons on U.S. bases. The measures are strongly opposed by the Pentagon, which says they would be costly and do nothing to improve security at bases.

"Some of the top reasons are safety concerns, the prohibitive costs of use-of-force and weapons training, qualification costs, and compliance with various weapons screening laws," a spokesman for the department said.

But on Capitol Hill, a number of GOP lawmakers say the current system is broken and if more Fort Hood personnel were armed last week, Lopez would not have been able to kill and injure as many as he did [....]