Armed Citizen Guarding West Side Recruiting Center

Following last week’s attacks at military recruiting facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee, veterans now are standing guard across the country.

In Winchester, Virginia, a single man armed with an AR-15 stood outside of a recruitment center from morning to evening the day after the attack.

They’re not allowed to have them at recruiting centers.

The Career Center is located at 6125 University Drive, in the shopping center with Phil Sandoval’s and Burlington Coat Factory.

“If there is an ounce of common sense in this nation, there should be change”, Woodard said. “I’m still appalled that they have to lock their doors while they’re in there”. Additionally, residents have brought food and water for the volunteers as they stood outside in the heat and a local Papa John’s even sent over free pizzas.

“Oh, people tooting, waving, and I’ve had people come by and say, ‘Thank you.’ I’m like, ‘OK, I didn’t wash your vehicle, ‘” Wright said when asked how receptive people have been toward it.

That’s raised a lot of debate in recent days since the Chattanooga shooting.

“That is private property and as long as the shopkeepers or customers of that building do not have a problem with them they are OK to be there and we have not received any calls to dispatch regarding them”, Norville said in an email to The Daily News Journal.

One man, armed with a.22-caliber rifle and a.380-caliber Smith & Wesson was outside of a Prairie Township, Ohio, recruitment center Monday.

The group members said they coordinated with local law enforcement about their plans and said they were met with gratitude. “They’re trained to go fight for our rights our constitution our way of life and they can’t defend them self here on our soil?”

There have been similar sights across the country in Alabama, Tennessee and New Hampshire, where other vets are protecting their fellow brothers and sisters.

“Because it’s something we as Americans should be doing”, she said. In Wooster, several off-duty sheriff’s deputies were volunteering their time to protect the recruitment center there as well.