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Family Of Pensacola Shooting Victim Calls On Government To Change Rule Banning Guns On Military Bases

Emily Zanotti
Family Of Pensacola Shooting Victim Calls On Government To Change Rule Banning Guns On Military Bases
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The family of one of the victims of last Friday’s shootings at Naval Air Station Pensacola is asking the U.S. government reconsider a rule that bans members of the military from bringing their legally owned weapons onto base.

Fox News reports that the parents and brother of Joshua Watson, a United States Naval Academy graduate stationed at the Pensacola base told Fox & Friends Tuesday that they believe that Joshua would still be alive if he had been allowed to be armed while attending classes to become a pilot.

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