The conservative fixation on conspiracy theories raises its head yet a-freaking-gain. No, Fox News mouth-haver supposedly versed in these things and therefore worthy of national attention, President Bill Clinton
did not take away the military's guns:
[Chad Jenkins] replied, “Well, and look at the Fort Hood shootings. We had two shootings now that were mass casualty situations and now the recruiting station. Unfortunately, the executive order put in place by President Bill Clinton back in the nineties took away the rights for service members to carry, conceal, and to protect themselves here in the homeland.”
None of what Chad Jenkins said was true.
And was never true; there was no "executive order," there was a George Herbert Walker Bush-era Army regulation that was put in place during the first months of the Clinton administration with no apparent input by the new president. And it did not ban weapons on bases, as even a cursory look on any military base will demonstrate, but clarified who would or would not be allowed to be armed on bases (security forces, yes; office clerks, no). And the military, being notable experts on the proper use of weaponry, has always maintained tight restrictions on how those weapons are issued and carried—which is why you do not hear the same countless "man leaves gun in bathroom" or "man accidentally shoots three people when he drops his loaded gun" stories that pepper American civilian life.
But no, no executive order, you can still find plenty of guns on bases, and it was not, despite nearly a quarter century of saying so, even close to being a nefarious plot by Bill Clinton. And yet this flagrant lie still will not die, and is still repeated on Fox News, and by blowhard presidential candidates (Trump), and in all the other little pockets of America that get their news primarily via barely intelligible email chains forwarded to them by their uncles. And they'll still believe it another twenty years from now, because thinking it makes them feel good, and isn't that the only point of knowing a "thing?"
And Obama is forever just a week away from taking all your guns, and all the scientists of the world are scheming to make our air clean for no good reason, and there's a secret plan to impose martial law in Texas because the northerners just don't like how damn free those Texans have it. It's always something.