Probably to stop the next Benghazzi atrocities or whatever it is the looney right is screaming about lately.
That conservatives think Obama is liberal is mostly a statement about how deranged main stream conservatism has become.
OK. RE: the OP: What the fuck were they thinking!? "Gee, the compound isn't safe after dark. So let's leave it unguarded with all our weapons stored there! What could possibly go wrong!? " Because disarming the populace, socialized medicine, and wealth redistribution are as American as baseball and apple pie, right gulgamet?