Kill 'em All

The US Coast Guard wants to create 34 live-fire zones in the Great Lakes which will be permanent, live-fire shooting zones for training on 7.62mm cutter-mounted machine guns that fire 650 rounds a minute at more than 4,000 yards. Isn't that just wonderful?

As if this mismanaged, misplaced and failed "war on terror" from the Bush regime isn't quite ridiculous enough, Rear Admiral John Crowley Jr, commander of the Coast Guard District for the Great Lakes, said "The Coast Guard has looked at an increased terrorist threat since 2001." I don't know when or if something might happen on the Great Lakes, but I don't want to learn the hard way."

So another knucklehead trots out the hollow "terrorist threat" cliché so that a bunch of coasties, who have no real business firing machine guns in the first place, can target practice in the Great Lakes? Jesus Christ, let's hope there is some sanity there somewhere...Comments?

10/31/06