To: Mr. K
from what I’ve heard it is illegal for merchant ships to be armed.
Pretty stupid huh?
Sounds like what the dems want for us as citizens, to be unarmed and defenseless.
9 posted on
12/25/2008 8:23:47 AM PST by
Joe Boucher
(An enemy of Islam)
To: Joe Boucher
OMG is that true???????
Ships are not allowed to be armed??????
THAT explaings a lot
11 posted on
12/25/2008 8:27:37 AM PST by
Mr. K
(Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
To: Joe Boucher
from what I’ve heard it is illegal for merchant ships to be armed. Illegal where though? Which country's laws would they be breaking?
Gun free zones don't work. But at least they don't have to be beer bottle free.
12 posted on
12/25/2008 8:28:27 AM PST by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Joe Boucher
"... it is illegal for merchant ships to be armed."Piracy is illegal too, right?
24 posted on
12/25/2008 9:55:36 AM PST by
Redbob
(W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
To: Joe Boucher
Sounds like what the dems wantThis idiocy comes straight out of the Bush administration, who have been in charge for only about 8 years now.
To: Joe Boucher
I wonder if this provision goes back to the memory of 1940, when the Germans launched attacks on Norway from merchantmen?
There have to be exceptions to iron-clad rules if the rules aren't valid any more.
37 posted on
12/25/2008 3:41:59 PM PST by
GAB-1955
(Kicking and Screaming into the Kingdom of Heaven! (USCG Aux))
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