10-29-2007
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An AC-130 gunship puttering about overhead would be nice too... 
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Originally Posted by Valiente
Exactly. All the Off-Topic rants on "the right to bear arms" are irrelevent in such a situation. Five speedboats with 25 armed guys come at you at 25 knots, you're only going to piss them off by popping a shotgun at them. Even if you took out 25% by some miracle, you can't outrun them and they will cut off your nads while raping your wife and kid in front of you. Better to not go into harm's way and hope they kill each other in their blighted country, fighting over scraps.
If I was a merchant shipping line, on the other hand, I would be agitating for armed escort. A few .50 cal. deck guns from the modern equivalent of a PT boat would accomplish what no cruiser is equipped or able to do.
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Telstar 28
New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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