I'm troubled by the deployment of armed U.S. Coast Guard boats with .30 caliber machine guns on the Great Lakes and the inauguration of live-fire exercises.
Are relations so bad with Canada that we're going to need to repel Canadian mounties showing up in rowboats to plant their flag on the U.S. side of the border?
Are we going to deploy sonar sensors to detect enemy submarines in Lake Superior?
What about putting a radar base on Isle Royale and reactivating KI Sawyer Air Force Base in Michigan's Upper Peninsula to blow intruders out of the water?
The Great Lakes aren't the problem...the Mexican border is. They should secure that instead of scaring our Canadian neighbors and our own people who enjoy the Great Lakes.
If the Coast Guard wants it's sailors to practice with firearms, then they should deploy them to Florida periodically and help with drug interdiction efforts. That's about as live-fire as they can get without deploying to a combat area.
I don't want anyone I know getting their boat blown out from underneath them while they're fishing and minding their own business.
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