The worst part of guns is that you have to use them...
And to use guns in a boat at open sea is pure madness if you ask me. Need an ironclad for that.
We have a saying here in
Turkey; "if a gun is drawn, it MUST be fired..."
When are we going to understand the fact that there is no winner when it comes to guns ?
And when I say guns, I mean all of them, all kinds... An AK47 is not different from a close range small caliber pistol.
I really have difficulties in understanding why some people feel the necessity (not urge-urge I can understand) to carry one or many aboard.
Someone says 600 rounds is less than fair for an AK 47... This is insane... This has nothing to do with crusing/liveaboard/visiting different countries and cultures...
This is simply being afraid of something I can not name yet...
And knowing the next boat to ours could be carrying such ammo, certainly puts me on edge...
My thoughts might seem "naive" to some who read, but come on; the fact that you have the right to carry one, doesn't dictate you have to. What makes you carry one is something else... Not the right, but something else...
Sailing with wife and two
kids; I would never even dream of carrying one...
And this all comes from someone who had experience of firing AK47 (and many others) in the army. (it is compulsory in my country- 15 months)
I also dislike people on the cruising community, who make the stupid mistake of dividing countries they visit as "no
rule of law", "yes
rule of law".
When we visit
Mexico, we might share our individual experiences of how the law worked/did not
work for our individual cases, thus providing an experience pool for other cruisers...