SS Gabrielle Giffords Christened As Navy’s First Gun-Free Warship

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http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/06/uss-g ... -gun-free/
MOBILE, Ala. — Seeking to honor a retired congresswoman and 2011 shooting victim in the most considerate and respectful way possible, the Navy today christened the future USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10), a first-of-its-kind, gun-free warship.

“Having this mighty warship be 100% gun-free not only helps to honor its heroic namesake, Gabby Giffords, but it also helps the Navy to steer clear of promoting a culture of violence,” said Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, who reportedly lobbied hard to get Congress and the Secretary of Defense on board with leaving the Navy’s newest addition to the fleet completely defenseless.

“Once commissioned and put into service,” Mabus continued, “this vessel will truly embody the Navy’s new motto of Semper Modestis— always considerate.”

“We have this whole new generation of millennials joining the Navy and becoming sailors on a daily basis, and most of them don’t even like guns,” he said. “So it’s important we listen to their concerns and do what we can to adapt to them.”
Mabus also said that going gun-free with the Giffords was a huge cost saver, and that much of the money saved on armament for the vessel was able to be redirected to a vegan-friendly galley, unisex uniforms for the whole crew, and numerous “safe spaces” throughout the ship — places where sailors can go to relax and decompress whenever they feel overly-stressed by the rigors of life at sea.
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What makes it even funnier is that given the insanity of "progressives" it's not entirely implausible.
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Great!! Now I won't be able to concentrate at work today!!! "rlol"
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I now need a new keyboard.....
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If there are no guns, it's not a war ship.

It's a target...
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Abraham wrote:If there are no guns, it's not a war ship.

It's a target...
Haven't you heard...guns or no guns, there are only two types of ships, submarines, and targets. :evil2:
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Funny stuff, give it a few more years, it will be true for some ship...

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This ship should be sent to the waters off the coast of Somalia to protect civilian ships from pirates.
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I fume when I think of all our service members who either never returned, or came back mangled, physically, emotionally, mentally.
If anyone deserves warship named in their honor, it would be these brave man and woman who sacrificed so much.

As far as a gun-less "warship", that's another doozy altogether. Given the so called leadership, it isn't any wonder. Fish rots from the head down.
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parabelum wrote:I fume when I think of all our service members who either never returned, or came back mangled, physically, emotionally, mentally.
If anyone deserves warship named in their honor, it would be these brave man and woman who sacrificed so much.

As far as a gun-less "warship", that's another doozy altogether. Given the so called leadership, it isn't any wonder. Fish rots from the head down.

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dhoobler wrote:This ship should be sent to the waters off the coast of Somalia to protect civilian ships from pirates.
Too late...you must have missed this:
UPDATE: Since this story first appeared, Giffords has reportedly been hijacked at gunpoint from its pier at Austal USA’s shipyard. The City of Mobile Police Department is asking anybody with information about the theft to contact the department’s Crime Stoppers line at 251-555-7000.
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VMI77 wrote:
Abraham wrote:If there are no guns, it's not a war ship.

It's a target...
Haven't you heard...guns or no guns, there are only two types of ships, submarines, and targets. :evil2:
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:banghead: :ack: not the Navy I knew. puke!!
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VMI77 wrote:Haven't you heard...guns or no guns, there are only two types of ships, submarines, and targets. :evil2:
I thought submarines are classified as a boat not a ship. :biggrinjester:
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rtschl wrote:
VMI77 wrote:Haven't you heard...guns or no guns, there are only two types of ships, submarines, and targets. :evil2:
I thought submarines are classified as a boat not a ship. :biggrinjester:
A rose by any other name doesn't change the fact that all those objects floating on the surface are targets, a fact even more relevant now then when the phrase was first uttered. "rlol"
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I got an idea, make it run point during a Naval Operation into enemy waters.
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