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    CP wrote --   
      
   > Methods exist, such as thumnbprint control required to fire, or a locked box   
   requiring double thumb prints to open.   
      
      I can see it now, some bad guy is prowling around in someone's home   
   intent on mischief and the owner has to go through all that to protect   
   himself.    
   Meanwhile the bad guy is locked and loaded ready to do damage without a   
   second thought.   
      Far more news is made by someone making a mischief than one using a gun   
   for self defence.   
      Its like a car, again.  There's no news in thousands of drivers going   
   about their business with no problem.  It the one who is involved in an   
   accident that makes the news.   
      
   > > About the only ones who did were security of some sort, shore patrol, etc.   
   >    
   > This wasn't a round of tour you all did at least once?   
      
     The one time I did SP was when they were short handed and volunteered.    
   The only person in our group of about 20 was armed, a senior enlisted man who   
   was regular SP.     
     The other guys in SP, even regulars, were armed only with a baton and   
   mine was made of balsa wood.  :)   
     Of no one (other than us) knew who had a effective baton or not.   
     The baton was deterrence.    
        
   > Are the Seals a separate program within the USN who are separated from the   
   main Navy & trained with a greater intensity like the Marines?   
      
     No need for a sidearm on a ship.   
      
   > His main job was escorting supply boats across the Atlantic.   
      
      A brother was in the Coast Guard for supply ships in the Pacific.     
      His ship carried whatever was needed somewhere.  One time it might be   
   soap, another TP.  He was killed in January 1945 when they were carrying ammo   
   and something happened with the ship blowing up in the harbour at   
   Guadalcanal, with all hands lost, save fou   
      I was named after him, five years and two days later.   
      
   > I think it really sucks that both your houses are partisan.  On 6-Jan, 2021   
   during the coup   
      
      Getting a bit close to modern politics there.   
      Joe   
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