Friday, January 22, 2010

Holy gun sights, Batman!!

Have you seen the news story about the gun sights with Bible verses inscribed on them? Trijicon Inc. in Wisconsin is making gun sights for the US military as well as foreign countries. They apparently are engraving references to Bible verses on the gun sights and have been for years. Well, someone noticed them and started a shit storm about the religious reference. Publicly, the US has to act like they are all fired up about this and how the inscriptions shouldn't have been on there and so on. The first thing I wondered was who is supposed to inspect these things for compliance to the contract? You know the government is probably paying 3 prices for them to start with and should at least look at them occasionally. I sure hope they pay better attention to the critical stuff like jets and helicopters! The bigger issue is that these are Christian references in a world of two extremes: one of "bend over backwards" political correctness and one of trying to kill everyone who isn't Muslim. This whole bit about the sights being used in the Middle East and how it contradicts our "religious sensitivities" is bull crap of the highest quality. Those aren't Christians trying to shoot or blow up our troops! We as a country can't run around trying to kiss everyone's ass because, at some point, we will wind up with poo on our face.

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