Yanks + Guns = Major Fuck Ups

Yanks with guns kill another person. Not an interesting headline because it's too commonplace. This morning the Marines, otherwise known as a bunch of "trigger happy cowboys" were found guilty of the unlawful killing of Terry Lloyd, the ITN jounalist. It is likely that the lawyers will be pressing for the trial of the soldier and his commanding officers under the Geneva convention for murder. But what we have to remember here is this is one person, there are hundreds who have been killed in Iraq by these trigger happy cowboys, though we pay them little regard as they are Iraqis. Whole families have been killed at checkpoints by soldiers brought up on a culture of violence and let loose with high powered weapons to play out their macho dreams.

In their own country near 29,000 people were murdered with handguns between 1979 and 1997 and every now and again somebody runs amok in a McDonald's or school. hey guys do you think you'd like to give up your guns, they don't make you any safer. And when you do go soldiering you have no idea of how to do this properly. Shooting at minbuses and family cars, shooting at people with their hands up ain't soldiering but they are the actions of trigger happy cowboys.