It’s not often I’m jealous of Scandis — I mean, frigid weather most of the time, socialist governments, high taxes: let’s be honest, this is not a place to be sought out by expatriate Americans. (Okay, the women are pretty hot, but you can only have so much sex before… uhhhh where was I again?)
No, that’s not the Swedish Bikini Team — in fact, they aren’t even Swedes, but Finns (Miss Finland finalists 2011).
But there is one reason to be jealous of the Finns, apart from the above:
Finland has announced it will open 300 shooting ranges in a bid to encourage citizens to take a greater interest in national defence.
Under the Finnish constitution, every male aged between 18 and 60 must complete national army service but the government hopes that civilians will keep their weapons skills after the period of conscription with the new range proposals.
Jukka Kopra, the Finnish politician, said: “The present government aims to increase the number of shooting ranges in Finland from roughly 600-700 up to 1,000.
“This is because of our defence model, which benefits from people having and developing their shooting skills on their own.”
Note: not State-controlled/supervised shooting, but individual practice.
And a thousand ranges, in a country that has about 50 square miles of habitable area? [hyperbole alert] That works out to about one range every 100 yards, or a Sako behind every flake of snow.
Plus, they’re practicing to shoot Russians, which makes me really jealous.
Or, as the meme goes:
Tiukat ryhmät, toverit!
Range time, Kim? I think so, in solidarity with our Finnish friends.
When you live next to a restive bear it’s good to have the next generation of White Deaths queued up.
Belya Smert, for all those Russkies shaking in their boots trying to sneak around in the forest with a big, red, “Target Here” sign on their backs.
we should do that in America too.
We could do with another 50 or so ranges just around here in north Texas.
In Southern Commie-fornia, too!
I’d be out of here quicker than Jerry Micelek can fire two rounds, except all my professional licenses are for California, and all my commie relatives, too.
Hakkaa paalle! Or something like that.
As previously mentioned when this image last appeared on these pages, it’s a trick question. There are Finnish snipers in ALL those panels.