Britain is poised to allow merchant ships formally to carry arms for the first time since the Second World War in a dramatic effort to tackle the escalating threat of international piracy.
Merchant ships could be armed to tackle pirate threat - Home News, UK - The Independent
More than 700 seafarers are being held hostage by Somali pirates at any one time according to the Greenwich Maritime Institute. "If two jumbo jet loads of Westerners were being held by hostage takers, the international community would do something about it very quickly," said its director, Professor Christopher Bellamy. "But because many of the seafarers themselves are from Third World countries, the same sense of urgency is lacking."
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I for one, am all for people to have ways to defend themselves.
Water guns and sound waves are cool and all, but seriously, you can blow a pirate's brains out a lot easier with a bullet.
Gimme the bullets, please.
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