“Each and every boat sailing through the pirate infested waters needs to have a few .50 Caliber machine guns mounted to the deck. Problem solved....”
...and people, aboard, who know how to use them.
Umm, let’s see - pull the big handle on the right times 2, grab the big butterfly handles, push the thumb thingy with either or both thumbs, point loud noisy part as straight at the enemy as possible and don’t let up until the smoking hot coke bottle size pieces of brass stop dropping out of the bottom of the big square part. Is that about right? :-)