Argh, Matey, but ye be welcome to start one if ye like!...............
Posted on 12/02/2008 5:16:45 AM PST by cll
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Is there a Pirate Ping List?
In the Gulf of Mexico? Absolutely!............
Argh, Matey, but ye be welcome to start one if ye like!...............
Try as I might, I just don't get this statement.
Moral of story - don’t go anywhere you can’t bring your sidearm.
Sure, if you get into a gunfight, you might not win and you might die. On the other hand, if you don’t have a gun you can’t fight back, so it’s more likely that you *will* die in that case.
“Hey, honey, why don’t we this year take a cruise of the Somali coast?”
An oxymoron if there ever was one.
If the attacker didn’t carry firearms, he wouldn’t be much of an attacker, would he?
The Achille Lauro was hijacked at sea. The savages threw an elderly jewish man in a wheelchair overboard.
If I recall, we were about to capture the dogs when Italy refused to allow us to capture them on Italian soil.
I see a potentially rich cruise offering:
"Join in the fun!, Cruise the Indian Ocean with us and thwart a real pirate attack! Passengers are encouraged to bring multiple firearms, and plenty of ammunition, as we may be lucky enough to have some "interesting" target practice at sea."
A gold mine, I tell ya.
Sign me up.
But note that there ain’t an insurance company in the world that will write that business. Much of the gun-phobia is dictated by insurance giants.
Reagan and Ollie North got 'em eventually. Those were the days....(sigh)
You're not thinking like a government apparatchick. PRIMARY PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT IS TO MAKE SURE THAT NO ONE OTHER THAN GOVERNMENT HAS ANY POWER AT ALL. Arms represent power. Arming non-government ships empowers those ships and crews to SUCCESSFULLY defend against pirates. Too much of that going on and people might get the idea that all of those taxes that are extorted from them really aren't for their good, but simply to fatten the government's coffers and line the pockets of the bureaucrats. At this point every good apparatchick will see a red flag and defecate out any lie no matter how preposterous to avoid anyone other than government being able to take effective action.
A half dozen 20mm auto cannon, three on each side of a cruise ship, would turn pirates into crab food. There is NOT an unlimited supply of pirates - just guessing there are probably not more than 500 - 1000 active. Once those have been killed the seas get safer.
if i recall don’t they skeet shoot on cruse ships? If so how about 100 long barrel rifled shotguns with sabot slugs. They site in at 150 yards. Those slugs will absolutely go through a boat. Let the passengers have some fun. Don’t forget to lead them. PULL!
The Twentieth Century saw a brief historical respite from piracy, primarily due to the work of the British Navy in the Nineteenth. With the decline of the British Empire, piracy is once again resurgent.
Until well into the 1800’s, merchantmen were routinely heavily armed. The UN and other international organizations have proven effectively worthless in stemming piracy. In many countries, (e.g., Nigeria and Malaysia) port and naval authorities are often in cahoots with pirates. The old Imperial Navy would have hung the lot of them. Today, about the best anyone can hope for is to outrun them once in a while.
The current situation is what happens when rule by lawyers replaces the rule of law, with hard men enforcing the law.
Not that I'm aware of, although my guess is that these days such a list would be rather busy. Please go ahead and do it if you're up for it, however...it would be a great service :-)
Thank you also for linking to the thread from yesterday.
You are welcome.
Considering the fact that the pirates already carry AK's and RPG's, this statement is just stupid.
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