[maggief]

Colin Freeman, Sunday Telegraph on CNN:

No move to add armed guards on sailing vessels.

Americans would favor ... insurance and costs a problem ... and a pirate could get killed. (paraphrasing)

[shoutingandpointing]

Did anyone else just hear the FOX News (radio) report that “. . .the ship is carrying emergency food aid to Kenya?”

Speechless.

[hoosierham]

You realize our own truck drivers are forbidden weapon by DOT regulations ? TRuckers are robbed at truck stops ,loads are hijacked,etc. But the driver is denied the means of self-defense and risks loss of his job and prosecution if he protects himself.AS do workers in many factories or other businesses.

About the only worker who can have a weapon is the owner of his own business.Lawyers,insurers,and "safety" experts all collude to pass laws severely penalizing firearms,knives,and they are even now going after the large metal flashlights as something which must be eliminated.

Few people realize just how successful the socialists have been in denying and villifying self-defense.