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“Urged Not to Use Private Armed Guards in Persian Gulf”
Right. Let the muzzie scum blow your ship up. How far away are the cops?(military guard ships)
in other words, just lay back and enjoy it, don’t bother protecting yourselves.
An armed society is a polite society. That applies everywhere. The best way to deter piracy is to kill a bunch of pirates.
Who writes these advisories? What force do they have (e.g., do insurance companies use them as an excuse to not pay?)
Are they crazy?
Perhaps we should urge banks to avoid having vaults as the risk of armed robbery rises, or maybe take airbags out of cars as the risk of traffic accidents increase.
“Armed guards are not the solution – all you need are more eyes and ears looking at all sides of the ship especially the rear when passing through those waters.”
Great idea...That’ll really stop ‘em...
They should haul 10 US representatives on each ship.
It is never good to let the bean counters set the rules.
Gun free zones. Has anyone thought about trying that in our schools? I mean, it’s got to work right? The bad guys won’t be allowed to bring guns!
Best proof yet that there are at least some of the incidents that were false flags. The big money and State actors don’t want their expensive operatives turned into floating corpses by private security personnel that aren’t players in the game of “lets you and him fight”.
Are they saying don’t defend yourself because the Iranians may not like it? They’re not supposed to like it. Not a good message. That means the Bullies or pirates have won.
Sure. Let the Muslims just blow you up! What utter fools
Wouldn’t break my heart if someone started a business selling CIWS platforms to these businesses.
Had to go way down into the article to see who was issuing the warning. Protect yourself your way Guy, and let the commercial shipowners protect their property the way they see fit.
This crap sounds like when the govenment used to tell hostages to follow every command of their captors. What rational person wants to be unarmed when help from any government navy is HOURS away.
The only corporate is a dead pirate. Any trouble, give ‘em the old number 6.
The warning makes a ton of sense, since the likely adversary isn’t a pickup team of Somali pirates. There is no way a private security force armed even with .50 cal machine guns can stand up to the level of force a nation state like Iran can bring to bear, using air- and sea-launched missiles. A single cruise missile could do a lot of damage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Sea_Isle_City
We can count on Joe Biden to arm each ship with a double-barrel shotgun.
What is Lloyd’s opinion?
How is this any different than telling a woman being raped to “just lean back and enjoy it”?
I wouldn’t take a canoe through that region without a SEAL in the canoe with me, and a Mark V SOC with a full squad of SEALs following along.