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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
dk, given that the piracy zone is literally on the other side of the planet and that any sailors going into that zone would by necessity have to go through other ports to get to the piracy zone where they would have much easier access to purchasing automatic weapons, I can't decide if you're trolling this thread or just throwing up a strawman. This is not a purely American problem by any means. This is an international problem.
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you can choose to consider it a troll or a strawman as you wish. To most people, i'm sure that is the only way they can see it. Much like roachboy states, that the 'pirates' are such bloodthirsty homicidal maniacs out on the ocean that no decent person stands any sort of chance of defense unless big strong government military forces ride to their rescue. But how long has piracy been a problem around the world? how many more deaths or hijackings do you think it will take before any single government chooses to intervene? my guess it that unless there emerges some sort of pirate group that becomes so large and bold to start targeting oil tankers, governments will do little, if anything, to actively patrol the ocean for them. So that leaves private citizens with two choices. don't sail or take your chances.
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
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So, in not turning this in to some sort of 2nd Amendment thread, at some point in time the WORLD is going to have to make a choice.
1) Do we start taking measures to provide for our own protection, or
2) Do we demand that governments around the world add the expense of increasing attack ships and combat sailors to patrol enough of the ocean to protect against pirates?