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Somali pirates captured four more ships and took more than 60 crew members hostage in a brazen hijacking spree, while the American captain who escaped their grip planned to reunite with his crew and fly home on Wednesday to the Unites States....
Somali pirates take 60 hostages | smh.com.au

So we have the safe return of one US citizen granted that he comes from a very wealthy nation but the future of these other sixty, many from Egypt and the Phillipines whose government's agencies lack the precision and stealth of the US marines makes me question what needs to be done with these Somali bastards so that all 20,000 ships who use this route annually can do so in safety.

We only hear of the successful kidnapping attempts however there have been 78 attacks this year alone.

Something more effective needs to happen to solve these acts of piracy. Perhaps NATO fly-overs blowing up any unidentified vessel or mandatory laws that boats departing ports must have liscenced security or a better gun supply for self-defense.

I'm amazed that in this day and age with all our technology we cannot protect ourselves from a few wanton criminals equipped with measly hand grenades and beat up AK 47's.
 

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There's no way to control these Muslim animals.
 

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These guys are pesky aye

But it's still pretty romantic and exciting imo. Another swashbuckling adventure around the horn, I say! GJYAAR
 

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There's a fucking easy way to solve this problem, it's called allowing merchant vessels to carry small arms.
 

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I will get rid of them like I get rid of some IDF soldiers.
You wouldn't even try.

Think of Somalia like a wasps nest. Full of angry little monkeys running around with AK's with no governing body or police force to control them. They can take a few shitty speedboats out and take over a giant ship and get a $2m ransom. Maybe some special forces come in and kill a few pirates, but back on the mainland there are twice as many ready to take their place.
 

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to get rid of a problem like this "humanely" is gonna be impossible...literally...well thats my opinion anyway..

so guess we gotta keep on hearing reports like this..=[[[
 

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The problem is that merchant ships arent supposed to have any arms at all, not even pistols or whatever, and most nations won't let armed ships into their harbours. If the UN got off its ass and made it legal for ship crews to carry rifles or something this wouldn't be much of a problem at all.
 

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The problem is that merchant ships arent supposed to have any arms at all, not even pistols or whatever, and most nations won't let armed ships into their harbours. If the UN got off its ass and made it legal for ship crews to carry rifles or something this wouldn't be much of a problem at all.
the USA allowed their citizens to carry guns

and look where that got em..
 

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Im surprised it took the US as long as it did to sniper the cunts holding that captain?

Obvs it was feasible and easy to do. Why try and negotiate it? More patrols in the area. Helicopter gunship the fuck out of pirate vessels. Problem solved. Even dumb shit somali (obvs not as dumb as the internation community as a whole lol) wont continue doing it if enough of them get blown out of the water no questions asked.
 

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JaredR said:
Something more effective needs to happen to solve these acts of piracy. Perhaps NATO fly-overs blowing up any unidentified vessel or mandatory laws that boats departing ports must have liscenced security or a better gun supply for self-defense.
Typical Israeli way of doing things. Works fine until you accidently blow up a school, UN compound or cruise liner.
 

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the USA allowed their citizens to carry guns

and look where that got em..
YEAH A MASSIVELY INDUSTRIALISED AND PROSPEROUS NATION WITH ABOVE AVERAGE STANDARDS OF LIVING ETC NOT TO MENTION FREEDOM

good going you stupid yellow fuck
 

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Every cloud has a silver lining.
In this case: At least they didn't take 61 hostages.
 

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Seriously that is such a stupid argument though. We had a whole massive thread about it, and I'm not going to get into it again, since arming regular citizens is a lot different from merchant vessels in international waters. All I'll point out is that Switzerland has practically universal gun ownership.
 

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Seriously that is such a stupid argument though. We had a whole massive thread about it, and I'm not going to get into it again, since arming regular citizens is a lot different from merchant vessels in international waters. All I'll point out is that Switzerland has practically universal gun ownership.
yEaH AnD Lo0K WHeRe tHAt GoT SWiTzeRlaNd!!!!1 :spzz:
 

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So i'm guessing you guys have NEVER complained about america?? EVER???


Whats the number of americans with no healthcare???

How much of all wealth do the richest 10% of americans own??

On average how much less do american women earn compared to men??

How many americans live in poverty??


(lol i got those questions from a LESS than reputable source)
 

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