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A single 50 cal. is a solution to piracy. Modern pirates are very poorly armed; they're just attacking ships which have mostly been stripped to a single pistol
by randallsquared 18y ago
A single 50 cal. is a solution to piracy. Modern pirates are very poorly armed; they're just attacking ships which have mostly been stripped to a single pistol through law or policy.
- ibsulon 18y agoSupply and demand will solve that, if profitable enough. Further, the current navies would have little interest in protecting these micro-countries being competitors as they are.
- randallsquared 18y agoSure, there's always a point at which it's profitable for criminals to take my stuff. The idea is to make sure I have enough protection or enough consequence-generation to offset the potential profit. I'm just saying that the vast majority of current pirates are poorly armed, and thus it's not hard to make piracy unprofitable on the level of an individual vessel or platform. It's not a permanent solution, but as that and other solutions become available, the totality is a long-term solution.