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"The maritime unions, shipping companies and the International Maritime Organization all agree that ship's crews should not be armed," says Capt. George Quick, vice president of the International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots, based in Linthicum, Md.

I think I may have spotted the problem.

"It would only escalate the situation The [Somali] pirates are pretty well funded, and they'd just get bigger weapons."

Well which is it? Either the pirates are worse than "dirt poor", as the MSM keeps telling us so we feel sooorrry for them, or they are well funded. It can't be both.

[TNMountainMan]

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