'Shipriders' to fight pirates

This to me is ridiculous ! You would think with the Pirate problem as it is that the countries involved would make an easy exception ! Let the weapons used to fight the pirates stay on board ! Let the Shipriders shoot to kill any pirate They need to , to defend the vessel the are protecting ! The world needs to get back to the days where the bad guys had less rights than the good guys ! And the protection of the good guys were held to a higher standard than those of the bad guys !

the straits times
NAIROBI (Kenya) - THERE'S not a warship for miles, a small pirate skiff
is speeding toward you and there's no way the creaking tub you're on
can outrun the bandits.

How long do you wait before you shoot? It's
just one of many possible dilemmas facing an increasing number of
private security companies who offer armed escorts - known in the
industry as 'shipriders' - from Somali pirates.

But legal problems abound for ships that carry guns. The first
hurdle is making sure the countries where ships embark and disembark
the weapons will allow them to do so - a legal nightmare in corrupt
Middle Eastern ports with terrorism problems.

Then there's the
issue of which law applies onboard the ship if a weapon is discharged:
the shooter's nationality, the law of the country whose flag the ship
is flying, or the territorial waters of the country the ship is in.

In
at least one case, a private security consultant said, an armed team
had rented weapons from the Djibouti government then was forced to drop
them over the side of the ship to avoid illegally importing them into
the country where they were due to disembark.

The consultant asked for anonymity because he did not wish to compromise his business.