2010-03-14T01:22:00Z http://smokeymillerblog.info/comments/atom.aspx Quick Blogcast tag:smokeymillerblog.info,2009-06-15:2166362 Anonymous 2009-06-15T19:25:34Z 2009-06-15T19:25:34Z I'm quite sure there is a diplomatic reason for why the freighters go about unarmed (even without small arms). I'll speculate two: an armed vessel is treated by other countries as military when in fact they aren't. Secord, and more important, when the crew starts fighting back, you give the pirates cause to give up on taking hostages and simply kill the crews. You pointed out the casualties, but forgot to mention more freighter crewmembers would die than pirates.<br /><br />It's the ships/cargoes the pirates want, not the crews. If the crews resist, the crews will die. Not a good solution in my mind.