Reply #25: If I ran a shipping company traveling through that area,

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I believe I would equip each of my vessels with three or four of these and hire their crews to travel with us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZQR3RjXXno&feature=rela...

Can you imagine what this thing would do to one of those little piss-ant motorboats? Sharks would get there and go, "Huh. There's nothing big enough to eat here."

And when anyone raised the issue that it's in violation of international shipping regulations to arm merchant vessels, I would counter that piracy is also against international shipping regulations, and as long as pirates are abducting and holding crews of merchant vessels, I will continue to so arm my vessels, until the current piracy epidemic has passed. In light of the extraordinary circumstances, international regulations are superseded by my right—and indeed, obligation—to protect the safety of my crews.