International law and Title 46 USC regulates our merchant vessels anywhere in the world. There is no right to firearms or reasonable self-defense.
Sarah Brady and her minions has spread their malignant anti-gun plague everywhere including American cargo ships thousands of miles from our shores.
We are seeing pirates taking advantage of those gun laws. The merchant vessels are sitting ducks for all manner of violent crime.
Why must we enable criminals by providing soft unarmed victims everywhere?
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-Thomas Jefferson, letter to his nephew
"Gun Control"
Barack Obama at a recent rural elementary school assembly in East Texas, asked the audience for total quiet. Then, in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands once every few seconds, holding the audience in total silence.
Then he said into the microphone, 'Children, every time I clap my hands together, a child in America dies from gun violence.'
Then, little Richard Earl, with a proud East Texas drawl, pierced the quiet and said: ''Well, dumbass, stop clapping!'
That's really cute, Mr. Anonymous. I'm sure you even put a little though into that. Unfortunately, it doesn't hold water. (pun maliciously intended). Merchant ships were historically fairly well armed. Even the Mayflower was equipped to handle cannon. Despite your unsupported assertions, there is little evidence that armed merchantmen ever caused trade disruption. A container ship with mounted weapons would never be able to put up much of a fight against any sort of purpose built naval vessel, and would not be 'a kind of military vessel.'
I think piracy is probably much less ' practical for the smooth flow of commerce', than people exercising their God given right to self defense.