The Case for Unarmed Ships

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Crews have held pirates off with Molotov cocktails, crates of rubbish and oil drums. They’ve electrified handrails, sprayed attackers with high-pressure fire hoses and simply kicked the pirates’ rickety ladders overboard.

But owners of ships plying the pirate-infested waters off Somalia’s coast have balked at having firearms onboard…(click on the title for the rest of the story.)