James Stout

Private security characters on, I think it was an Italian cruise ship, fired at pirates who were attempting to board the cruise ship.

It's a lot less uncommon than you would think.

I think we can probably bring that in-house.

I think that would be the goal at that point, right?

Within the greater IHAR ecosystem, Garrison, we have so many automatic weapons.

You don't listen to the, like, Belfed Machine Gun podcast?

The IHAR militia.

It's us and Ted Cruz, and we haven't really agreed on very much other than gun ownership.

Maybe we should talk about when the real reason like PMSCs took off in the 21st century was the rise in piracy of Somalia, right?

Before this piracy had existed, mostly in Southeast Asia, piracy has existed for as long as people going on boats has existed, right?

But specifically piracy of Southeast Asia had before this been more of a like a smash and grab kind of situation, like turn up, take what you can, leave, right?

What was distinct in this piracy that we began to see from 2008 onwards was that pirates were either trying to seize the entire cargo of a vessel, the vessel itself, or to kidnap people from the vessel and hold them for ransom.

I guess the most high-profile case was called the Maersk, Alabama.

Are you familiar with this one?

No.

Okay, that's good, because you get to hear a story.

I don't keep up with PirateNews.org.

They can be messy.

Yeah, yeah.

Lots of overlap between pirates and anarchism.