wrote:

:I found this site with 12 gage pepper shells for loading into a hand
:held flare gun:
:http://www.ammunitiontogo.com/catalo...12-gauge-speci.
..
:This would avoid buying a "real" gun for defending ones sailboat from
irates. *Thoughts?

If you want to **** them off so badly that they rape you to death this
is probably a good tactic.

Hm, being gay isn't part of the pirate image. :-) I thought rum,
buggery and the lash was the British navy, which some became pirates to
escape. However, these are Somali pirates... "For children, a woman; for
pleasure, a boy..."

The use of nonlethal weapons against those with lethal weapons is
rarely a good idea.

I recall it recently did work; some ship with a sonic weapon
succeeded in driving pirates off with it.

Dennis