This video comes from our sister site gCaptain.com and has had a big impact.  This video allows you to feel some of the emotions the crew members are engaged in.

Put yourself on a ship in the middle of the Ocean with nothing around.  Pirates roll up on 2 small skiffs.  You have a large gun and know how to use it.

Would you shoot and kill the approaching pirates?  Or not shoot at them (essentially allowing them to board) and take your chances?

So, would you shoot these pirates?  or & let ‘em board?

 

36 Comments

  1. +5 Vote -1 Vote +1NoNeedForAName
    says:

    Good for them. I would have done roughly the same thing. Although I doubt I would have called for “warning shots”.

    On a side note – those aren’t terribly big guns. Just run of the mill AR-15s.

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  2. +3 Vote -1 Vote +1Bob
    says:

    I’d have no problem shooting to kill

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  3. +2 Vote -1 Vote +1USCG
    says:

    Shoot to wound. It will teach them a lesson they will remember… If they survive

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    • +2 Vote -1 Vote +1NoNeedForAName
      says:

      That’s simply not realistic.

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    • Vote -1 Vote +1Anonymous
      says:

      yeah i think that might piss them off even more haha.

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      • Vote -1 Vote +1LakeTahoeGuy
        says:

        When I used to live in the Bay Area, a police officer once told me, (while he was filling out the police report, I had asked him about the “hypothetical” possibility of me having to protect myself with my .357 Magnum), “whatever you do, don’t wound them, ….dead men tell no lies, …..if you get my drift.”.

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  4. Vote -1 Vote +1tentative
    says:

    I could not shoot a pirate unless it was Davey Jones, or Barbosa, or I guess the bad guys in the new movie…………

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  5. +5 Vote -1 Vote +1jackson
    says:

    shoot or get shot

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  6. -5 Vote -1 Vote +1O'Neil
    says:

    No I would rather get robbed and murdered than shoot someone. Good question though.

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  7. +14 Vote -1 Vote +1Andrew
    says:

    I saw a cat with no tail cross my street today while I was eating cereal before work. We made eye contact and it was nice.

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  8. Vote -1 Vote +1missing out
    says:

    leave em for dead..no sweat

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  9. +2 Vote -1 Vote +1Mathew
    says:

    Dual-Phantoms (silenced). N64 Golden-Eye, Frigate.

    I would shoot to hit (not necessarily kill), but I would aim for more lead in the boat than the ocean.

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  10. +2 Vote -1 Vote +1Nuthon
    says:

    Only if I could have a taxidermist do a realistic mount, so I could hang him on my trophy wall.

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  11. +3 Vote -1 Vote +1NoNeedForAName
    says:

    Anybody who says they’d aim to wound probably has no experience with a gun outside of a video game. Shooting from a moving target, at another moving target, from those ranges on the open ocean, and with a downward trajectory like that – it takes a pretty high amount of skill to even hit your target, let alone pick out a specific body part to wound.

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  12. +5 Vote -1 Vote +1ratherride
    says:

    what a stupid question! Do you shoot them? Are you kidding me?

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  13. +1 Vote -1 Vote +1apolm1
    says:

    why would you let them board? they are trying to do whatever is needed to get what they want aka killing you sooooo ya kill em

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  14. +3 Vote -1 Vote +1NWLoc
    says:

    Yo, check me out!!! I’m gonna rip the sh*t out of this magazine… BANG!!!!

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  15. +2 Vote -1 Vote +1zippy
    says:

    Just one more reason to be in the mountains, no pirates. Oh and yes fire a warning shot then feed the sharks with the pirate parts.

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    • Vote -1 Vote +1shithawk
      says:

      thats why i left that game 3 years ago son! Shred is better than dead. I’d rather lose my life to the hand of the gods than the hand of another man.

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  16. Vote -1 Vote +1I was there
    says:

    no problem with people shooting to defend themselves and the ship. I first saw this on Reddit and there is a good IMA as well with a deck capt. answering questions on this stuff-http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/comments/rxnpa/table_iama_deck_officer_on_a_merchant_vessel_that/

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  17. +1 Vote -1 Vote +1Yep
    says:

    My heart would be thumpin, but that’s better than the alternative.

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  18. +1 Vote -1 Vote +1Boomhauer
    says:

    Fish in a barrel man, fish in a dang ol’ barrel

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  19. Vote -1 Vote +1Zack
    says:

    I wouldn’t think twice. These “pirates” would be long gone.

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  20. Vote -1 Vote +1nick
    says:

    Shoot

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  21. Vote -1 Vote +1Anonymous
    says:

    Well what are the intentions of the pirates? if they are peace loving occupy ocean street pirates, then no I wouldn’t shoot them. If they are take you hostage and possibly kill you pirates, in that case 2 to the chest one to the head.

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  22. +1 Vote -1 Vote +1brian
    says:

    i keep checking back to see if someone makes a case for not taking another persons life. just so i can see the firestorm of retaliation against said dumbass.

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  23. +1 Vote -1 Vote +1Flounder
    says:

    Don’t shoot it if you’re not going to eat it. Have you any Grey Poupon?

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  24. +1 Vote -1 Vote +1pownowkow
    says:

    They are just trying to make money to feed their daughters.

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  25. Vote -1 Vote +1tron
    says:

    Question: would this security crew open fire on the Sea Shepherds? It seems the Shepherds use approximately the same tactics as Somali pirates.

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  26. Vote -1 Vote +1SeaQueue
    says:

    I didn’t realize there was a gun mount for the gopro…?

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