"You are merely advocating discriminate cold blooded murder. You engage these suspected pirate vessels with the likes of a 4.5” gun and you are going to be killing innocents by the score. Take a look at the actual facts of recent captures and interventions. They are stack full of tales of these vessels containing captured hostages, crews of Somali fishing vessels, dhows and whalers who have been forced at gun point to run the ships, families of said crews are often on board as well. That doesn't even begin to cover the terrible prospect of misinformation and misidentified ships."
Pr00ne
OK, agree in some respects - and the Marines have been going onto the mother ships, capturing them and releasing the hostages (generally the crew of a ship).
How about the "mother ship" with Pirates on board is then sunk in the middle of no where.