ORIGINAL: ArmChairGeneral
It was good to see the operation worked out in the end, dead bad guys and live hostage. I'd like to see Mersk and like companies change its policy on handling pirates, currently its policy is to run and hide on the ship and lock the door. Officers should wear side arms ( .45's ) , a quartermaster should control a weapons locker and a couple of .50 cal machine guns should be good enough for pirate defense.
So what happens when the pirates manage to take over a ship with that kind of armament? Adding more guns is a bad idea - that was the US police force's response to the US constitutional right to carry arms and the result was inevitable; everyone became more dangerous and every situation became 100x worse. You do not want civilian ships sailing around with guns on board; self-defense weapons like tazors maybe.
Piracy is the result of economic imbalance - you've got shipping from 1st world nations sailing past one of the poorest countries on Earth. Sort out the problems in Somalia, get a functioning government in place and this problem will go away.