France Needs Men With Guns to Protect Its Ships

France will allow men with guns to protect its shipping fleet.  No ship with an armed security team has been hijacked.  A French ship was recently hijacked and France seems to want to protect its own tankers in order to have a secure oil supply.  In other words, real practical considerations force them to drop the moral preening over the deployment/use of guns.  Of course, euphemisms abound, they can't actually bring themselves to say "guns".

"We will allow recourse to private teams capable of complementing the navy's missions," Ayrault said in an interview with Ouest France regional newspaper. "There has been a strong appeal from shipowners and we have heard it."