everyone should be able to shoot everything.

[Captain NightWolf]

This is actually a very good debate...as we all know, there are far, far worse games out there that are incredibly brutal and violent...and what's even worse is that many parents still buy these games for their kids...yes kids... what's worse is that lil 10yr olds, etc go to mommy & daddy and say "buy me this for XBox or w/e console" and they do it because the console is the new babysitter of today...

We as adults have the knowledge to know what's right and wrong, and can distinguish fact from fiction whereas kids, even thought they should know better by now, can also still be influenced...the thing is to teach them what we already know...it's not real life, it's a game...

Now, as for this game...we've all seen the movies, we've seen that while yes it is a Big D movie there is still violence in it and yes we do see soldiers firing their bayonets at Pirates...we saw Jack Sparrow pull his gun on Will Turner, we saw Jack shoot Barbossa, heck we saw Jack's father Captain Teague shoot someone...and we saw Beckett pull a gun on Jack as well...

While the Pirate's Codex is "merely a set of guidelines", they still for the most part honor it as much as they possibly can...which is why we should honor the game as it is and not change it...we have plenty of things to shoot at with our guns...and I'm sure that if Disney ever wanted to up the level of realism then they would add it to the game...

Plus if you think about it, weapons of that time were terribly inaccurate...yet in this game we have the ability to hold steady and charge up before firing...in real life that would not be...

I think that while it would add a bit of realism to the game, for now I think we should just let it be...