northern ireland was the focus, not the republic.
the ira did disband.
Unfortunately, all the IRA has done in recent times is become an organized crime outfit. They did not disappear as a terrorist organization as you suggest.
we won against england without guns.
Of course, there's that whole
War of Independence thing when they did use guns. The Anglo-Irish treaty would not have come about if the war had not been fought, the English would have simply crushed the opposition.
Less fortunate than those in Ireland are those in Zimbabwe and Sudan, who do not have the good fortune of "winning without guns." You see, because they are being slaughtered by their government and they are defenseless to stop it. Were it that they were armed, they could defend themselves against the death squads of their governments. Also less fortunate are the people of South Africa and other nations there who suffer mugging, rape and beatings every day because they are not allowed to have firearms to defend themselves.
But to hell with all those people, right? We've got it good, our government isn't trying to kill us and comes to our rescue when we're attacked, so why should we care about them.
At least some people are starting to get the point that
gun ownership is a human right.
and um.. i had to mention a new point, terrorism and communism are not the same. the idea of communism is quite noble, they just havnt found many good leaders yet. jus thought id point it out, gun enthusiasts seem to really hate the whole communist thing.
Terrorism has been used to maintain power in every communist state that has ever existed. They are not the same thing certainly, but they are so closely related that one seems to necessarily follow the other. Not one communist state has grown and flourished the way that free nations have. On the continuum between communism (complete state control over an economy) and capitalism (free market economy), the prosperity of a nation can almost directly be predicted based on the model it follows. The old European nations of France, Germany, Sweden and others that have embraced socialism are stuck in 1970s growth patterns and their people, under the burden of high taxes, are drowning in debt and unemployment.
The more involved the government is in providing services that the free market should supply, the more involved that government is in the day-to-day affairs of a citizen's life. It is a blatant affront to one's freedom to live as they see fit.
I've been a gun enthusiast since I was 21. I've been a freedom enthusiast since I was 8 when I used to carry around a copy of the Bill of Rights in my pocket. It was love of liberty that brought me to guns, not love of guns that brought me to liberty.
the economic boom is drawing to a close due to inflation rates. thats just capatilism for you..
You're right, that is just capitalism for you. Free markets go through fluctuations and cycles. The money that moves through those markets collects in places for awhile, but never forever, because without the flow of that money the system ceases to function.
Consider the alternative, where in socialist countries the economy stagnates under the weight of onerous regulations and taxes and the people have less and less purchase power as their tax rates climb higher and higher. Meanwhile, the welfare class only continues to grow because their dependence on the state ensures the ever growing amount of money that it can justifiably collect.
im young and im trying to type fast. please dont make fun of my typing skills, it proves nothing.
Your typing ability isn't the only thing being impaired by your youth. I imagine you are in high school or college and still under the full influence of leftist indoctrination that you received there. Fear not, keep an open mind, question what you've been taught, do your own research, and maybe one day you will snap out of it.