Irish history is, well, interesting, to say the least. It’s a country that doesn’t do well with subjugation, unless they’re subjugating themselves. For centuries, invaders have come and found that the Irish people aren’t exactly docile individuals. The fact that they also invented whiskey may or may not play a role in this.
So, it’s unsurprising that there’s unrest there. Considering I well remember IRA car bombs going off all over the UK, the term “unrest” and Ireland go together in my mind like peanut butter and jelly.
Earlier this week, a Sudanese immigrant tried to decapitate a man in the middle of the street. It made headlines all over the world for the absolute brutality of the attack, and it’s the latest example of how European immigration policy is allowing dangerous people to come in and bring their third-world barbarity with them.
As it stands, it’s already a tense situation involving some of these “immigrants” in various countries, but this was too much for many Irish people. As a result of what happened, the country is rioting.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.” While I’m not excusing rioting, either here or abroad, neither was Dr. King. The whole of that quote starts with him saying that it’s not enough to just condemn the rioting he was seeing, though a lot of people ignore that part.
In Ireland, a lot of people feel unheard. They don’t like the direction their country has gone, but the ruling authorities don’t actually give a damn about their feelings, and so they witness the same thing we see all over the rest of the continent, where so-called immigrants walk around decide the rules of Irish society don’t apply to them, sexually harassing women, grooming children for sexual preditation, assaulting and/or killing innocent people; all while the authorities protect these monsters and the people are powerless to protect themselves.
You see, the people are disarmed.
Ireland, like most other European nations, has strict gun control laws that basically make it impossible for anyone to have a gun they could use for self-defense purposes. They trusted the government to protect them from the evil of the world, but instead, the government brought the evil in and then acts as a shield. No, not everyone who immigrates to a Western nation is evil by any stretch of the imagination. I know far too many who are good, decent people who just wanted to become Americans, and one must believe that it’s true throughout the rest of the Western world.
Still, the gun control thing exists, and those who don’t want to assimilate to their new homes are still shielded, while the people who trusted their governing authorities to protect them fail.
It’s not surprising that a particularly brutal attack on a Belfast street riled people up. The fact that it was another example of how there is no protection for the Irish was made abundantly clear, and the truth is that the Irish government has little to fear from its disarmed population. The riots are a response to being ignored by the state.
Had someone been armed when the attack happened, the results might have been different. Rather than a brutal attack that shocked the world, we’d have a case of a good guy with a gun stopping a horrific attack. We’d have the grooming gangs or other violent monsters having to consider that their barbarity might have been accepted back home, but now they face being shot and killed rather than being treated as if they’re not really responsible.
Gun rights would likely have not just prevented the attack, but also prevented many of the other assaults that have served as a thousand papercuts to the Irish public.
“But if people could get guns, the attacker in that case might have just shot his victim instead.”
Yes, he might have. He might have found the means to get a gun and used it instead. However, let’s also recognize that while someone being shot is terrible, it doesn’t match the barbarity of trying to cut someone’s head off in the middle of a city street with a knife. While it would have been upsetting to everyone, I don’t think it would have hit quite as hard with the general public.
The Irish government has ignored its citizens, coddled people who are undeserving of such treatment, and gotten away with it because they have nothing to fear from the populace. Monsters roam the streets of places like Belfast and seek to act as if the laws of man have no bearing on them and they, too, feel have nothing to fear from the people of Ireland.
If the Irish had embraced gun rights, I suspect that not only would there be no attempted beheadings in the streets, they’d likely have a government that seemed to actually give a damn about what they wanted at least some of the time.
And if it didn’t, well, there’s a reason our Founding Fathers preserved the right to keep and bear arms. Ireland could embrace the whole “My Little Armalite” mentality once again if it only had the Armalites.
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