Decky wrote:I'm a socialist. We tend towards anti imperialism. The British government are illegally occupying part of another country so they can keep their settlers there and stop the natives retaking it and they are doing it with my tax money, I would rather see that money go on infrastructure projects and the NHS than see it used sending the army to shoot catholic civilians and rape catholic women.
And more to the point I was bought up in a fine republican tradition (in both senses of the word ).
I had not until now been aware of Armalite rifles having been imported from America to aid the Provisional IRA , during the Troubles . I had known that illegal gun trafficking has been prolific , but I still wasn't aware of its international scope. Due to its association with mass shootings though , some people in this country think that such firearms should be banned < https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-ar-15-americas-rifle-or-illegitimate-killing-machine/2018/02/15/743e66ca-1266-11e8-9065-e55346f6de81_story.html?utm_term=.e36690f1a329 , https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/us/politics/ar-15-americas-rifle.html > .