Northern Ireland's Unrest And Gun Control

Tom Knighton writes about "Ireland [sic], Unrest, and Gun Rights: How Gun Control Played a Role in This Week's Events." Knighton's basic argument is that the mostly peaceful protests we are seeing in Northern Ireland would not have happened if the UK government actually listened to its people. He writes:

In [Northern] 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. 

He also argues that if the citizens of the benighted UK had an actual right to self-defense, including being able to carry and use firearms, none of the unrest we are seeing would have happened: the Sudanese migrant that sliced up a man's face in Belfast and attempted to decapitate him may well have been shot and killed; ditto for the Sikh that stabbed Henry Nowak to death. Knighton explains:

    Ireland [sic], 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 [for that evil]. ...

    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 [sic] government has little to fear from its disarmed population. The riots are a response to being ignored by the state.  

Unfortunately, besides confusing Northern Ireland for Ireland, Knighton fits into that part of the political spectrum where he doesn't care whether white people go extinct; that we should still accept migrants even if some are evil, explaining: "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." One wonders if he would give his child a bag of candy knowing that some of the candy is poisoned, arguing that it is okay because much of the candy is perfectly good.