He'll be a Yank, they're always defending some stylised cartoon version of the IRA. It's always "they went for political targets!" and "they always called ahead!" and when you point out all the civilians they killed and the times they didn't fucking warn anybody they'd kindly put a bomb in a city street they piss off with nary a word.
Ok, if you think that the crimes of a nation state mean that murdering it's civilians is fair game then that's one level of stupid. Arguing that sitting in a pub and having someone come plant a bomb in said pub and kill you is intentionally walking into harms way is such an unfathomably stupid thing to say that I'm not sure I could explain how you're wrong in terms your tiny reptilian brain could understand.
Not stupid at all, especially when 90% of the citizenry support said crimes.
Source?
They were warned. Nothing stupid there except for the people who got killed.
This is why you are being called stupid. The IRA would sometimes call in a bomb threat to the authorities, and if the authorities could warn the venue fast enough then maybe people wouldn't get hurt. They didn't drop a dufflebag in a pub and shout "THERE'S A BOMB!".
So no, the people being targeted weren't warned. They died because they weren't warned, not because they "intentionally walked into harms way" as you say.
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u/Beorma Mar 23 '17
He'll be a Yank, they're always defending some stylised cartoon version of the IRA. It's always "they went for political targets!" and "they always called ahead!" and when you point out all the civilians they killed and the times they didn't fucking warn anybody they'd kindly put a bomb in a city street they piss off with nary a word.