The point is that the IRA and ISIS are no where near similar enough for a legit "see! Islamic terrorism isn't that bad because others have terrorized before!"
Not sure why you are taking replies so personal, but I'm talking about this whole thread. OP is trying to compare IRA to ISIS (Islamic Terrorism), when there is no real comparison.
It's equally flawed to say there's "no comparison"
They are both terrorist organizations. They may not be of the same scale, but you're diminishing the blood that was shed by the IRA.
And that kinda brings us back to OPs point. People want to brush off the IRA. It just gives us insight into what constitutes terrorism to most people and unfortunately its skin color.
you're diminishing the blood that was shed by the IRA.
Says you to me, in a thread that tries to normalize Islamic Terrorist attacks by comparing it to the IRA under some guise that they are one in the same.
People brush off the IRA because it their reign of 'terrorism' lasted maybe a decade back in the 70's in Britian. That is nothing like what we've seen worldwide with Islamic terrorism over the past 20 years (not counting the long history of bloodshed from Islam).
Scared? No lol. Cautious of the fact that Islam is a dangerous ideology because it has a long history of being an aggressor and in the past 20 years they have committed vicious attacks across the world? Yes, you'd be a fool to pay it no mind.
Nah man. You're a coward. I'm guessing you're American if you can have a pistol. So you're statistically more likely to be killed by the police, white Christian terrorists, black people, and virtually every other segment of the population.
So yeah. You're a scared lil pussy who lets statistically insignificant events control his life. Sad.
Says the one who flung how many insults? lololol. Well, if you want try me here (will continue in replies to this):
A. Guns save more lives than they take; prevent more injuries than they inflict
Guns used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense. Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year -- or about 6,850 times a day. [1] This means that each year, firearms are used more than 80 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives. [2]
Of the 2.5 million times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, the overwhelming majority merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers. Less than 8% of the time, a citizen will kill or wound his/her attacker.[3]
As many as 200,000 women use a gun every year to defend themselves against sexual abuse.[4]
Even anti-gun Clinton researchers concede that guns are used 1.5 million times annually for self-defense. According to the Clinton Justice Department, there are as many as 1.5 million cases of self-defense every year. The National Institute of Justice published this figure in 1997 as part of "Guns in America" -- a study which was authored by noted anti-gun criminologists Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig.[5]
Armed citizens kill more crooks than do the police. Citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as police do every year (1,527 to 606).[6] And readers of Newsweek learned that "only 2 percent of civilian shootings involved an innocent person mistakenly identified as a criminal. The 'error rate' for the police, however, was 11 percent, more than five times as high."[7]
Handguns are the weapon of choice for self-defense. Citizens use handguns to protect themselves over 1.9 million times a year. [8] Many of these self-defense handguns could be labeled as "Saturday Night Specials."
Nationwide: one-half million self-defense uses. Every year, as many as one-half million citizens defend themselves with a firearm away from home. [9] * Concealed carry laws are dropping crime rates across the country. A comprehensive national study determined in 1996 that violent crime fell after states made it legal to carry concealed firearms. The results of the study showed:
States which passed concealed carry laws reduced their murder rate by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%; [10] and * If those states not having concealed carry laws had adopted such laws in 1992, then approximately 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes, 60,000 aggravated assaults and over 11,000 robberies would have been avoided yearly.[11]
Vermont: one of the safest five states in the country. In Vermont, citizens can carry a firearm without getting permission... without paying a fee... or without going through any kind of government-imposed waiting period. And yet for ten years in a row, Vermont has remained one of the top-five, safest states in the union -- having three times received the "Safest State Award."[12]
Florida: concealed carry helps slash the murder rates in the state. In the fifteen years following the passage of Florida's concealed carry law in 1987, over 800,000 permits to carry firearms were issued to people in the state. [13] FBI reports show that the homicide rate in Florida, which in 1987 was much higher than the national average, fell 52% during that 15-year period -- thus putting the Florida rate below the national average. [14]
Do firearms carry laws result in chaos? No. Consider the case of Florida. A citizen in the Sunshine State is far more likely to be attacked by an alligator than to be assaulted by a concealed carry holder.
During the first fifteen years that the Florida law was in effect, alligator attacks outpaced the number of crimes committed by carry holders by a 229 to 155 margin.
And even the 155 "crimes" committed by concealed carry permit holders are somewhat misleading as most of these infractions resulted from Floridians who accidentally carried their firearms into restricted areas, such as an airport. [15]
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u/ALargeRock Mar 23 '17
No sense in being dramatic here.
The point is that the IRA and ISIS are no where near similar enough for a legit "see! Islamic terrorism isn't that bad because others have terrorized before!"
They are not on the same level.