Remind Brit commentators that Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom. How did gun control measures work there? Also somebody remind Piers Morgan that the US Congress does not have any members who belong to a political party that specifically reference the AR-15 in one of there most famous slogans. The UK has five members of Parliament who do. I guess they forget this famous speech,
“Who here really believes we can win the war through the ballot box? But will anyone here object if, with a ballot paper in this hand and an Armalite(AR-15) in the other, we take power in Ireland?”
The UK political party is Sinn Fein, and they have 5 MP’s in Westminster and many, many more in the local Northern Ireland Assembly. Guys like Morgan act like this part of their recent history never happened.
Actually, Northern Ireland has the most relaxed gun laws in the UK. Handguns are not banned, and it is the only part of the UK where self-defence is a valid reason for applying for a firearms certificate (meaning you don't have to join a gun club and go target shooting now and again in order to provide that as a justification as in the mainland)...
‘Remind Brit commentators that Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom. How did gun control measures work there?’
And we will remind American commentators of the fact that less people died as a result of terrorism in NI (in fact NI and the British mainland) by all terror groups in the 25 years of the ‘The Troubles’ than were murdered in just ONE american city in just ONE year (such as Detroit, NY Chicago)....
Anyhow, another UK poster has already explained the NI gun laws.