1—No, you are an American. An American of Irish blood. Big difference. Be proud of both, but you are an American. An Irish or Scottish person is someone born and bred in that nation, brought up in its culture.
We roll our eyes over here when people from the US say they are Irish or Scottish or English or German. You aren’t. Its great you love your heritage, but your aren’t Irish or Scots. You weren’t born or raised there. Its culture isn’t yours. The culture of 1700 or 1850 may be, but the one of 2014 isn’t. I have Norman and Flemish blood, but I don’t think I am French or Belgian.
2—As for socialism, there are tens of millions of European conservatives, conservatism has surged back in popularity in the last few years as Europe leans more to the right, including the UK which has a Tory-heavy coalition, and a Tory Prime Minister, and you know that UKIP, a real conservative party, is the fastest growing party in the UK, as similar parties gain traction across Europe. Europe has and is moving right. To say ‘all Europeans are socialist’ is just stupid.
Well one thing of many that differentiates Americans from Europe is that we have a Constitutional Republic and a Constitution. The 2nd Amendment is the law. If any court or even Congress tries to change that and be so insanely stupid as to attempt to go door to door and collect guns a major revolution would break out instantly. In the UK and othercountries like Ireland and Scotland you just handed them over. Now you are all at the mercy of your socialist tyrannical goverments.
What poor Liam Neesam does not understand because he is not American is that the 2nd amendment has nothing to do with the right to hunt and only secondarily about the right to defend yourself from crime. Its about the right to defend yourself from a tyrannical government. It appears we are headed that way and fairly soon.