That a very condescending considering you know very little about me. I spent three interesting years in Coventry when relationships along race lines weren’t great. A couple of incidents of petrol through letter boxs, burnt out cars etc. I met people from ALL sides of the ethnic lines ...
Whereas a pira sticking around in a squady is?
Neither are acceptable but only punishing one side is equally unacceptable. My view is that of an earlier post where the view is that he was sighting the individual forgetting that the weapon was cocked or the safety was off.
FWIW, I have never...
It is very easy to be critical after the fact but sighting a weapon on civvy who was 300m away isn’t very bright regardless of whether the weapon is cocked. However If it was deliberate it would have been a much bigger burst than three rounds would it not.
Immunity for both sides or not at all. Pisses me off that squadies are apparently fair game but terrorist from both side of the divide are not! Mind you we shouldn’t be surprised. Governments have been treating the armed Forces like sh*t all the way back to Oliver Cromwell’s time.
Mind you, a...