Reply #80: I never said they weren't in use [View All]

[Damndifino]

Since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, it has become easy to obtain Soviet weapons. But over here (in the UK) our impression of IRA symbolism has been accumulating over a period of 30 years, and through most of that period the standard arm has been the Armalite. "Shooting" weapons are mostly of symbolic value for the paramilitaries of both sides, since most attacks against the army or the public use explosives.

Anyway, the salient point is whether or not there has been a "victory" of any description in Ulster. There has not. Just decades of useless misery and destruction.