"If every person has the right to defend – even by force – his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize…a common force to protect these rights." ~ Frederic Bastiat, The Law (1850) In July 1997, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) declared a unequivocal cease-fire as a precondition to being represented in multi-party negotiations on the constitutional future of Northern Ireland. After months of delay, Sinn Fein, the so-called "political wing" of the IRA, joined talks in Belfast's Stormont Castle. The resulting Good Friday Agreement created a new … Continue reading Should the IRA Be Disarmed?