Garda preparedness for mass shootings - Glenties incident (2020)

If i was a betting man i would say Ireland will eventually experience some sort of event like this with much worse outcomes. theres a rage building across Ireland, a culture shift as well. Irish exceptionalism saids things like that don't happen here. Ireland was a backwater for so long and also we had a different type of murdering scum in the RA who killed plenty. we're now like any normal western society. we have one of the lowest spends on justice and police in Western Europe iirc. we're seeing some of the lax attitude play out with the Russian stuff. we only have active patrolling armed gardai cause of the Regency bloodbath. and i''ve definitely seen less of those lads.

Armed Gardai took 6 minutes to get to a man with an axe on the liffey boardwalk which wasn't reported but it was i think 2018/19. a pretty good response time i suppose. however the issue is there is absolutely **** all visible gardai even as a deterrent. a mass shooter would have plenty of time in Dublin to inflict casualty without being hampered by a garda.

Was out in town the other night , Friday and i did not see 1 garda visibly patrolling the city centre outside of a vehicle from my walk from Ranalagh over Summerhill to Ballybough. the only few i did see drove down from fitzgibbon station after some crazed loon stood around screaming and jumping on cars naked for 30 minutes in PArnell street. try do that in some other cities and a swarm of police would get you before you'd got your willy out. Bear in mind you are talking about the city centre not the boondocks.

I've been to places all around the World where active, visible and on foot ,(and armed) police are regular. even small enough towns. Here that would be seen to be too much. too overt, too black and tan or some such nonsense. Policing by consent etc.

thank God its still a relatively safe place here in Ireland. for how much longer, who knows. again i live in Ballybough, theres an edge about. increasing prices, increasing isolation of communities, constant immigration/globalisation and a transient population of migrants (which i don't care, mostly EU but it leads to a different mindset and it changes Ireland for better or worse - see Sweden or read up on what is apparently happening with those deliveroo attacks).

no doubt there will be people saying us speculating is pearl clutching. same sort of people who argue about experts saying the Russian drills are a real concern. we are sleepwalking into the issues. 6 stabbings including a murder in the space of a month last year should have been a fire to light peoples arses about issues. but no it was ignored.

Gun crime in IReland is higher per capita than the UK.