Will link to my response below: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2862467 The military quelled the LA Riots, which is the direct comparable. Northern Ireland was a

Will link to my response below: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2862467 The military quelled the LA Riots, which is the direct comparable. Northern Ireland was a decades long political/military issue, not about lads looting TVs. Not a good comparison.