In Ireland, new legislation gives...

...homeowners the right to use firearms to defend themselves from intruders.

The police association of superintendents and inspectors, the AGSI, stated that “the current situation, which legally demands a house owner retreat from an intruder, was intolerable".

It’s what amounts to a “castle doctrine”. Meanwhile in North Carolina antigun legislators are holding our castle doctrine bill hostage in committee in the sure and certain knowledge that should it reach the floor it will become law. What does one have to do with the other? Nothing really, except in Ireland where they have no acknowledged right to bear arms, they get it. People have a right to self-defense. To bad certain Democrats in the North Carolina Legislature can't figure that one out.