Where they waving imitation firearms H?
I have sympathy with any plod / soldier who reacts when faced with a gun wielding potential lunatic.
It is innocent people just out for a walk such as those on 30/01/72 that we all feel sympathy for, those who were shot dead for no reason.
Quite SW, quite - and I was playing Devil's advocate of course.
And no-one in Ireland was ever just out for a walk s. They are always up to some seditious mischief. Tommy doesn't just shoot elderly promenaders for the sake of it. ( they most likely had little republican flags in their lapel buttonholes ).