They can not govern it unless the people vote for them. If that happens then that is democracy. If the majority elect a communist government - that also is democracy. The I.R.A. have as much right to fight against an evil corrupt regime just as much as anybody else. If the loyalists can use guns to keep the system in place then the I.R.A. has the right to use guns to change it. Remember, the state was set up because Carson etc threatened violence. The country was divided because Churchill threatened Collins, and Griffiths with war if they did not sign. Yes they do have the right, just as much as the early colonists had the right to take up arms., just as much as any other oppressed people and believe me, the nationalists in the north were oppressed, the government was against them, the police and the b-specials were against them, the whole system that allowed them to be discrimated against in jobs and housing by it's inaction was against them. I imagine you live in the north, can you really say that they were not discriminated against , by Brookeborough who openly declared that he would not have one about his place, by the orange unions in the shipyards, aircraft fcatory, ropeworks, ?. I know that a few catholics were employed in these places but they were very few, believe me. Even the Ormeua Bakery had a sign at their entrance that NO Catholics Need Apply. In Derry city with a massive majotiry of catholics but with an orange city council. You are damn right they have the right. Waiting for the day that the orange order and their cronies in previous governments would have changed things for the betterment of catholics is like waiting for hell to freeze over.