More than anything else, there are fewer bombings today because the Irish dispute was settled through a political agreement. Violent republican separatism and

More than anything else, there are fewer bombings today because the Irish dispute was settled through a political agreement. Violent republican separatism and monarchist unionism are, thankfully, now beyond the pale, for most of the political and social body in both Ireland and the UK today. May it stay so. > The US kills many more people with guns, but it's so passé, old news, let them die. But a bomb, that gets people outraged, 'we have to do something'. The United States has not, in the last century or so anyway -- maybe during Reconstruction -- actually experienced widespread targeted violence of the kind experienced in the UK and Ireland during the Troubles. More than 10,000 bombs exploded, many hundreds killed, many thousands injured. And that's just the bombs, not the shootings etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bombings_during_the_Troubles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bombings_during_the_Tr... Unlike American spree killers, most of these killings were highly targeted political acts. They weren't making a mountain of a molehill, in terms of the violence itself. It was a black mark for many decades for the two islands.