"If you want to go to Ireland, go everywhere. You are 1000 times more likely to get run over by a car than to suffer harm at the hands of the paramilitaries."

That's a statement by Lox Brendy has linked to with approval in his above post.
The correct figure for the years from 69-98 would have been 2 instead of 1000 (the statistics are easily found on the web) and there have been years in which there were more deaths due to paramilitaries than to cars.
Both Brendy and Lox have strong opinions but they like to overstate their points.

Wolfgang

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