Violence is now the first option

You reported assaults on transport staff ('˜Concern over hundreds of assaults on Translink journeys,' September 26).

Before the Troubles violence was the last option in a dispute.

Now it is the first option.

The resort to violence is the collective guilt of the paramilitaries who institutionalised violence.

Alan Dunwoody, Belfast BT5

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