'Tony lives in England. Open daylight muggings are common in London. My brother's roommate got attacked in broad daylight in or around a subway, beaten and robbed. Similar attackers.'
I hate to interupt you lot patting yourselves on your collective backs for how few violent assults take place in the US with some facts, but here I go:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_ass_percap-crime-assaults-per-capita
You're just ahead of Britain for assaults per capita and way ahead of most of Europe. In murders per capita you are way ahead of Britain:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita
And in murders with firearms you are getting close to being world leaders with 134 firearm murders for every one in Britain!
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir-crime-murders-with-firearms
It's pretty obvious which country is more dangerous.
Yeah, Britian is so safe, the law wants people to hide under their beds or lock their bedroom doors when they have a burglar in their home. Here, we shoot their asses.
No it's not. Most violent crime...especially murder by a criminal wielding a handgun takes place within a very well defined demographic. If you remove black on black crime (usually a black teenager shooting another black teen) our violent crime rate shrinks considerably. Where I live it all but disappears.
I don't recall anyone saying we don't have crime or assaults. I do recall FReepers pointing out that 30 people running away from six thugs who were beating a man to death for coming to their defense are cowards.
Yeah but these happened in broad daylight.We have more gun crimes because tada, we are allowed to have guns. In England, the only citizens with guns are the criminals.