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Guns aren’t banned here you know, you just have to undergo more thorough checks and criteria in order to get them. You can still get them as long as you are sane and have no criminal record. Seems like common sense to me. I’m far less likely to need one because we have far fewer lunatics with access to guns able to go on homicidal rampages with these incredibly powerful force multipliers that give them the capability to slaughter many more people than they could otherwise do if they merely had a knife or some other crude implement. But I digress, if Americans think the freedom to have unrestricted access to firearms without reasonable background checks etc and are prepared to accept the higher murder rate and regular atrocities at the hands of crazies, that is entirely up to you guys as long as you are honest about it.

I am however, as with most people, far more likely to need hospital treatment during my lifetime, especially as I get older and things inevitably start to go wrong later in life. Fortunately, I pay a modest flat-rate National Insurance contribution just like every other citizen which does not depend on how healthy I am, nor how many times I have been in hospital needing treatment. When I lived in the states, a garage mechanic neighbour of ours had a massive heart attack and couldn’t work for a long time and he couldn’t get any insurance, which meant he would have had a massive bill if he had ever been sent to hospital again and would have been made bankrupt and lost his home. He had a wife and kids, and we all had to muck together to donate clothes and toys to give them a decent christmas. I love a lot of things about America, it was a great neighbourhood and the people where some of the most open and friendly I’ve ever met, but this irrational hatred of decent public healthcare is insane. Your private insurance lobby industry has certainly done a sterling job propagandising against it by convincing you how awful the NHS is, even though most of us who have actually experienced it can tell you that it isn’t like that at all. America is a far richer country per capita than the UK and it could well afford to make sure that its lower paid citizens could get decent healthcare if they ever found themselves in the unfortunate position of needing it.

carrying a gun has saved my life at worst or from receiving great bodily harm at best three times

as to healthcare, the poor have welfare and those that don't can NOT be refused care in the ER.

and as you don't sign any of your belonging as collateral so there's nothing they can do about it if you don't pay, people claim bankruptcy every day

where you get taxed for everything right into the poorhouse while you pay for THOUSANDS of muslime families to breed like rats and live in million lb mansions and "Estates"

America had the best healthcare system in the world till the mutt in the whitehut moved in

and even now, i'll STILL take our system over yours any day, but then again you are a subject, where i am a citizen and free man