The size of your inductive leap from the particular (a single murderer) to the general is quite breathtaking.
When dealing with matters of life and death,not leaping from the particular to the general gets one dead very quickly. Try it sometime!
But then, you may nopt get it. Jumping from the general to the particular and when one does it is not a matter of consensus or institutional decisions to which you are accustomed. It is a matter of choice of the individual whose life could be in danger, not yours, not governments, and certainly not the police.Thats the difference beteen the USA and Great Britain.In the USA an individual right ( 2nd amendment etc.)to decide on ones self defence and how to exercise it, not the decision of some other entity.That is why you fail to understand.
In any event, there is plenty of violence in the Scotish Highlands for which any reasonable person should be prepared, including murder.
Rape:
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/jess-ryan-says-she-was-raped-by-35-1498009
Murder:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-22652471
There are many. Google them yourself:
Scotland Highlands Rape
Scotlland Highlands Murder
Scottland Highlands reak and Energy
As has been repeatedly pointed out by British posters here, and contrary to a persistent myth among US commentators, the British citizen has every right to defend himself, including if necessary the use of lethal force, and that right derives from neither government nor the police. It derives from centuries-old Common Law on which both the US and British legal systems are based. You are of course right to say that it’s the individual’s responsibility to be prepared for whatever risks he might be exposed to.
That, however, is a completely different matter from your repeated and bizarre claim that the Scottish Highlands are a particularly violent or dangerous location. It doesn’t alter the fact that the risk of any individual being exposed to violence when visiting the Highlands is vanishingly small. I’m not sure what point you are trying to make by repeating single examples of crimes that have taken place there. Of course there have been violent crimes. Mankind is imperfect, individuals are wicked, evil acts are perpetrated. Is there any country, however civilized, where that is not so? None of what you have said even begins to demonstrate that, against that universal background, this area is relatively dangerous.
The average murder rate in the UK as a whole is 1.2 per 100,000 people. In the U.S. it’s 4.8, four times as high. What conclusion do you draw from that? If I had more leisure than I can lay claim to, I could probably mine from the published statistics the figures for the Highland Region. I would be very surprised if they are not a good deal better than the UK average, as this is true of most rural areas of the country.
Your insistence that the Scottish Highlands is a murder zone is a bit odd, I have to say.