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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20837829
This illustrates the difference between the UK and the USA for me. Here's some dickhead out to cause damage to strangers. He has swords, knives, crossbow. He's attacked someone at random who has no links to him. He's managed to injure one person pretty badly, before a police officer (unarmed) managed to chase him down and stop him.
In the USA, I cant help but think, with the availability of guns, that this guy would have been able to carry out another typical mass shooting, And that the perpetrator would have been shot dead, either by himself or by police, instead of being arrested and hauled before a court.
I have Irish friends living in Bloomington, Chicago, and Detroit. I enjoyed staying with them, but there is no way I'd ever live there, bring kids up there. I worry for my friends sometimes.