sighs.
Attempting a decent rational debate on a topic with Americans is just fraught with difficulty,as you seem like children in some ways.
I mean honestly.To refuse point blank that other countries can do things better than you, have a better education system ,health care, public transport and on this topic, a much lower murder and rape rate…just because you are AMERICAN.
What,is it the 10th amendment or something?
‘No country can on any account do things better than the United States’
All you are doing is deluding yourself,seriously, which is both kind of sad and dangerous.You seem to have an inability to back up anything you say with those little unimportant superfluous things called …facts and independent data….you just make things up.You know you do and you don’t seem to care.
Britain has crime, ALOT of it.We have scumbags ALOT of them. It’s just that the culture and temperament are a little different here and
it is a far less deadlier country to live in than the USA.
Yes you most certainly can get a hiding, mugged, burgled, car stolen in the UK,possibly even more so than on the continent,no Brit says you wont.
We actually do mostly tell it like it is, that’s usually our temperament,it just doesn’t seem to be yours.
I’m sorry to burst your bubble but you’re just far more likely to end up in a body bag in the USA than in the UK, which is i think after all said and done,the stat that’s the most important, no?
Many Americans just cant seem to bear the thought that its far saner and safer living in Europe especially if that country is the UK!
Sorry, but you don’t do maturity very well.As is evidenced by some of your comments.
The boring stuff….Some data
15,241 murders for 2009, compared to the UK’s 18 year low of 648. Google it you’ll find the data.
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/16/crime-figures-recession-impact
51 gun related deaths recorded in the United Kingdom, yes that does include Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland ,compared to nearly 12,000 American gun related homicides.What do you think this tells us?
That’s not too bad for a nation of near62 million is it really?
Oh and by the way i actually do like Americans, even though I am on my soap box here.If only you’d just try and see some things as they really are instead of ‘gut instinctively’ waving the stars n stripes full in our face, you might actually get somewhere
well i’m out.