Today is 12/07/2024. According to wikipedia, so far this year there have been 701 deaths in the US caused by Police. This number includes both justified and wrongful deaths. The US has on average, a population that is 5 times higher than the UK. So, if deaths involving the police were at a similar rate in both countries, we would expect there to have been around 140 deaths caused by Police in the UK (again, both justified and wrongful) in the same period of time. Instead there has been 1 which was on 30 January 2024 In fact, there have been 140 deaths caused by Police in the UK since 01/03/1972 This means that there has been a higher proportion of deaths in the US caused by the police in the last 6 months and 12 days than in the UK for the last 52 years.
Our police are trained to de-escalate things, discharging a firearm is the ultimate last resort. My father was an armed response officer and never discharged his weapon outside of training.
@@lindachallinor5154 it's 5.6 per million in the US and 3.8 per million in the UK. murder rate in the USA is 6.2 per 100,000 uk is 2.1 per 100,000 which in all honesty is high for Europe, Germany is 0.8 and Norway is 0.5
Living in the UK feels co,pletely safe to me. I heard an owl one night after going to bed. I put a coat on over my nighdress and went for a walk to see if I could get a photo. I felt co,pletely safe.
Yep and zero free healthcare, chemically induced food they literally make Fanta orange with chemicals instead of oranges like the UK 😂😂 10 days annual leave... If you are lucky it's 28 days in the UK and pretty much mandatory for full time employees, 2 dollar per hour wages for waiters because they expect tips 😂😂😂freedom sure is cool
I just HAD to comment... I'm British, have travelled to the US (many parts), for 50 + years... So, I recall an occasion when an OLD, battered truck hit a couple of people crossing a road. The vehicle had sharp, rusty, metal bodywork sticking out of the sides. The truck was NOT going fast, but the physical damage to the two people was horrific! Sliced like a hot knife through butter! In the UK it would NOT have been allowed on the road - NO WAY - but in the US, no issue or problem. DUH!!! 😢😢😢
I'm 70+ and live in the UK. I've never seen a gun, touched a gun or even heard gunfire. Nor has anyone in my family or anyone I have met through my lifetime. Only on the television or films.
I am 65 and live and grew up in the UK. I find that surprising. As a child fired airguns at fairs at the annual fair near where I was growing up. I also handled a real, unloaded gun at a school open day. It was the Combined Cadet Force recruitment section. The leader of the CCF had served in WW2. My Dad's best friend had been a prisoner of the Japanese. As an adult I have seen a few guns in museums, such as the German Hospital on Jersey. I have seen guns when travelling abroad, usually carried by policemen. I was once stopped by a US cop - he was looking for someone driving the same model of car. I have visited London and seen the guards at Buckingham Palace. I have also seen a few carried by police in airports and once in the boot of a police car that was blocking the road leading to where I was living. They were there to arrest a drug dealer living on the opposite side of the road.
@@peterjackson4763 Obviously I wasn't referring to people authorised to carry guns i.e. authorised police, guards at BP etc. I was only referring to regular citizens which in the US seems to be every other person.
The only time I see guns is with my brother that has a hobby with them, but in society, I've never seen a gun or heard any of them going off. As for knifes, there's only been one time with an incident I remember and this was in the early 90's and didn't involve me, but in any case, I didn't feel in danger of it. Another thing is nighttimes, years back I used to stay out late at nights in the early mornings at my friend's house, getting back home any time from 2am to 4am, not once did I ever feel unsafe, and the only incident that ever happened was on rare occasion, a cop would ask what I'm doing out so late, I tell them and it's back to walking home and overall, it's really peaceful being as it's so quiet with hardly anyone out and about. Also, when I was a kid, parents never had to worry about me or friends when we went out and about, and we did go out and about for miles away from where I live, I think the furthers I've been on my own was around 10 or so miles when I was around 11 lol, not once did I ever feel unsafe or felt like my parents were worried about me, it's all normal in the UK and I suspect in other European countries as well.
Guns are not illegal In the UK, they are very heavily regulated and handguns are a big no no. The calibre is what's limited more than anything. You can pretty much get anything in a 22. 306 and 308 hunting rifles are allowed and most guage shotguns though modified weapons are illegal that includes shortened barrels.
Maybe jean charles de meneses if he was alive would disagree. As a citizen that was arrested for firearms charges ( I don't own a firearm) yet alone firearms officers arrested me....... and grilled me, the popo are corrupt, they need arrest figures for funding......... I was let go. My daughter was mugged on the tube, by immigrants and lost her phone, Oyster card, bank cards and her university id, the popo gave her a crime number........... this country is going down the shitter, by design............FTG 🖕🏻🖕🏻
Police don't need guns because most people don't need police. We can usually sort things out amicably. Involving the police is considered undesirable and indeed a failure
It's not just the UK who have regulations on guns. Most of the world does. I'm glad to live in a European country and know that there's no need for a gun.
No MOTs in USA (all States?) alarms me. You could be sat at a red light with your family on board, when a rust bucket rams into the back of you whose brakes etc have not been checked in the last 10 years or so. In the UK, yes it's a balls ache & expensive, but it also gives me reassurance that MY car is safe to carry my family around. Keep going mate! 60K is just round the corner!
Some states do have testing, albeit to a much lesser extent than an MOT. If you want to see how bad it can be, there's a channel called "Just Rolled In" where US mechanics share examples. They'll turn your hair grey. 🤣
I do think it's different there though with the lack of public transport. Often without a car you can't get to work, school, Uni, access childcare and activities for children, and so on. Rock and a hard place at times.
Mot arnt really expensive £40 a year for the certificate. What costs is any repairs needed to pass if you fail. new breaks, tires etc are the common things needed. But then you need to replace those things anyway. We know it's highly unlikely that a car won't be able to stop due to break failure. Cars skidding out of control due to bald tires just isn't a thing. Any accidents are down to a failure of not paying attention, driving too fast for the road /conditions. Visibility like parks cars blocking view of the road.
@@frankmitchell3594 My American brother in law came to the UK and failed his UK driving test at age 50. Was SO mad and then never tried again. Yeah, it's way, way tougher than the US one.
As a Londoner... I live in one of the Boroughs of London... I am happy to take myself out for the day in my own City to the tourist places etc... as a lone woman... lot of these places are places we visited when at school for our school trips when was kids.... new places pop up & nice to visit these new places... the Tube is easy to navigate so I know I can get home ok using public transport... Train/Tube/Bus... feel very much safe here at home.... fun fact London Borough of Croydon has more CCTV than New York.... I also feel safe to approach our police if I feel uneasy & also our Police can have fun with us like if on a night out they are happy to have a selfie taken with them sometimes let you wear their helmets do arrest poses for pics too... thats what they call positive community policing.. but there is times peeps misbehave so they are tougher on those peeps... but they are trained to try a de-escalate the situation... I wouldn't wanna do their job... the diff is they are there to serve not to force... if you come to London you will be good and safe here x
@@robcrossgrove7927 He was a dangerous criminal, probably armed with a knife, it's easy to be brave from a keyboard. There is also no evidence that the train was crowded, other than the usual social media Chinese whispering. It was early hours on a weekend, the only reported people in the carriage were a French tourist and their eleven year old son, who reported it to the police. In fact, as the CCTV failed to capture the attack or identify the criminal, it was his evidence that led to his capture, and his flying over from France to testify in the trial that meant he was jailed for 9 years for the attack. Unfortunately, you're never going to be completely safe when some criminals just don't care about getting caught and everyone needs to be aware of your surroundings, wherever you are in the world. The young woman was unconscious after a long night out drinking with friends, returning home alone on a train, missed her stop and ended up at the end of the line - there is no victim blaming here, she should still have been safe, but there is no way I would have put a drunken female friend of mine alone on a train - her friends, if they have any conscience, probably regret that to this day. The fact that this happened in 2020 and the investigating officer said it was the worst case he had ever seen suggests that it is not a common occurrence.
City or village, people are safe here. I was shocked when American women told me they were afraid to go out alone at night. That's not really a concept here. I only lock my doors at night because it is a condition of my lease. Life in America just sounds exhausting. We don't have to think about any of that stuff.
There isn't a city in the UK where you could leave your doors open , and its certainly not safe to walk alone at night , even during the day kids and women get harassed by gangs of men , it sounds like you're living in the 50s
@@Raven44453 Yeah. I live just outside Nottingham. People are, not frequently, but more often than rarely, killed in the city centre. Although I have to say it's often gang related, but people walking home from nightclubs get into fights at around 2 or 3 in the morning and get killed. Just recently, we had these 4 students and their teacher killed. I personally would be very choosy where I went after dark. In fact, during the day as well. There are areas in Nottingham where I would feel very unsafe.
@@Raven44453 Absolutely right and because they are who they are then they have no fear from the Police because they would be racist if they intervened in the groomers disgusting acts even to the point that Starmer and Co have just released a grooming gang ring leader from prison.
Here in Denmark this is MANDATORY : atleast 14 driving lessions EVEN before you are allowed to take the theory test, and in all atleast 16 lession before you are allowed to take the Driving test( practical test.) it costs between 12.000-17.000 DKK = 1760 -2485 USD.. we dont let our effin parents learn us how to drive and transffering all their bad driving habits to us... gezz
The US has the almost the least hours for police officer training in the developed world, spending the hours more for tactical purposes so most officers do not know how to interact with the public properly to defuse situations
I think in the UK, or England at least, you have to attend Hendon training centre for 13 weeks before joining an actual force where you would still be a trainnee/probationer.
First time I saw armed police was flying into London from Cyprus at 3 am. Airport should have been deserted, but it was full of police armed to the teeth. This was during the war in Yugoslavia, and apparently someone Very Bad was trying to sneak into the UK via Cyprus. Completely freaked me out
No M.O.T’s? Wow. That’s a surprise! And yes, the driving test in the U.K. is not at all easy to pass. Guns? I saw my first ones a few weeks ago when I visited a Stately Home and they were in a display cabinet. There is no gun culture here, but some people do still have them. Dunblane? One school shooting changed everything almost overnight. Laws were changed, and a clamp down on gun ownership followed. No school shootings since. Regular police officers do not carry guns, but some specially trained units do. America is viewed poorly for safety because of the gun culture. I’m not sure the U.K. could compare because of that. All I can say is I used to live in a U.K. city, and used to walk around in the small hours confident of absolutely no harm coming to me, and it never did.
There are so few mass shootings in this country, I can name them (I can name just a few I've heard of in the USA, but there are so many, their names gi iver my head, but I'll get the spelling wrong so apologies for my errors there) Columbine, Yvelde, sorry I know that's wrong.😢 The British / English ones I know of are Dunblane, (Scotland) as Kalyn said, plus Hungerford, (Berkshire, England) Whitehaven, (Cumbria, England) Whitehouse Farm, (where there has seemed to be a dispute over the identity of the killer, but one family member is in gaol having been found guilty in a Court of Law of having killed his parents - who had adopted him, and he also killed his sister and her young twin sons... I think they had lived somewhere in England) ...and I don't know if there were other mass shootings (...oh, I think there was one another where a man killed his family, then himself, but I don't recall where that was either). Compared to the deaths in the US by guns etc, the poor souls murdered in this country seems to fortunately be few and far between.
@@brigidsingleton1596 Yes indeed, mercifully few and far between in the U.K. and although all equally tragic, the Dunblane massacre was the one that really sat people down and have the government pass laws to restrict gun ownership.
It was exactly the same in Australia with the infamous Port Arthur massacre in 1996..35 people and 23 wounded. This led to the Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, restricting the private ownership of semi-automatic rifles, semi-automatic shotguns and pump-action shotguns as well as introducing uniform firearms licensing. One politician said:- "In the US, the right to gun ownership has persisted since 1791. Australia's view has been that history can be changed for the better"
Mate the statistics are really easy to look up, theres a bunch of variations but generally. Total deaths due to homicide last year in the uk was about 600, in the usa it was closer to 25,000 homicides. And the usas population is 5x the uk not like 40x haha. The USA has over 65 cities that range from 12 per 100,000 homicides to 150 per 100,000 homicides (st louis lol). For comparison the homcide rate in london a 'dangerous' city of 10 million is 1.2 per 100,000 and most cops dont carry guns remember. Most of europe is about 1-2 deaths per 100,000. Fortunately homicides have been decreasing in recent years in the usa which is good seems to be down to 18-19,000 this last year. In the world peace index the USA is ranked 131, with some third world countries ranked above the usa, the 2023 report is what im referencing. Your deaths due to most sources are often higher, one example is deaths due to cars, for reference the total in the uk about 1500 deaths per year due to cars, where as in the usa its about 50,000 people that die due to cars. (you can just multiple by 5 or even 6 if you want to compare for equal population). Knife crime is considered a problem by us in the uk because even our low crime rates are still too high for us and weve seen a rise especially among young people which is a problem, but for compairson there is more deaths due to knife in the usa per capita than the uk. There was about 250 deaths due to knife last year in the uk, compared to about 1600 in the usa, there is even a category called 'other weapons' so not a type of gun or knife and this number is about 1500 deaths, so the usa has more deaths by 'other weapons' than the uk has by Knives our most dangerous weapon, even normalized for population size In the usa more children die due to electric shock PER YEAR than adults and children have died in the UK in over 10 years. Theres only 35 gun deaths per year in the UK, when theres 20,000+ gun homcides in the USA ever year etc etc, you could go all day its wild, there nowhere that has items in stores under lock and key, theres no mass looting, theres very very little drugged out zombies stumbling around, people are generally reasonable and respectable and keep themselves to themselves, theres a sense of order, it rarely feels like something might kick off, the immigrant problem too in the uk is massively overexaggerated by kinda racist people and nothing im saying denies the fact that the uk is also fucked in some ways with worsening wealth disparities, underfunding for major public resources etc.
As a Brit, in the 1980's, I visited Florida and was mugged/robbed within 100 yards and 15 minutes of arriving at the (quality) hotel. On another flight to Georgia, I sat in the wrong seat (misread my ticket) and was challenged by this old angry white guy who shouted "You're in the wrong seat, SIR". When I apologised and said "Pardon me, my mistake" and moved to the next row, he must have picked up on my English accent. He (yelled) "You're not just in the wrong seat, you're in the WRONG COUNTRY - WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!". I resisted the urge to say "You're not a native Indian, what are YOU doing here?". 20 years later I went to my brother's wedding (to an American girl) in Wisconsin. Her parents were the most welcoming and kind people I've ever met. The USA, to me, is a puzzle.
Most years? Which town because I want to avoid it! My nearest large town hasn’t had a single gun incident in living memory. Our newspaper is really boring! “Local Dog wins smelliest f@rts contest” is a main headline.
@@fionaparkinson3821 it’s Northampton, and I said most years for accuracy, because someone was shot and killed in 2019. It was done by druggy people who came from London especially for the job so to speak. I don’t know if there were any previously. To be honest nothing normally happens. I write a little joke blog about patrolling the mean streets of Northampton, and the highlights this week were, I saved a snail on the pavement, and someone put their bin out early and blocked a third of the pavement for a day more than they should have.
@@fionaparkinson3821 the snail is now living its best life in someone’s front garden. Today there’s a park run and there’s a sign about a tripping hazard, so I took a photo of it and todays report is going to be about tripping hazards. Wild times.
Just to add to Kayln's excellent video, anyone can own a firearm in the UK (except handguns under 12 inches as these are banned post the last school massacre nearly 30 years ago). However you need to present the local police with a good reason you need a gun. They'll do background checks on you for 3-6 months before deciding to ok or not your application to have a gun. You are then licensed for a year and subject to checks by the police. You can not carry a gun in public unless en route to your farm fields and going to use. Carrying an illegal firearm is a serious offence with a 17 kid in my area found in possession of a gun and sentenced to 5 years in the hole! All police towns and cities have specialist firearms units attached to them that can be called up for serious incidents. Every Time they fire their gun a independent body reviews whether they should have done so. Police killing someone in the UK is serious and is rare with 3 reported last year in the whole of the UK.
You want terrifying places to drive try Paris or Italy/Rome! 😳 MOTs shld be everywhere. I want to know the car I’m driving isn’t about to fall apart. And our driving test has a written exam that u have to pass, then a seriously strict driving test. Bad habits creep in of course, but I think it sets up for general all round safety.
If you visit londons main tourist areas all you have to worry about are pickpockets , ive never felt unsafe here in the area i live which is in the outskirts of london . 😊
Speaking as a Brit, I don't think most Brits would think about safety as a major issue when travelling or moving abroad, except perhaps the USA or some volatile Middle-East country. Especially not to the extent of arming oneself.
Totally agree. As a female, I make a few adjustments, but I still feel I can manage my safety in the UK. Sometimes it feels like Europe is sandwiched between two extremes…
Homer, in The Odyssey has Telemachus saying, “The blade itself incites violence”. In other words the owning of a weapon can infer a sense of power, not only power but also, with it, a feeling of entitlement to use that power. It is, as far as I can tell, a true statement, that applies to a lot of people, especially those that have that sense of being empowered to use a weapon simply because it is to hand. The entitlement is part of an, “I’ve got a bigger stick and what I say goes" syndrome. This in turn leads to a, "well, I'm getting a bigger stick than you". This is how guns proliferate and why some people need more guns, need more powerful guns, all the way up to AR-15s.Take the guns out of society and the sense of empowerment is removed, the feelings of fear are relieved. Eventually a disdain for guns altogether. this is why gun companies use fear to sell product. They want an ever escalating arms war.
In 1979, my husband and I set off on a drive across the world in an old car. My husbands family asked what we would take for protection, would we take a gun? My feeling and luckily my husband's too was that it would elevate matters to a dangerous level. As it was, despite going through unstable countries and one with a recent revolution, we were shown extraordinary hospitality, kindness and help when needed. I can never ever join in the hate between religion rhetoric that is escalating nowadays.
On the gun law issue comparing and contrasting UK and the US, you may want to react to "UK gun laws Adam Explains". Too many US people seem to think there are outright bans on guns, and that is misleading. I think it gives a good idea of the dos and don'ts of gun ownership and usage here.
My sons girlfriend spent university time in Georgia US as part of her university course. She said she felt unsafe purely because peoplewere carrying guns - she said if she went to an event it was in the back of her mind “am I going to be shot”.
US knife crime is higher per capita than the UK it has nothing to do with the size of the population rather how the number of crimes break down to per thousand in a population. Its the argument that US gun culture ingores when quoting UK knife crime. Knife crime in the UK is a much more obvious and there for a bigger social issue. Because we don't have a horrific layer of firearm related crime swamping the issue into second place.
I believe there is also a difference in the definition of knife crime between US and UK. In the US it is only recorded as a knife crime if the knife has actually been used in a crime. In the UK, in certain circumstances, the possession of a knife can itself be recorded as a knife crime, even if it has not been used in a crime.. So the UK stats use a much wider definition but still a lower figure per capita.
Dunblane school massacre, mass shooting on March 13, 1996, in which a gunman invaded a primary school in the small Scottish town of Dunblane and shot to death 16 young children and their teacher before turning a gun on himself. The gunman, Thomas Hamilton, lived in the town.
@DianeLittle_dd6ej- Dunblane school massacre was almost 20 years ago; an extremely rare occurrence. Whereas in the USA, such mass murders are a fairly regular occurrence.
Please edit out the arseholes name. Like Pharaoh once said " His name will be erased from all pylons and obelisks" etc. It's the Children and Teacher that should be remembered.
I'm a Londoner born and bred. I used to get the night bus home from clubbing in Tottenham (bad area) to Kings Cross (bad area) and never felt unsafe. I was in Tottenham, talking to the protestors, half an hour before the riots kicked off in 2011. They were *fully* peaceful with little kids there, until the police shoved a girl. Londoners are generally peaceful until pushed. Then FAFO.
There was an incident a couple of years ago in Birmingham UK, where a gang shot at a building (I think a barbershop) in a drive-by shooting. A couple of days later the "Barbershop gang" carried out a revenge drive-by shooting on a house. The strange thing was, and it's indicative of UK gun availability, is that the same gun was used in both incidents. Each gang had borrowed the same gun from the same lender.
@@10wanderer When my children were little, like 6 and 4, we went up to Birmingham for a Chinese meal. This was about 34 years ago and mobile phones were rare. We walked past a man leaning on an expensive car with a mobile and my six year old said in a loud voice "is he a drug dealer?" then a bit later there was a drunk on the pavement by a bus stop and my son said "Is that man dead?" No idea where he got those ideas from.
That's what the public believe, but it's bollocks, just a rumour started by those in power, like freedom of speech, the UK "constitution" and innocent until proven guilty.
Most of the mass casualty events we have had in the UK have been the result of foreign terrorist attacks, not homegrown lone shooters as so often happens in the US. Dunblane was an exception in this respect that caused major changes to our gun laws to prevent it happening again. Nowhere is perfectly safe unfortunately - there are parts of my own city in the North of England where I would be wary of venturing alone after dark.
2 things , she says that she isn’t aware how long it would take armed police to respond, in London when there was that man with a suicide vest , members of the public took him on for 3.40 seconds with fire extinguishers , a narwhal tusk and chair legs. The armed police arrived very quickly but equally members of the public were no afraid to take him on , they knew he had knives but also knew he didn’t have a gun so were not afraid to get involved.. In the countryside there was a man who rampaged around Cumbria with a gun, it did take take almost a week for armed police to catch up with him him but that’s because he went into hiding and you have instances of those sorts of man hunts with armed police on every corner in the US. Drill music , I am not denying that UK Drill music uses violent imagery and has been cited as one of the reasons for the increase in gang violence in SE London, but the violence is specifically knife violence not gun violence of which there has been no correspondent increase in gun violence since the increase in Drill music in the UK. The drill artists themselves say is an expression of the “ violence” with which the UK Conservative government disenfranchise youth society in the Uk. witthrowaribg community centres and benefits with decreased community policing , leaving nothing for these city youths to do other than gang together and hang around together. Now as of early July 2024 we have a new Labour Government which has identified the need for more engagement with people and has an aim getting jobs for more people hopefully youth disenfranchisement will reduce especially as the right to vote is to be given to 16 and 17 year olds.
@dianeshelton9592 Vote at 16? Labour are doing that to ensure they stay in power because 16 year olds can't use the pedestrian crossings correctly never mind learn about politics. Typical Labour.
4:52 The rail company that blew up those chemical tanks when a train derailed had on their mission statement, no word of a lie shall i tell, 5 pillars that drive their business. Safety was _third_ They literally wrote _SAFETY THIRD_ on the inside page of all their employees handbooks. Behind something like (i forget the details) Maximising shareholde value and growing the business or some such waffle. *_THIRD_*
There is also far more knife crime in the US than the UK , & more crime in general. We are not afraid of our neighbours, or Government, here in the UK. Armed police are available as required, & in important places there are heavily armed police.
A fact you may not know....the 1996 Dunblane shooting that was mentioned in the video was actually the school of UK tennis ace Andy Murray and his brother Jamie. Andy was about 9 at the time and actually knew Thomas Hamilton who was the shooter as he was their local youth/scout leader. Apparently Andys class was on their way to the gym when they heard the shots. 16 children died that day and 32 more children and adults were severely injured after the 3 minute spray of 105 bullets by Hamilton when he turned the gun on himself. Andy and his family now does a lot for Dunblane and its survivors.
My Dad, in the UK, used to own shotguns. The police used to spot visit every few months to make sure our house was adequately secure and that they were stored out of sight and in a heavily locked, metal box. If you have certain medical conditions, they revoke your license.
The woman in the video said she felt safer if she spotted and armed police officer at, for example, a railway station. For me, the opposite is true: I feel LESS safe when I see a police officer with a gun. Actually, you're unlikely to see them at train stations, but you may see some at airports or at embassies (or in Downing Street). The only place in the UK where police regularly carry guns, is Northern Ireland.
My husband doesn't like me walking about the town at night but to be honest it wouldn't bother me. I've never felt at risk in my 60+ years and the only time I felt slightly worried was as a 15 year old in Miami when I saw a police officer touching his gun
Once in Houston Texas I was pulled by a State trooper because I had turned and briefly driven on the left hand side! He was scary, mirrorred sunglasses, strict demeanour, barely said a word. I feel that if I had not been a tourist due to leave in a week he would have pursued it further.
I am a old man now. When I was half my present age I did karate for about 4 years, one of my instructors was a police constable, one of my fellow students was too, and occasionally others came to the class. Just because there is no gun, don't assume anyone can push them around. Keep Reacting!
Worth mentioning that police training in the US varies from state to state but on average across the nation the training period is 21 weeks. In the UK it takes on average three years.
I’m 62 and I only seen a gun once in my life and that was when I left England for a visit with my American relatives in 79.You’ve got a lot of power with a gun in your hand.I can see the appeal for a gun,but give me safe England any day.
You had it in a nutshell - use your loaf (bread=head) & read the room. Be fully aware of where you are, who's around you & what your own instincts are telling you. Loaf of bread is cockney rhyming slang. You could do an entire session on cockney slang & get incredible interpretations from people 🏴🇬🇧🏴🏴❤️
Only a matter of days ago three people were killed with a crossbow in the South of England. Already there are calls for such weapons to be regulated in the same way that guns are regulated. There are also irregular armistices for people to surrender weapons such as machetes, stilettos etc., at local police stations without fear of prosecution.
I've lived in both London and A small town in Norfolk called Attleborough. When I travel from Norfolk to London "You can't go there, you will get murdered." I go from London to Norfolk "You can't go there, you will get murdered" The biggest problem I experienced in either was my wallet being pick-pocketed. And that was returned because I only stored out of date credit cards and a expired id.
the uk policing system is known as policing by consent. the armed response units are generally given an area to operate within so there is a known response time for each area if they are required.
Dunblain was a Scottish primary school with children from 5yrs and up. March 13, 1996. 16 children & their teacher were killed. The gunman (who was local) then turned the gun on himself. I was 17 @ the time & in Secondary school when it happened. Looking towards Collage. It was shocking to watch the news reports of the time & see a primary school like id gone to & hearing other Scottish voices talking about the kids & teacher whose lives were lost.
She's slightly misinformed about UK gun law and more people have guns than you might think it's just not really good etiquette to go around talking about it, for instance if you only want a shotgun with a 3 round or less capacity it's remarkably easy to get the certificate
13:39 In the London Bridge terrorist attack, it took 7 mins for the Armed Response Unit police to arrive. In the meantime the street bobbies tackled the attackers, aided by the public.
You have misunderstood the point about USA having more knife crime than the UK. The point is each individual citizen in the US has a much higher change of being a victim of knife crime than a citizen on the UK . The rate is per capita not overall. And the other thing is you discussed how violence could happen anywhere and you were very aware of how you carried yourself and had to be aware of how people were around you. Her whole point is that she didn’t feel that she had to be like that in the Uk. She felt she could go to the shops, to a football match or a concert without the fear of someone with a gun going a rampage and killing a whole load of people . Also “ the talk” it does depend where you live in the UK but most black mothers have not to have “ the talk” with their sons about the police. It also has to be said people in the UK are not frightened of the police, the police police by consent not by intimidation.
In the UK you have to have a real valid reason to have a gun, whether it’s sport/recreation which requires membership of a gun club, farming. That’s about it. Self defence is not considered a valid reason to have a gun. If you have a weapon for self defence you are carrying a weapon for the purpose of causing harm to another person, so you are carrying a deadly weapon, which is a crime. My dad was a police officer and he once arrested a guy for having a squeezy bottle of bleach. He claimed it was for cleaning his car windows, but he was parked near the house of someone he had a known beef with, so he was arrested because his excuse for having it wasn’t believed, it was assumed he was going to use it to squirt the fluid into the face of the other person, which made it a weapon, and got some handcuffs for having that weapon. Depending on context you could be arrested for having a golf club, cricket bat, chair leg, knife etc. if it is believed you are carrying it for any purpose that could potentially harm another person. America: “This is a stand your ground state!” Said by somebody carrying a concealed gun who fired it into someone, and that’s considered a valid sequence of events.
The difference in the driving test arises from a cultural difference as why it is given. In the US you are tested to see if you know how to make the car move (i.e. drive the CAR) In the UK (and Europe overall) you are tested to see if you know how to control a car safely in public (i.e drive on the ROAD)
Just a point on the MOT test, she's not quite right on them not testing how a car runs, they do test emissions and smoke which is tied in to if a car is running properly, also if the car was not running properly ie misfiring or there was oblivious problem with the engine which could lead to catastrophic failure then the tester can fail the car because it's unsafe, though to be fair most MOT testers wouldn't start the test if the car had obvious engine faults especially if it sounds like the big ends are about to exit the cylinder block.
Re the police in the UK. Where I work, there is a mill building between a small river and a canal. My colleague was walking along the canal path to buy some lunch, she came back saying a man walked by her, talking on the phone next minute there was a carload of 4 plain clothes police in stab vests chasing him. He jumped into the river with police in pursuit and they caught him and dragged him out. I went out to see what was going on they had him sitting next to my car, while he coughed and spluttered and was sick on my wheel. They had the stab vests on the roof of my car. They couldn't fit him in their car so they had to wait for another one to arrive to take him off. They treated him humanely and they all stayed alive.
Only New Yorkers believe it you can drive in New York you can drive anywhere... I challenge them to drive in Bangkok... They'd have a heart attack or just walk away from the vehicle...
@@lindsaymckeown513 Knowing how to drive is only part of it, knowing how to negotiate multiple unmarked lanes of constantly moving traffic is an art form, a skill developed over time. When I was in Thailand in general I never drove. Their one way systems are a Krypton Factor level puzzles to decipher. But their non-yielding yield is more a matter of telepathy or some advanced precognition. The crazy thing is it looks like chaos, but when you're in one of those cars, they aren't panicking, overreacting or lost, it's quite strange to see them calmly define a route to where they're going and negotiate it without heavy braking or collisions.
An MOT has to be obtained on year 3 the car was first registered i.e. It's 3rd birthday and every following 12 months. It has to pass various mechanical tests, tyre and emission tests etc. If it doesn't pass, the certificate will not be issued until the repairs are carried out. It is illegal for your car to be on the road without an MOT certificate and you will be subject to fines and points on your licence if caught. Police can check online to confirm if you have a valid certificate.
The UK has around ~50-70 deaths caused by firearms each year in average, I think. The US experiences something like 42-43,000 deaths by firearms each year.
The UK can be lot more violent than the USA, as we traditionally have had a drink culture, especially evident on a Friday or Saturday night out. Add to that, the current drug culture, and it is easy to find trouble. The difference is, because we don’t carry guns here, very few people actually get shot. 29 gun homicides last year, I believe? We do also have armed police, contrary to popular belief, instantly on call for situations that require their presence. These officers are very professional and highly trained.
Somewhere I watched a reactor I followed did a reaction to where the British armed police unit was called for a man who was threatening someone with a gun. They turned up attempted to de escalate. The man shot at the police on multiple occassions, but eventually was taken in safely with no shots being fired from the police. The American was astounded because in the conversation afterwards the police sniper said he did not shoot because it sounded like blanks. THATS TRAINING. You give your guns to badly trained idiots. To be on the Armed Police Response Team in the UK most have over a decade of experience ..... so a history of having a calm and measured personality under stress. I have watched many skittish US police pointing guns at people just because they don't want to get on the ground because of George Floyd.
Guns are not illegal in the UK. They are just treated as a privilege, not a right. There are youtube videos on uk gun laws. Take a look at them - you might be surprised.
I have only seen a gun once where I live. Years back about 2am a police helicopter was scanning the village I live in. I live next to a ma8n road and there is a gap in the headge on to my road and a Liverpool gun man found the gap the village was covered in armed police. We just had to stay away from the windows. The police got the 2 of them, the whole thing was amazing but is the only time I have seen a gun in the village and I have lived here 22 years. I have also only seen guns at large train stations and its not many.
In the UK the police have armed response vehicles (ARV’s) which can usually be on scene in around 6 minutes. Major cities will have many of these cars on duty at any one time. They are seriously tooled up with semi automatic rifles and handguns.
two things, i will leave it two comments, guns and police, as mentioned in another comment, our armed police are highly trained, and usually trained by milatry people, ex forces of high rank, i know this because my brother trained armed response, he was in the parachute regiment, they are also trained, to shoot one bullet, then when safe to give first aid, not empty 2 mags, then stand around waiting for an ambulance, with ill trained staff on the ambulances, like the US
Maybe I'm foolish, but I stayed in a motel in LA, and found out later it wasn't a place to stay that was safe, but it seemed ok to me, just a little rough around the edges.
In my 65 years of living in many different areas in the UK, including London for 10 years, I have never felt unsafe or threatened anywhere. I'm pleased London has so much CCTV surveillance; it adds to the sense of safety and I don't get the whole concern about privacy - if you are out and about in public, you are in public and as long as you are not doing anything shady why would you be concerned about being recorded on CCTV?
To quote the late great Terry Pratchett. "The shortest time ever recorded is that gap between the traffic lights charging and the New York taxi driver behind leaning on his horn".
I think her experiences are a pretty reasonable reflection of how London can be. I lived there for 26 years and it was not feeling unsafe that had me move. If I were a young man or youth I feel the experience might be different in certain areas of poverty/disadvantage but I think that's probably common in most cities across the West. As for driving, yes, you have to have a minimum set number of lessons, ideally, then take a theory and a practical test and the examiner will tend to err on the side of caution. If you are under 25 your insurance will be higher and even higher if you are driving a high powered car. I passed my test in London and drove there many years so, like New York, it does hone your reflexes!
The police in the UK who do have firearms are called Armed Response Units. I am British and live in the USA and I can tell you that the UK is MUCH safer than the USA in every way I can think of . However it's not just the UK, but pretty much all of Europe. Kids in Europe walk to school alone and are safe. That said, I personally feel perfectly safe wherever I happen to be.
21:45 But it think it’s the fact you have to be that ‘aware’ which really marks the difference between the US and UK/Europe. Living with that undercurrent of unease isn’t healthy.
The issue about Drill music is that it lacks authenticity.....it is hard to have a music genre all about shooting people when there are only 1000 to 2000 firearms incidents per year 2022/23 there were 28 gun deaths that were homicides, So in a population of 60-70 million. It is a rare event. Not to say being shot but not dying is fun
in my village which is small there has not been a murder sincw records began and that is a lomg time , also when my son who had been out clubbing would ring me at 2 am to say he thought he heard a badger i would walk down the lane to meet him lol with no worries
To get a gun licence you have to have a reason for owning one: * Sporting gun? Fine. Which gun club do you belong to? None? Oh dear. * Self defence? No. ('Home invasions' aren't a thing. Burglers want empty houses; if someone's in - they stay away.) * Farmer? No problem. 'Only criminals will own guns'. But they don't, because if caught committing a crime with a gun - whether used or not, possession is enough - an extra 5 to 10 years will be added to the sentence, and someone with a gun will be chased by the police with **extra passion**.
When it comes to knife crime in the UK what you will find its the younger teenagers, mostly boys that are both victim and perpetrator. Usually drug /gang related. The victims Usually know the perpetrator aswell. The average person just going about their daily business being randomly attacked is not common. Obviously it seems like alot because that is what makes the news. There has been a rise of knife crime because there has been a rise in kids getting involved in gangs and drugs.
We have a right to be safe and that extends beyond access to guns but also feeds into other things like how custody/abuse/road infrastructure/event regulations are handled as well
My wife and I have been rubbed twice in London. The thieves seem to know where the CCTV cameras are. We have been in 17 different states in USA and have never been rubbed there. Driving is much safer in the UK and in Europe. Traffic fatalities are five times higher in the USA compared to the UK. Being 66 years old I prefer mainland Europe and avoid the USA and the UK.
My sister in her sixties started travelling abroad late in life. She was pickpocketed in Paris and again when she went for a river cruise in Europe. She has lived in London all her adult life and never had a problem.
Today is 12/07/2024. According to wikipedia, so far this year there have been 701 deaths in the US caused by Police. This number includes both justified and wrongful deaths.
The US has on average, a population that is 5 times higher than the UK.
So, if deaths involving the police were at a similar rate in both countries, we would expect there to have been around 140 deaths caused by Police in the UK (again, both justified and wrongful) in the same period of time.
Instead there has been 1 which was on 30 January 2024
In fact, there have been 140 deaths caused by Police in the UK since 01/03/1972
This means that there has been a higher proportion of deaths in the US caused by the police in the last 6 months and 12 days than in the UK for the last 52 years.
Our police are trained to de-escalate things, discharging a firearm is the ultimate last resort. My father was an armed response officer and never discharged his weapon outside of training.
This!!
The USA should realize that when someone being killed by a gun is no longer newsworthy you have a problem.
People in the US who love guns will waffle on about knife crime in the UK, but we also have lower rates of knife crime than the US.
we do but as there are 300 million usa citizens and 67 million uk its not that easy to compare unless its done per 1000 heads
@@lindachallinor5154Which is exactly how crime stats are done. We have lower crime…
@@ffotograffydd and most folk can be saved from a knife attack. as opposed to ...
@@lindachallinor5154 it's 5.6 per million in the US and 3.8 per million in the UK. murder rate in the USA is 6.2 per 100,000 uk is 2.1 per 100,000 which in all honesty is high for Europe, Germany is 0.8 and Norway is 0.5
Yep, they're called per capita statistics, amount divided by population count.
Living in the UK feels co,pletely safe to me. I heard an owl one night after going to bed. I put a coat on over my nighdress and went for a walk to see if I could get a photo. I felt co,pletely safe.
Then that was very silly. People’s cameras down our street always catching men or groups of me hanging around
Don't leave us hanging. Did you get a photo or not
@GemmaJames6719 why are you hanging out in groups? Stop cloning yourself.
@@jemmajames6719 don't believe Facebook. Talk about hysterical. If you listen to that lot you'd swear it was the end of times
@@jemmajames6719 Stop wasting time cloning yourself and stay calm.
American people still beleive that they are number one in the world for freedom. Incredible.
Yep and zero free healthcare, chemically induced food they literally make Fanta orange with chemicals instead of oranges like the UK 😂😂 10 days annual leave... If you are lucky it's 28 days in the UK and pretty much mandatory for full time employees, 2 dollar per hour wages for waiters because they expect tips 😂😂😂freedom sure is cool
Hypocrisy at its best
They're currently 57th free-ist nation in the world.
UK is 35th.
We're behind literally everybody else in Europe.
They believe they need guns to protect themselves from people carrying guns. (And like quoting the 2nd Amendment)
@@mikefraser4513
Which becomes rather a self fulfilling prophecy.
I just HAD to comment... I'm British, have travelled to the US (many parts), for 50 + years... So, I recall an occasion when an OLD, battered truck hit a couple of people crossing a road. The vehicle had sharp, rusty, metal bodywork sticking out of the sides. The truck was NOT going fast, but the physical damage to the two people was horrific! Sliced like a hot knife through butter! In the UK it would NOT have been allowed on the road - NO WAY - but in the US, no issue or problem. DUH!!! 😢😢😢
Smh
I'm 70+ and live in the UK. I've never seen a gun, touched a gun or even heard gunfire. Nor has anyone in my family or anyone I have met through my lifetime. Only on the television or films.
I am 65 and live and grew up in the UK. I find that surprising. As a child fired airguns at fairs at the annual fair near where I was growing up. I also handled a real, unloaded gun at a school open day. It was the Combined Cadet Force recruitment section. The leader of the CCF had served in WW2. My Dad's best friend had been a prisoner of the Japanese.
As an adult I have seen a few guns in museums, such as the German Hospital on Jersey. I have seen guns when travelling abroad, usually carried by policemen. I was once stopped by a US cop - he was looking for someone driving the same model of car. I have visited London and seen the guards at Buckingham Palace. I have also seen a few carried by police in airports and once in the boot of a police car that was blocking the road leading to where I was living. They were there to arrest a drug dealer living on the opposite side of the road.
@@peterjackson4763 Obviously I wasn't referring to people authorised to carry guns i.e. authorised police, guards at BP etc. I was only referring to regular citizens which in the US seems to be every other person.
I had a shock when I first went to Germany as a child to see police in the streets with a gun in a holster.
in the countryside it is fairly common to hear the odd shotgun or low calibre rifle (mainly hunting or pest control)
The only time I see guns is with my brother that has a hobby with them, but in society, I've never seen a gun or heard any of them going off.
As for knifes, there's only been one time with an incident I remember and this was in the early 90's and didn't involve me, but in any case, I didn't feel in danger of it.
Another thing is nighttimes, years back I used to stay out late at nights in the early mornings at my friend's house, getting back home any time from 2am to 4am, not once did I ever feel unsafe, and the only incident that ever happened was on rare occasion, a cop would ask what I'm doing out so late, I tell them and it's back to walking home and overall, it's really peaceful being as it's so quiet with hardly anyone out and about.
Also, when I was a kid, parents never had to worry about me or friends when we went out and about, and we did go out and about for miles away from where I live, I think the furthers I've been on my own was around 10 or so miles when I was around 11 lol, not once did I ever feel unsafe or felt like my parents were worried about me, it's all normal in the UK and I suspect in other European countries as well.
Guns are not illegal In the UK, they are very heavily regulated and handguns are a big no no.
The calibre is what's limited more than anything. You can pretty much get anything in a 22.
306 and 308 hunting rifles are allowed and most guage shotguns though modified weapons are illegal that includes shortened barrels.
Police don't need guns, because they have training. Murdering people is not part of their job.
They don’t need guns, cos there’s not many guns on the streets.
Yep, UK police are trained for between 1440 (36 weeks) and 1680 hours
US cops are "trained" for 500 hours. ... that includes tazer \ gun training
@@Don-ii4vm In Germany the police training is even more rigorous. Driving licence is likewise very stringent.
Maybe jean charles de meneses if he was alive would disagree.
As a citizen that was arrested for firearms charges ( I don't own a firearm) yet alone firearms officers arrested me....... and grilled me, the popo are corrupt, they need arrest figures for funding......... I was let go.
My daughter was mugged on the tube, by immigrants and lost her phone, Oyster card, bank cards and her university id, the popo gave her a crime number...........
this country is going down the shitter, by design............FTG 🖕🏻🖕🏻
Police don't need guns because most people don't need police. We can usually sort things out amicably. Involving the police is considered undesirable and indeed a failure
It's not just the UK who have regulations on guns. Most of the world does. I'm glad to live in a European country and know that there's no need for a gun.
No MOTs in USA (all States?) alarms me. You could be sat at a red light with your family on board, when a rust bucket rams into the back of you whose brakes etc have not been checked in the last 10 years or so. In the UK, yes it's a balls ache & expensive, but it also gives me reassurance that MY car is safe to carry my family around. Keep going mate! 60K is just round the corner!
And, as Kaylin said, the driver may have been tested by driving around a carpark and along a quiet road.
Some states do have testing, albeit to a much lesser extent than an MOT. If you want to see how bad it can be, there's a channel called "Just Rolled In" where US mechanics share examples. They'll turn your hair grey. 🤣
I do think it's different there though with the lack of public transport. Often without a car you can't get to work, school, Uni, access childcare and activities for children, and so on. Rock and a hard place at times.
Mot arnt really expensive £40 a year for the certificate. What costs is any repairs needed to pass if you fail. new breaks, tires etc are the common things needed. But then you need to replace those things anyway. We know it's highly unlikely that a car won't be able to stop due to break failure. Cars skidding out of control due to bald tires just isn't a thing. Any accidents are down to a failure of not paying attention, driving too fast for the road /conditions. Visibility like parks cars blocking view of the road.
@@frankmitchell3594 My American brother in law came to the UK and failed his UK driving test at age 50. Was SO mad and then never tried again. Yeah, it's way, way tougher than the US one.
American Police Officer BANG!... "Stop or I'll shoot!"
British Police Officer "STOP!...
or I'll say STOP again!"
🤣I saw Robin Williams tell that joke years ago. So funny!😂
lol, sound like the police in Demolition Man. 'Say it againg in a firm voice and add or else'
Well they'd probably taze u but unlike US tazers they seem to hit more often than miss and they usually work too lol😂
Our police use tasers.
@@J_Degrees Not all UK policemen carry tasers.
In the UK Guns are a privilege not a Right
Nice slogan to push back on America even if it is bollocks.
I’m in my mid 60s. I’ve lived in big cities and small towns. I’ve never seen a gun in real life
I have, but only because I served in the military for 12 years.
I have but only on armed police guarding the PMs house Chequers.
As a Londoner... I live in one of the Boroughs of London... I am happy to take myself out for the day in my own City to the tourist places etc... as a lone woman... lot of these places are places we visited when at school for our school trips when was kids.... new places pop up & nice to visit these new places... the Tube is easy to navigate so I know I can get home ok using public transport... Train/Tube/Bus... feel very much safe here at home.... fun fact London Borough of Croydon has more CCTV than New York.... I also feel safe to approach our police if I feel uneasy & also our Police can have fun with us like if on a night out they are happy to have a selfie taken with them sometimes let you wear their helmets do arrest poses for pics too... thats what they call positive community policing.. but there is times peeps misbehave so they are tougher on those peeps... but they are trained to try a de-escalate the situation... I wouldn't wanna do their job... the diff is they are there to serve not to force... if you come to London you will be good and safe here x
@@robcrossgrove7927What? That was on an episode of Law and order years ago!!!
@@robcrossgrove7927 He was a dangerous criminal, probably armed with a knife, it's easy to be brave from a keyboard. There is also no evidence that the train was crowded, other than the usual social media Chinese whispering. It was early hours on a weekend, the only reported people in the carriage were a French tourist and their eleven year old son, who reported it to the police. In fact, as the CCTV failed to capture the attack or identify the criminal, it was his evidence that led to his capture, and his flying over from France to testify in the trial that meant he was jailed for 9 years for the attack.
Unfortunately, you're never going to be completely safe when some criminals just don't care about getting caught and everyone needs to be aware of your surroundings, wherever you are in the world. The young woman was unconscious after a long night out drinking with friends, returning home alone on a train, missed her stop and ended up at the end of the line - there is no victim blaming here, she should still have been safe, but there is no way I would have put a drunken female friend of mine alone on a train - her friends, if they have any conscience, probably regret that to this day.
The fact that this happened in 2020 and the investigating officer said it was the worst case he had ever seen suggests that it is not a common occurrence.
i dont feel safe in london as a woman travelling on my own and i come from Liverpool
@@lindachallinor5154London is safe most times but we all are to always be vigilant because there are trouble maker everywhere.
City or village, people are safe here. I was shocked when American women told me they were afraid to go out alone at night. That's not really a concept here. I only lock my doors at night because it is a condition of my lease.
Life in America just sounds exhausting. We don't have to think about any of that stuff.
There isn't a city in the UK where you could leave your doors open , and its certainly not safe to walk alone at night , even during the day kids and women get harassed by gangs of men , it sounds like you're living in the 50s
@@Raven44453 Yeah. I live just outside Nottingham. People are, not frequently, but more often than rarely, killed in the city centre. Although I have to say it's often gang related, but people walking home from nightclubs get into fights at around 2 or 3 in the morning and get killed. Just recently, we had these 4 students and their teacher killed. I personally would be very choosy where I went after dark. In fact, during the day as well. There are areas in Nottingham where I would feel very unsafe.
Definetely gets exhausting in the states very very quickly.
@@Raven44453 Absolutely right and because they are who they are then they have no fear from the Police because they would be racist if they intervened in the groomers disgusting acts even to the point that Starmer and Co have just released a grooming gang ring leader from prison.
Here in Denmark this is MANDATORY : atleast 14 driving lessions EVEN before you are allowed to take the theory test, and in all atleast 16 lession before you are allowed to take the Driving test( practical test.) it costs between 12.000-17.000 DKK = 1760 -2485 USD.. we dont let our effin parents learn us how to drive and transffering all their bad driving habits to us... gezz
We have to be better drivers here as we mostly drive manual cars. Love it.
The US has the almost the least hours for police officer training in the developed world, spending the hours more for tactical purposes so most officers do not know how to interact with the public properly to defuse situations
It shows
I think in the UK, or England at least, you have to attend Hendon training centre for 13 weeks before joining an actual force where you would still be a trainnee/probationer.
First time I saw armed police was flying into London from Cyprus at 3 am. Airport should have been deserted, but it was full of police armed to the teeth. This was during the war in Yugoslavia, and apparently someone Very Bad was trying to sneak into the UK via Cyprus. Completely freaked me out
No M.O.T’s? Wow. That’s a surprise! And yes, the driving test in the U.K. is not at all easy to pass. Guns? I saw my first ones a few weeks ago when I visited a Stately Home and they were in a display cabinet. There is no gun culture here, but some people do still have them.
Dunblane? One school shooting changed everything almost overnight. Laws were changed, and a clamp down on gun ownership followed. No school shootings since.
Regular police officers do not carry guns, but some specially trained units do.
America is viewed poorly for safety because of the gun culture. I’m not sure the U.K. could compare because of that.
All I can say is I used to live in a U.K. city, and used to walk around in the small hours confident of absolutely no harm coming to me, and it never did.
There are so few mass shootings in this country, I can name them (I can name just a few I've heard of in the USA, but there are so many, their names gi iver my head, but I'll get the spelling wrong so apologies for my errors there) Columbine, Yvelde, sorry I know that's wrong.😢
The British / English ones I know of are
Dunblane, (Scotland) as Kalyn said, plus
Hungerford, (Berkshire, England)
Whitehaven, (Cumbria, England)
Whitehouse Farm, (where there has seemed to be a dispute over the identity of the killer, but one family member is in gaol having been found guilty in a Court of Law of having killed his parents - who had adopted him, and he also killed his sister and her young twin sons... I think they had lived somewhere in England)
...and I don't know if there were other mass shootings (...oh, I think there was one another where a man killed his family, then himself, but I don't recall where that was either).
Compared to the deaths in the US by guns etc, the poor souls murdered in this country seems to fortunately be few and far between.
@@brigidsingleton1596 Yes indeed, mercifully few and far between in the U.K. and although all equally tragic, the Dunblane massacre was the one that really sat people down and have the government pass laws to restrict gun ownership.
It was exactly the same in Australia with the infamous Port Arthur massacre in 1996..35 people and 23 wounded.
This led to the Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, restricting the private ownership of semi-automatic rifles, semi-automatic shotguns and pump-action shotguns as well as introducing uniform firearms licensing.
One politician said:- "In the US, the right to gun ownership has persisted since 1791. Australia's view has been that history can be changed for the better"
Mate the statistics are really easy to look up, theres a bunch of variations but generally. Total deaths due to homicide last year in the uk was about 600, in the usa it was closer to 25,000 homicides. And the usas population is 5x the uk not like 40x haha. The USA has over 65 cities that range from 12 per 100,000 homicides to 150 per 100,000 homicides (st louis lol). For comparison the homcide rate in london a 'dangerous' city of 10 million is 1.2 per 100,000 and most cops dont carry guns remember. Most of europe is about 1-2 deaths per 100,000. Fortunately homicides have been decreasing in recent years in the usa which is good seems to be down to 18-19,000 this last year.
In the world peace index the USA is ranked 131, with some third world countries ranked above the usa, the 2023 report is what im referencing.
Your deaths due to most sources are often higher, one example is deaths due to cars, for reference the total in the uk about 1500 deaths per year due to cars, where as in the usa its about 50,000 people that die due to cars. (you can just multiple by 5 or even 6 if you want to compare for equal population).
Knife crime is considered a problem by us in the uk because even our low crime rates are still too high for us and weve seen a rise especially among young people which is a problem, but for compairson there is more deaths due to knife in the usa per capita than the uk. There was about 250 deaths due to knife last year in the uk, compared to about 1600 in the usa, there is even a category called 'other weapons' so not a type of gun or knife and this number is about 1500 deaths, so the usa has more deaths by 'other weapons' than the uk has by Knives our most dangerous weapon, even normalized for population size In the usa more children die due to electric shock PER YEAR than adults and children have died in the UK in over 10 years. Theres only 35 gun deaths per year in the UK, when theres 20,000+ gun homcides in the USA ever year etc etc, you could go all day its wild, there nowhere that has items in stores under lock and key, theres no mass looting, theres very very little drugged out zombies stumbling around, people are generally reasonable and respectable and keep themselves to themselves, theres a sense of order, it rarely feels like something might kick off, the immigrant problem too in the uk is massively overexaggerated by kinda racist people and nothing im saying denies the fact that the uk is also fucked in some ways with worsening wealth disparities, underfunding for major public resources etc.
What a load of bollocks, do you know how many people came here net the last two years? Unbelievable
Yup.
@@jemmajames6719 Do you know how many left?
@@jemmajames6719tell me please - we need skilled migrant workers.
@@jemmajames6719 Apparently you don't understand how statistics work and I'm sorry, I really CBA educating you. Just know you're not so bright...
As a Brit, in the 1980's, I visited Florida and was mugged/robbed within 100 yards and 15 minutes of arriving at the (quality) hotel. On another flight to Georgia, I sat in the wrong seat (misread my ticket) and was challenged by this old angry white guy who shouted "You're in the wrong seat, SIR". When I apologised and said "Pardon me, my mistake" and moved to the next row, he must have picked up on my English accent. He (yelled) "You're not just in the wrong seat, you're in the WRONG COUNTRY - WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!". I resisted the urge to say "You're not a native Indian, what are YOU doing here?". 20 years later I went to my brother's wedding (to an American girl) in Wisconsin. Her parents were the most welcoming and kind people I've ever met. The USA, to me, is a puzzle.
I live in a UK town of 300,000 or so and most years nobody gets shot and killed.
Most years? Which town because I want to avoid it! My nearest large town hasn’t had a single gun incident in living memory. Our newspaper is really boring! “Local Dog wins smelliest f@rts contest” is a main headline.
@@fionaparkinson3821 it’s Northampton, and I said most years for accuracy, because someone was shot and killed in 2019. It was done by druggy people who came from London especially for the job so to speak. I don’t know if there were any previously. To be honest nothing normally happens. I write a little joke blog about patrolling the mean streets of Northampton, and the highlights this week were, I saved a snail on the pavement, and someone put their bin out early and blocked a third of the pavement for a day more than they should have.
@@KevNpton Hope the snail was ok!
@@fionaparkinson3821 the snail is now living its best life in someone’s front garden. Today there’s a park run and there’s a sign about a tripping hazard, so I took a photo of it and todays report is going to be about tripping hazards. Wild times.
@@KevNpton latest news update! We’ve got a ladybird . She /he has been successfully relocated to the rambling rose.
Just to add to Kayln's excellent video, anyone can own a firearm in the UK (except handguns under 12 inches as these are banned post the last school massacre nearly 30 years ago). However you need to present the local police with a good reason you need a gun. They'll do background checks on you for 3-6 months before deciding to ok or not your application to have a gun. You are then licensed for a year and subject to checks by the police. You can not carry a gun in public unless en route to your farm fields and going to use. Carrying an illegal firearm is a serious offence with a 17 kid in my area found in possession of a gun and sentenced to 5 years in the hole!
All police towns and cities have specialist firearms units attached to them that can be called up for serious incidents. Every Time they fire their gun a independent body reviews whether they should have done so. Police killing someone in the UK is serious and is rare with 3 reported last year in the whole of the UK.
You want terrifying places to drive try Paris or Italy/Rome! 😳
MOTs shld be everywhere. I want to know the car I’m driving isn’t about to fall apart. And our driving test has a written exam that u have to pass, then a seriously strict driving test.
Bad habits creep in of course, but I think it sets up for general all round safety.
Malta!! Terrifying...
Istanbul 💀 ☠️
If you visit londons main tourist areas all you have to worry about are pickpockets , ive never felt unsafe here in the area i live which is in the outskirts of london . 😊
Speaking as a Brit, I don't think most Brits would think about safety as a major issue when travelling or moving abroad, except perhaps the USA or some volatile Middle-East country. Especially not to the extent of arming oneself.
Totally agree. As a female, I make a few adjustments, but I still feel I can manage my safety in the UK. Sometimes it feels like Europe is sandwiched between two extremes…
Homer, in The Odyssey has Telemachus saying, “The blade itself incites violence”. In other words the owning of a weapon can infer a sense of power, not only power but also, with it, a feeling of entitlement to use that power. It is, as far as I can tell, a true statement, that applies to a lot of people, especially those that have that sense of being empowered to use a weapon simply because it is to hand. The entitlement is part of an, “I’ve got a bigger stick and what I say goes" syndrome. This in turn leads to a, "well, I'm getting a bigger stick than you". This is how guns proliferate and why some people need more guns, need more powerful guns, all the way up to AR-15s.Take the guns out of society and the sense of empowerment is removed, the feelings of fear are relieved. Eventually a disdain for guns altogether. this is why gun companies use fear to sell product. They want an ever escalating arms war.
In 1979, my husband and I set off on a drive across the world in an old car. My husbands family asked what we would take for protection, would we take a gun? My feeling and luckily my husband's too was that it would elevate matters to a dangerous level. As it was, despite going through unstable countries and one with a recent revolution, we were shown extraordinary hospitality, kindness and help when needed. I can never ever join in the hate between religion rhetoric that is escalating nowadays.
On the gun law issue comparing and contrasting UK and the US, you may want to react to "UK gun laws Adam Explains". Too many US people seem to think there are outright bans on guns, and that is misleading. I think it gives a good idea of the dos and don'ts of gun ownership and usage here.
My sons girlfriend spent university time in Georgia US as part of her university course. She said she felt unsafe purely because peoplewere carrying guns - she said if she went to an event it was in the back of her mind “am I going to be shot”.
US knife crime is higher per capita than the UK it has nothing to do with the size of the population rather how the number of crimes break down to per thousand in a population. Its the argument that US gun culture ingores when quoting UK knife crime. Knife crime in the UK is a much more obvious and there for a bigger social issue. Because we don't have a horrific layer of firearm related crime swamping the issue into second place.
I believe there is also a difference in the definition of knife crime between US and UK. In the US it is only recorded as a knife crime if the knife has actually been used in a crime. In the UK, in certain circumstances, the possession of a knife can itself be recorded as a knife crime, even if it has not been used in a crime.. So the UK stats use a much wider definition but still a lower figure per capita.
Dunblane school massacre, mass shooting on March 13, 1996, in which a gunman invaded a primary school in the small Scottish town of Dunblane and shot to death 16 young children and their teacher before turning a gun on himself. The gunman, Thomas Hamilton, lived in the town.
@DianeLittle_dd6ej- Dunblane school massacre was almost 20 years ago; an extremely rare occurrence. Whereas in the USA, such mass murders are a fairly regular occurrence.
@cornishmaid9138 30 years
Please edit out the arseholes name.
Like Pharaoh once said " His name will be erased from all pylons and obelisks" etc.
It's the Children and Teacher that should be remembered.
@@cornishmaid9138 this was the reason for the strict gun control in uk
@@cornishmaid9138Nearly thirty years old.
I'm a Londoner born and bred. I used to get the night bus home from clubbing in Tottenham (bad area) to Kings Cross (bad area) and never felt unsafe. I was in Tottenham, talking to the protestors, half an hour before the riots kicked off in 2011. They were *fully* peaceful with little kids there, until the police shoved a girl.
Londoners are generally peaceful until pushed. Then FAFO.
There was an incident a couple of years ago in Birmingham UK, where a gang shot at a building (I think a barbershop) in a drive-by shooting. A couple of days later the "Barbershop gang" carried out a revenge drive-by shooting on a house. The strange thing was, and it's indicative of UK gun availability, is that the same gun was used in both incidents. Each gang had borrowed the same gun from the same lender.
Birmingham has been like that for years
@@10wanderer When my children were little, like 6 and 4, we went up to Birmingham for a Chinese meal. This was about 34 years ago and mobile phones were rare. We walked past a man leaning on an expensive car with a mobile and my six year old said in a loud voice "is he a drug dealer?" then a bit later there was a drunk on the pavement by a bus stop and my son said "Is that man dead?" No idea where he got those ideas from.
The UK policing is known as 'policing by consent'. The police power comes from the common consent of the public, as opposed to the state's power.
That's what the public believe, but it's bollocks, just a rumour started by those in power, like freedom of speech, the UK "constitution" and innocent until proven guilty.
Most of the mass casualty events we have had in the UK have been the result of foreign terrorist attacks, not homegrown lone shooters as so often happens in the US. Dunblane was an exception in this respect that caused major changes to our gun laws to prevent it happening again. Nowhere is perfectly safe unfortunately - there are parts of my own city in the North of England where I would be wary of venturing alone after dark.
Every city has criminals. I don’t go out walking at night either, it’s just common sense.
2 things , she says that she isn’t aware how long it would take armed police to respond, in London when there was that man with a suicide vest , members of the public took him on for 3.40 seconds with fire extinguishers , a narwhal tusk and chair legs. The armed police arrived very quickly but equally members of the public were no afraid to take him on , they knew he had knives but also knew he didn’t have a gun so were not afraid to get involved..
In the countryside there was a man who rampaged around Cumbria with a gun, it did take take almost a week for armed police to catch up with him him but that’s because he went into hiding and you have instances of those sorts of man hunts with armed police on every corner in the US.
Drill music , I am not denying that UK Drill music uses violent imagery and has been cited as one of the reasons for the increase in gang violence in SE London, but the violence is specifically knife violence not gun violence of which there has been no correspondent increase in gun violence since the increase in Drill music in the UK. The drill artists themselves say is an expression of the “ violence” with which the UK Conservative government disenfranchise youth society in the Uk. witthrowaribg community centres and benefits with decreased community policing , leaving nothing for these city youths to do other than gang together and hang around together.
Now as of early July 2024 we have a new Labour Government which has identified the need for more engagement with people and has an aim getting jobs for more people hopefully youth disenfranchisement will reduce especially as the right to vote is to be given to 16 and 17 year olds.
@dianeshelton9592
Vote at 16? Labour are doing that to ensure they stay in power because 16 year olds can't use the pedestrian crossings correctly never mind learn about politics. Typical Labour.
firearms officers known as authorised firearms officers (AFOs).
4:52 The rail company that blew up those chemical tanks when a train derailed had on their mission statement, no word of a lie shall i tell, 5 pillars that drive their business.
Safety was _third_
They literally wrote _SAFETY THIRD_ on the inside page of all their employees handbooks.
Behind something like (i forget the details)
Maximising shareholde value and growing the business or some such waffle.
*_THIRD_*
There is also far more knife crime in the US than the UK , & more crime in general. We are not afraid of our neighbours, or Government, here in the UK.
Armed police are available as required, & in important places there are heavily armed police.
Americans do seem kind of paranoid
A fact you may not know....the 1996 Dunblane shooting that was mentioned in the video was actually the school of UK tennis ace Andy Murray and his brother Jamie. Andy was about 9 at the time and actually knew Thomas Hamilton who was the shooter as he was their local youth/scout leader. Apparently Andys class was on their way to the gym when they heard the shots.
16 children died that day and 32 more children and adults were severely injured after the 3 minute spray of 105 bullets by Hamilton when he turned the gun on himself.
Andy and his family now does a lot for Dunblane and its survivors.
My Dad, in the UK, used to own shotguns. The police used to spot visit every few months to make sure our house was adequately secure and that they were stored out of sight and in a heavily locked, metal box. If you have certain medical conditions, they revoke your license.
CCTV cameras are monitored constantly so police can be notified immediately the operator notices anything .
The woman in the video said she felt safer if she spotted and armed police officer at, for example, a railway station.
For me, the opposite is true: I feel LESS safe when I see a police officer with a gun.
Actually, you're unlikely to see them at train stations, but you may see some at airports or at embassies (or in Downing Street).
The only place in the UK where police regularly carry guns, is Northern Ireland.
My husband doesn't like me walking about the town at night but to be honest it wouldn't bother me. I've never felt at risk in my 60+ years and the only time I felt slightly worried was as a 15 year old in Miami when I saw a police officer touching his gun
Once in Houston Texas I was pulled by a State trooper because I had turned and briefly driven on the left hand side! He was scary, mirrorred sunglasses, strict demeanour, barely said a word. I feel that if I had not been a tourist due to leave in a week he would have pursued it further.
Oh and yes, hand on gun!
America was a good idea but it got out of hand...
PS, that's why we walked away from there.....
Al Murray?
I am a old man now. When I was half my present age I did karate for about 4 years, one of my instructors was a police constable, one of my fellow students was too, and occasionally others came to the class. Just because there is no gun, don't assume anyone can push them around. Keep Reacting!
Worth mentioning that police training in the US varies from state to state but on average across the nation the training period is 21 weeks. In the UK it takes on average three years.
I’m 62 and I only seen a gun once in my life and that was when I left England for a visit with my American relatives in 79.You’ve got a lot of power with a gun in your hand.I can see the appeal for a gun,but give me safe England any day.
You had it in a nutshell - use your loaf (bread=head) & read the room. Be fully aware of where you are, who's around you & what your own instincts are telling you.
Loaf of bread is cockney rhyming slang. You could do an entire session on cockney slang & get incredible interpretations from people 🏴🇬🇧🏴🏴❤️
Only a matter of days ago three people were killed with a crossbow in the South of England. Already there are calls for such weapons to be regulated in the same way that guns are regulated. There are also irregular armistices for people to surrender weapons such as machetes, stilettos etc., at local police stations without fear of prosecution.
I've lived in both London and A small town in Norfolk called Attleborough.
When I travel from Norfolk to London "You can't go there, you will get murdered."
I go from London to Norfolk
"You can't go there, you will get murdered"
The biggest problem I experienced in either was my wallet being pick-pocketed. And that was returned because I only stored out of date credit cards and a expired id.
the uk policing system is known as policing by consent. the armed response units are generally given an area to operate within so there is a known response time for each area if they are required.
Dunblain was a Scottish primary school with children from 5yrs and up. March 13, 1996. 16 children & their teacher were killed. The gunman (who was local) then turned the gun on himself. I was 17 @ the time & in Secondary school when it happened. Looking towards Collage. It was shocking to watch the news reports of the time & see a primary school like id gone to & hearing other Scottish voices talking about the kids & teacher whose lives were lost.
She's slightly misinformed about UK gun law and more people have guns than you might think it's just not really good etiquette to go around talking about it, for instance if you only want a shotgun with a 3 round or less capacity it's remarkably easy to get the certificate
Maybe do a reaction to UK gun law
Cue the Texan couple in London complaining they felt unsafe because people don't have guns...
13:39 In the London Bridge terrorist attack, it took 7 mins for the Armed Response Unit police to arrive. In the meantime the street bobbies tackled the attackers, aided by the public.
You have misunderstood the point about USA having more knife crime than the UK. The point is each individual citizen in the US has a much higher change of being a victim of knife crime than a citizen on the UK . The rate is per capita not overall.
And the other thing is you discussed how violence could happen anywhere and you were very aware of how you carried yourself and had to be aware of how people were around you. Her whole point is that she didn’t feel that she had to be like that in the Uk.
She felt she could go to the shops, to a football match or a concert without the fear of someone with a gun going a rampage and killing a whole load of people .
Also “ the talk” it does depend where you live in the UK but most black mothers have not to have “ the talk” with their sons about the police. It also has to be said people in the UK are not frightened of the police, the police police by consent not by intimidation.
I live in the uk, (derbyshire) and can honestly say I don't think there's ever been a time in my life where I've felt unsafe when I'm out and about.
In the UK you have to have a real valid reason to have a gun, whether it’s sport/recreation which requires membership of a gun club, farming. That’s about it. Self defence is not considered a valid reason to have a gun.
If you have a weapon for self defence you are carrying a weapon for the purpose of causing harm to another person, so you are carrying a deadly weapon, which is a crime.
My dad was a police officer and he once arrested a guy for having a squeezy bottle of bleach. He claimed it was for cleaning his car windows, but he was parked near the house of someone he had a known beef with, so he was arrested because his excuse for having it wasn’t believed, it was assumed he was going to use it to squirt the fluid into the face of the other person, which made it a weapon, and got some handcuffs for having that weapon.
Depending on context you could be arrested for having a golf club, cricket bat, chair leg, knife etc. if it is believed you are carrying it for any purpose that could potentially harm another person.
America: “This is a stand your ground state!” Said by somebody carrying a concealed gun who fired it into someone, and that’s considered a valid sequence of events.
The difference in the driving test arises from a cultural difference as why it is given.
In the US you are tested to see if you know how to make the car move (i.e. drive the CAR)
In the UK (and Europe overall) you are tested to see if you know how to control a car safely in public (i.e drive on the ROAD)
Safety index ranking as of 2024: out of 163 countries: USA 128th, UK 37th, Canada first.
You don't get semi-automatic or fully automatic knives.
Just a point on the MOT test, she's not quite right on them not testing how a car runs, they do test emissions and smoke which is tied in to if a car is running properly, also if the car was not running properly ie misfiring or there was oblivious problem with the engine which could lead to catastrophic failure then the tester can fail the car because it's unsafe, though to be fair most MOT testers wouldn't start the test if the car had obvious engine faults especially if it sounds like the big ends are about to exit the cylinder block.
Re the police in the UK. Where I work, there is a mill building between a small river and a canal. My colleague was walking along the canal path to buy some lunch, she came back saying a man walked by her, talking on the phone next minute there was a carload of 4 plain clothes police in stab vests chasing him. He jumped into the river with police in pursuit and they caught him and dragged him out. I went out to see what was going on they had him sitting next to my car, while he coughed and spluttered and was sick on my wheel. They had the stab vests on the roof of my car. They couldn't fit him in their car so they had to wait for another one to arrive to take him off. They treated him humanely and they all stayed alive.
Only New Yorkers believe it you can drive in New York you can drive anywhere...
I challenge them to drive in Bangkok... They'd have a heart attack or just walk away from the vehicle...
or kolkata IMHO
😂 I've only been driven through Bangkok in a private taxi on the way to and from Hua Hin, but I got a wee taster of what you mean!
@@lindsaymckeown513 Knowing how to drive is only part of it, knowing how to negotiate multiple unmarked lanes of constantly moving traffic is an art form, a skill developed over time.
When I was in Thailand in general I never drove. Their one way systems are a Krypton Factor level puzzles to decipher. But their non-yielding yield is more a matter of telepathy or some advanced precognition.
The crazy thing is it looks like chaos, but when you're in one of those cars, they aren't panicking, overreacting or lost, it's quite strange to see them calmly define a route to where they're going and negotiate it without heavy braking or collisions.
I bet they would have a problem with our lanes.
@@Lily-Bravo Where is "our lanes"?
Guns are not illegal in the UK they are very heavily regulated and you need to have good reason to have them (PS self defence is not a good reason).
An MOT has to be obtained on year 3 the car was first registered i.e. It's 3rd birthday and every following 12 months. It has to pass various mechanical tests, tyre and emission tests etc. If it doesn't pass, the certificate will not be issued until the repairs are carried out. It is illegal for your car to be on the road without an MOT certificate and you will be subject to fines and points on your licence if caught. Police can check online to confirm if you have a valid certificate.
We have policing by consent in the uk
ammm did have ?
Sorry for your loss, my condolences to you and your family. ❤
The UK has around ~50-70 deaths caused by firearms each year in average, I think.
The US experiences something like 42-43,000 deaths by firearms each year.
The UK can be lot more violent than the USA, as we traditionally have had a drink culture, especially evident on a Friday or Saturday night out. Add to that, the current drug culture, and it is easy to find trouble. The difference is, because we don’t carry guns here, very few people actually get shot. 29 gun homicides last year, I believe? We do also have armed police, contrary to popular belief, instantly on call for situations that require their presence. These officers are very professional and highly trained.
Generally in a city the nearest armed response unit is about 10 to 15 minutes away.
Somewhere I watched a reactor I followed did a reaction to where the British armed police unit was called for a man who was threatening someone with a gun. They turned up attempted to de escalate. The man shot at the police on multiple occassions, but eventually was taken in safely with no shots being fired from the police. The American was astounded because in the conversation afterwards the police sniper said he did not shoot because it sounded like blanks. THATS TRAINING. You give your guns to badly trained idiots. To be on the Armed Police Response Team in the UK most have over a decade of experience ..... so a history of having a calm and measured personality under stress. I have watched many skittish US police pointing guns at people just because they don't want to get on the ground because of George Floyd.
i agree with you about the way you act and being aware of your surroundings - life expewrience
Guns are not illegal in the UK. They are just treated as a privilege, not a right. There are youtube videos on uk gun laws. Take a look at them - you might be surprised.
I have only seen a gun once where I live. Years back about 2am a police helicopter was scanning the village I live in. I live next to a ma8n road and there is a gap in the headge on to my road and a Liverpool gun man found the gap the village was covered in armed police. We just had to stay away from the windows. The police got the 2 of them, the whole thing was amazing but is the only time I have seen a gun in the village and I have lived here 22 years.
I have also only seen guns at large train stations and its not many.
In the UK the police have armed response vehicles (ARV’s) which can usually be on scene in around 6 minutes. Major cities will have many of these cars on duty at any one time. They are seriously tooled up with semi automatic rifles and handguns.
I think we've always been more of a blade culture, even when guns were allowed.
It's a pity she didn't mention food safety.
two things, i will leave it two comments, guns and police, as mentioned in another comment, our armed police are highly trained, and usually trained by milatry people, ex forces of high rank, i know this because my brother trained armed response, he was in the parachute regiment, they are also trained, to shoot one bullet, then when safe to give first aid, not empty 2 mags, then stand around waiting for an ambulance, with ill trained staff on the ambulances, like the US
Maybe I'm foolish, but I stayed in a motel in LA, and found out later it wasn't a place to stay that was safe, but it seemed ok to me, just a little rough around the edges.
In my 65 years of living in many different areas in the UK, including London for 10 years, I have never felt unsafe or threatened anywhere. I'm pleased London has so much CCTV surveillance; it adds to the sense of safety and I don't get the whole concern about privacy - if you are out and about in public, you are in public and as long as you are not doing anything shady why would you be concerned about being recorded on CCTV?
To quote the late great Terry Pratchett. "The shortest time ever recorded is that gap between the traffic lights charging and the New York taxi driver behind leaning on his horn".
Imagine a country where you get pulled over for a tail light been out by a jumper cop, you make a sudden move and your dead. Welcome to the USA.
The UK have armed rapid response units, who can arrive at an incident quite quickly. Armed police are stationed in high target areas e.g Airports.
There is drill over here. It's a big genre
she did a good wee video. enjoyed the reaction . cheers.
I think her experiences are a pretty reasonable reflection of how London can be. I lived there for 26 years and it was not feeling unsafe that had me move. If I were a young man or youth I feel the experience might be different in certain areas of poverty/disadvantage but I think that's probably common in most cities across the West.
As for driving, yes, you have to have a minimum set number of lessons, ideally, then take a theory and a practical test and the examiner will tend to err on the side of caution. If you are under 25 your insurance will be higher and even higher if you are driving a high powered car. I passed my test in London and drove there many years so, like New York, it does hone your reflexes!
The police in the UK who do have firearms are called Armed Response Units. I am British and live in the USA and I can tell you that the UK is MUCH safer than the USA in every way I can think of . However it's not just the UK, but pretty much all of Europe. Kids in Europe walk to school alone and are safe. That said, I personally feel perfectly safe wherever I happen to be.
21:45 But it think it’s the fact you have to be that ‘aware’ which really marks the difference between the US and UK/Europe. Living with that undercurrent of unease isn’t healthy.
The issue about Drill music is that it lacks authenticity.....it is hard to have a music genre all about shooting people when there are only 1000 to 2000 firearms incidents per year 2022/23 there were 28 gun deaths that were homicides, So in a population of 60-70 million. It is a rare event. Not to say being shot but not dying is fun
I'm a dual US/UK citizen. Is the US safer than the UK, not a chance!
Middlesbrough is one of tje most deprived places in england , it has been since i was a lad , would love to see a reacrion to that . Awsome vid mate .
in my village which is small there has not been a murder sincw records began and that is a lomg time , also when my son who had been out clubbing would ring me at 2 am to say he thought he heard a badger i would walk down the lane to meet him lol with no worries
We have a special unit in the Met Police called SO19 in the UK. Specialist Firearms Command is the firearms unit of the Metropolitan Police.
To get a gun licence you have to have a reason for owning one:
* Sporting gun? Fine. Which gun club do you belong to? None? Oh dear.
* Self defence? No. ('Home invasions' aren't a thing. Burglers want empty houses; if someone's in - they stay away.)
* Farmer? No problem.
'Only criminals will own guns'. But they don't, because if caught committing a crime with a gun - whether used or not, possession is enough - an extra 5 to 10 years will be added to the sentence, and someone with a gun will be chased by the police with **extra passion**.
When it comes to knife crime in the UK what you will find its the younger teenagers, mostly boys that are both victim and perpetrator. Usually drug /gang related. The victims Usually know the perpetrator aswell. The average person just going about their daily business being randomly attacked is not common. Obviously it seems like alot because that is what makes the news. There has been a rise of knife crime because there has been a rise in kids getting involved in gangs and drugs.
We have a right to be safe and that extends beyond access to guns but also feeds into other things like how custody/abuse/road infrastructure/event regulations are handled as well
My wife and I have been rubbed twice in London. The thieves seem to know where the CCTV cameras are. We have been in 17 different states in USA and have never been rubbed there. Driving is much safer in the UK and in Europe. Traffic fatalities are five times higher in the USA compared to the UK. Being 66 years old I prefer mainland Europe and avoid the USA and the UK.
My sister in her sixties started travelling abroad late in life. She was pickpocketed in Paris and again when she went for a river cruise in Europe. She has lived in London all her adult life and never had a problem.