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Britain and the US have distinctly different cultural influences that extend into any arguments regarding personal safety. If you see ownership and responsibility of your personal safety as a continuum with "It's Personal and therefore MY responsibility" on one end and "Professionals (the Government) should take care of this for me" at the other, Americans trend toward the "Its Personal" end and the British tend toward the nanny state end. Note, though, that criminals on both sides of the pond understand that their safety is dependent on what they do and how they do it. In Britain this means that the criminals are more likely to have a monopoly of force (or at least they can project force more beyond arms' reach). Criminals in America have to go to the trouble to look for Gun Free (target rich) zones to be so likely to have the monopoly of force.