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Originally Posted by petrolhead611
Killing someone for "violating your space" in England would earn you a life sentence in jail. Just saying.
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Killing someone for simply 'violating your space' would also land you in prison here as well. The biker used a weapon, his helmet, to smash the cars window. He had shown clearly that his intentions were to cause physical harm.
If you were walking down a street in Leeds, and someone attacked you with a cricket bat, would you be expected to simply stand there and be beaten? What if you took out a knife and stabbed the attacker, and he died? If the later would land you in prison, then I find that distasteful. I think the law should lean firmly on the rights of those that are law abiding, and firmly against those that chose to commit acts of violence.
As others have said, the media vastly distort the situation in the US. The extreme levels of violence and crime in a select few dense urban areas dramatically inflate the numbers. If you removed the criminal statistics from Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia, the results would be markedly different. You can travel this country from coast to coast in perfect safety.