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Originally Posted by HardDrive

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'm not from the uk, or an expert on their laws, but based on the articles that I've read on the BBC website makes me believe that you would end up in jail. Carrying a knife is illegal in Britain. Yeah, I think you would be in jail for a long time.

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.

I read the BBC news website several days a week and I read about lots of violent crime, shootings, stabbings,deadly beatings, etc....