People may think its still a safe country, a country that is safer than the US, but they arent blind to its violence.
You are making the error of seeing them say its a safe country means they think its a violence free utopia. Believe me, everyone of all sides, everyone in the UK KNOWS its more violent than it was 20,30, 50 years ago.
Also a lot of the ‘pro-UK’ comments are usually made in regards to a US violence story, like the recent shootings. Brits on these pages tend to post how grateful they feel that as violent as the UK seems, it also seems much less violent when compared to the US. I read the Daily mail, Telegraph etcd online. I even post on the DM site.
I think its a great and overall a safe country to live in, but I know as well that there is violence and violent people and areas.
Yeah, well, they'd be wrong.