[PowderMonkey]

Oops. Poor fella. Looks like one BBC correspondent will soon be recalled to the U.K. for heretical writings. Over the years I've met dozens of British expats who chose life in the US. Many of them upon attaining US citizenship, celebrated by visiting a local gun shop and purchasing their first firearm. Welcome to America.

[alligator]

If you go to the American Thinker article, there is a link to the BBC reporters report. I went and read his original report and he really doesn't connect the dots... He associates the peacefulness in America to alcohol drinking habits!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7359513.stm

"What surprises the British tourists is that, in areas of the US that look and feel like suburban Britain, there is simply less crime and much less violent crime.

Doors are left unlocked, public telephones unbroken.

One reason - perhaps the overriding reason - is that there is no public drunkenness in polite America, simply none.

I have never seen a group of drunk young people in the entire six years I have lived here. I travel a lot and not always to the better parts of town."

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Many of them upon attaining US citizenship, celebrated by visiting a local gun shop and purchasing their first firearm. Welcome to America. "

It's sort of a right of passage....