What like of weapons are they allowed in Britain? Cricket bats?
I was there one time and my daughter-in-law is an actress and was in a play where the theaters are. We went to a restaurant to eat after the play, and there was a buzz in the crowd and policemen were everywhere. A terrible disaster had just happened. Someone had killed a person with a knife. It was as if the world had ended. Everyone was shocked.
The next day, a reenactment of the murder was done to try to give the cops a lead. I don't know if they ever caught who did it, but that was the only murder in England at that time to talk about and was all over the paper. How many people in this country get killed in one day?
People get murdered there by knives, pills, strangling by hands, hanging, beating until dead, etc., but that's done inside - seldom is there a murder “in public”.
As far as English people storing, I doubt many do. This generation are the children and grandchildren of those who went through WWII. In my opinion, having gone there for over 20 years and mingled with the people, there is still a mindset to “endure” hardship rather than use innovation or preparation to make it better. Yes, my daughter-in-law is a freaking English liberal and thinks I am crazy for prepping and her upper lifestyle friends think the same.
So, I'm there one time and the water went off. There was one small bottle of unopened water in that house. The water was off for hours and no one knew why. Well, if they had stored some water, they would have been fine until it finally came back.
I've got other stories about that country, having lived there for weeks at a time over the many years.
You don't want to live there in an emergency.