That is why you pay taxes. Notice, apart from the odd plantpot, all the
people from the UK on this thread are firmly against guns and the police
being armed. While the Americans are the opposite. Why? Because our
society doesn't need them for us to walk around safely. If your society
entails that you need a gun to safely go to the shops for some milk, then
start looking at your society and aim to change it at the root level. Aim
for the best.
Again pointing out the different mind sets. In the UK you want someone to
take care of and protect you. In the US we want to be able to take care of
and protect ourselves.
In the UK mind set you have to have a nearly all powerful government. One
that watches you like big brother and has to power to tell you what you need
and don't need. If you like that fine but don't be so pig headed to realize
that some people don't want to live that way.
Some people like living in cities where people are pack together like rats
in a cage. Others like living out in the boonies where their nearest
neighbor is miles away. Still others like the in-between. Each life style
has advantages and disadvantages but is one than the other? IMO, no. Some
people think so and will go on and on about why their way is better and how
the other way stinks.
As for me, I'm an independent type. I live out in the boonies (not as far
as before but still well out of suburbia), hunt, fish, raise a lot of my own
food and don't depend on nor want the government to protect me. Mainly
because when other people start protecting you they start telling you how to
live.
If you don't like living that way, fine. But don't go telling me how much
better you way of life is. For every 'bad' point you bring up I have a
'good' point.
