"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message ...
Most criminals know that shooting cops is a really BAD idea.

Yet around 150 are killed and 230 injured in the US every year and US cops
are armed while British police typically are not.

I prefer things our way.


Your way didn't work too well in Northern Ireland. Nothing significant
was accomplished there until there was significant international
assistance with the interdiction effort.

You can't expect the rest of the world to act like sheep, and that is
precisely why the British foisted their biggest police problems on
others -- in their colonies that is, rather than at home.

Americans have nowhere to run. Our problems are here, and we have to
stay here to deal with them, instead of running away from the problems
like the Brits.