Strollin' Johnny,

Your statement "The standard bobby on the beat has no firearm" suggests that little has changed in the last 40 years. That is good news. Most Americans, especially those of us in rural areas, have never been to Gt. Britain and get all of our information about it from news and entertainment media.

A recent survey stated that 60% of English were so unhappy with the crime, noise and violence in their native land that they wanted to move to another country. Any country. I hope that is not true because there is no obvious place for them to go.