I suppose it's the combination of the law allowing people to have guns and people like Olddude having them that makes a frightening situation. Yeah, we have idiots who go around saying they used to be in the paras etc but their only weapon is a pint pot or keyboard. They might glorify bang bang but they aren't allowed to have any.

You can get firearm licences in The UK for hunting and target sport, but it involves an interview with the police who also inspect your safes. I can say with full certainty that if Olddude said any of his scary shit to the interviewing policeman that he has said above, he would be classified as not fit to hold a firearm licence.

But he doesn't live here. So whatever Mickey Mouse registration licence they give out where he lives is different. Licences here specifically preclude self defence. They also preclude most lethal firearms that would be of interest to armed criminals anyway.

We agonise over gun crime here, yet the figures for The UK as a whole don't even reach that of a single LA neighbourhood.