Texas,

Since you appear to live in Texas, not England, can I suggest you shut up about England? England is not a "slave society", nor is the "violent crime rate has exploded exponentially since they were disarmed" true, not least since we were never "armed" in the first place.

I assume you're referring to the gun laws passed in the wake of the Dunblane massacre. Curiously enough, since then we *haven't* had a succession of Columbine's et al...

Violent crime has risen because it's risen. A more restrictive (& probably unnecessary, TBH) gun law that took weapons away from a very small minority of the population had nothing to do with it. In my *personal* opinion (gut feeling, no statistics) the rise in violence has more to do with a combination of the increasing Americanisation of British culture, & the increasing selfishness within it (please note - I'm not implying a direct link between those two!) from the late 70's onwards.