"You stick around in a devolving country, where vandalism is applauded and violence is on the increase. I'll continue to live here is (generally) peace and quiet."

OK Rap, eat this:-

From Wikipedia - "The number of homicides committed with firearms has remained between a range of 49 and 97 in the 8 years to 2006. There were 2 fatal shootings of police officers in England and Wales in this period and 107 non-fatal shootings - an average of 9.7 per year over the same period.[27]

In 2005/6 the police in England and Wales reported 50 gun homicides, a rate of 0.1 illegal gun deaths per 100,000 of population. Only 6.6% of homicides involved the use of a firearm. [27]"

That's between 49 and 97 per year, Rap - 50 in 2005/6. In a country with a population of 60m. The US has 300m population so, pro-rata the UK rate up to reflect the US population and you get between 245 and 485, should have been 250 for 2005/6. In fact, your country has >3,000 homicides by shooting per year. That's twelve times the UK rate.

So Rap, who is it who lives in the more peaceful country?