@ Argus Tuft
" I wonder how we escape such terror in the good ol' USA"
probably because the hoons can have much more fun with fully automatic assault rifles.. ;-)"
Um. No. Automatic weapons have been banned for EVERYONE except a few people with incredibly impossible to get FFL permits. They have been banned since 1968. You watch WAY too much American Television.
Its semi-auto variants at best. "My AK is semi auto" And to obtain even THAT legally involves plenty of background checks. And carry permits only goes to stable people with zero drug or criminal history. "Arizona and Texas not withstanding"
And you know what? We don't get these "home invasion" crimes that seem to be so thick in the UK . Guess why? Its DANGEROUS. 3-4 kids break into your house in England, what are you going to do? You get beat up, "if you are lucky" your belongings are stolen and in three to four hours the police show up and take a report. Then nothing happens. Maybe they get caught and spend eight months or so in revolving door prison. Then they go out and do it again.
That just isn't an issue here. Breaking into a residence when people are HOME is simply a silly way to die. "Unless you live in a no gun state" even then its no guarantee. If you notice the "shootings" we have seen have all been in places with zero tolerance gun bans. Every single one of them.
We have our problems, starting with President fathead and going on down. But we don't seem to be under the control of gangs of unemployed loitering teens just hanging around to hurt people and beak things. When you disarm everyone, everybody winds up controlled by the biggest gang, and that seem to display your situation admirably.
Please try to separate the actual US from the one you see on TV.