“CBS News report proclaimed Great Britain ‘one of the most violent urban societies in the Western world.’ … Defensive gun ownership is entirely illegal [in Britain], and considered an insult to the government, since it implies that the government cannot keep the peace. Thus, in one recent notorious case, an elderly man who had been repeatedly burglarized, and had received no meaningful assistance from the police, shot a pair of career burglars who had broken into the man’s home. The man was sentenced to life in prison.” http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment071800c.html