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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 302657" data-attributes="member: 463">On crime - they reported a few months ago that mugging rates in London (where I live) are now six times those in New York.  Probably higher now, teenagers are mugged for their mobile phones (cellphones) here with astonishing frequency.  Rates of many property crimes are also higher here in the UK than in the USA, burglary is much higher.  OTOH murder rates in the USA, while they have fallen, still vastly exceed those in any other first world country, and that seems to be the case even for small-town USA, compared to small-town England, say.  I don't think there's much doubt that guns are the reason for that, just as cars are the reason for American obesity.  British people have bad diets too, and our children are getting less exercise and getting fatter, but most of us  _have_ to get some exercise, because often walking - walking to the bus stop, maybe - is the only practical way to get anywhere. BTW I'm sceptical of the argument that long working hours are the cause of obesity - unemployed people tend to be among the fattest, in the USA as in the UK.</blockquote>