@heavyreader - Please go and rethink your life, talk in some reasonable sense and stop abusing my language, I'm proud to be British and my language is something I'm proud of so stop giving us a bad name by you being illiterate or lazy.Nothing in my post is unsupported. As for the "not white boys mad that they can't get drunk in front of a Mosque" - No, they didn't get drunk in front of a Mosque, did you read my post at all or do you simply not comprehend logical structures when I string a sentence together. I said they walk past it or went near it when returning from a night out, can you say you've never had one or two too many? So, they walk home past the Mosque, not causing trouble and the Islamic extremists are the ones who turn violent. We understand culture very well and I am tolerant, but I am not tolerant when immigrants come to our country, disrespect everything the British name stands for and then expect us to respect them as if they are divine. I know Muslims, some of them are fine people and not practicising, most of them however are not respectful of our culture as we are to them and the British public have had enough."our gun violence is linked primarily to poverty and the abandonment of a whole chunk of society that needs it the most" - Or because you have guns to begin with? The UK faces similar issues to the US, we always have and always will for some time, we have poor areas and places let down by our government too, but they don't suddenly start spending money (when they're supposed to be poor) on buying firearms. What a ridiculous idea.For colonialist brutality, then perhaps you're going to realise most Americans are from the British/European line of descent, we weren't brutal to our own people, we were brutal however against the native population I will give you that - but by that admission, you are from the same descendants so don't try and wipe your slate clean from that.Quoteoh, wait, is it because there is a huge number of issues surrounding the intersection of race, class and religion that your country has done everything possible to sweep under the rug?? oh, no, that's not why all those kids rioted a while back, it's just cuz they're all entitled little brown assholes that think they deserve your white jobs and your white medical care and your white FUCKING EVERYTHINGAn intersection of race? The UK has given these people benefits, given them houses, shelters them from virtually any country in the world. The UK has the most soft power and influence in the world of any country. Don't believe me, go ask the OECD who collate all that data. We have welcomed many cultures, religions, beliefs and everything else for many years, heck we were one of the first countries where the courts stopped recognising slavery in law, the time of abolishing it there were very few slaves at all since they held the same right as the common man. The communities and minorities who do fall seperate of the main society have done so themselves and to be honest, I'm not surprised, it is human nature to hang around with those most similar to you which is why we don't have around with birds very often, or rabbits etc. Nothing has stopped the migrating population from integrating successfully but their own attitudes when they disagree with our culture so intentionally segregate themselves.If you actually knew anything about the riots, you'd know it was the idiots of the country running wild for a day or two, it was very few people in comparison with the whole population and if you take a look at the arrest statistics and demographics of those participating in the riots, you'll find the same pattern of the unemployed black youths or illegal immigrants. The vast majority of the UK does not feel entitled to much, it aggravates us however when we pay high taxes to foreign aid whilst cutting our own services and can fund 50,000 a year in benefits for an illegal immigrant but then decide to cut the welfare payments of the disabled and military veterans who have paid into the system all their life. That is what enrages the British public - not the ignoramus and fallacies you have put forward.As for nobody would have shot them in America - many of your fellow citizens disagree on the forum from those I've spoken to and I've seen your cops pretty regularly shoot people for simply not putting down a knife, yet alone beheading one of our soldiers who was raising money for charity in his own time.