30 British People Share “Totally Normal” Things That Are “Nonexistent” In America

The solution is to ban firearms, it's worked in other 'developed' countries around the world (the U.K being one of them) as long as the U.S seems to value money from the gun industry over the lives of their children I don't hold out much hope for our transatlantic cousins.

@ Donald: Most recent estimates suggest there's a total of 400-450 million guns in the US the large majority of which are unregistered. No one really knows with any degree of certainly but that's the latest guesstimate. However your point about banning them is spot-on. I've yet to see any reasonable plan that would make wide-scale 'gun-banning' even remotely feasible. It sounds good, but considering are hundreds of million of firearms in the US and government/law enforcement have no idea where they are or who owns them, how could they be banned? To add another layer: An unintended consequence of 'gun banning' would almost certainly be an increase in the value of firearms in general, which would drive a significant number them to the black market and ultimately into the hands of criminals. So there's that, too.

"We didn't always have mass shootings this frequently" WTF?

The ratio is 120.5 civillian firearms per 100 people. On average, everyone including babies own a gun in the Land of Free. A scary situation.

The people with the most firepower can only use one at a time. And most of them won't risk jail or want to shhot police. It's only the worst 1% you have to worry about. And lets face it, they are the ones you really don't want owning guns. US has a weird attitude, personal rights over what's best for society.

I'm pretty sure the entire population isn't even 400 million. Take away the kids, the elderly and the socially conscious who actually are anti gun and you have about 80 to 100 million MAX with multiple weapons, that's CRAZY.

If you look at gun crime figures in the UK and Australia there made no difference when guns were banned this is irrefutable in fact in the UK gun crime went up 2 fold..so whatever the police were doing to stop gun crime thay must have stopped. banning guns had nothing to do with it ..only the good guys give up the guns

The eggs are two-sided. One side has the candy, and the other side has the toy.

Now leave before I taunt you a second time!

Depends on if it is fully laden or not

And you are the spitting image of her 🤣

What if we made this huge wooden badger...

Of course it's a tax, but it's free *at the point of use* That's how any national service works. Nobody says that the fire or police services are hoaxes because those who pay taxes are paying for them. I'm very happy paying my small amount extra each month so those who aren't working (children, elderly, disabled etc) can get free healthcare.

Hey Vera congrats on that big promotion at that pharmaceutical firm you work for......

It's the absolute literal proper purpose of a tax fgs. You pay tax for all community required infrastructure. Schools, police, fire, roadworks, garbage management, parks and recreation...why would you not contribute to health, especially if it saves lives. You even already pay for social services to some degree. I paid without using much for my 1st 30 years of working life, believe me I got it back 100x over when I was saved from uterus cancer and then sepsis due to infected Gall bladder. Both long processes with heaps of expensive tests, mris, cat scans, operations, extended hospital stays.

My understanding is NHS has its own set of challenges. But I would still rather have it.

That's what they want you to think. The NHS is funded by tax and when you realize that the very small amount of higher tax we pay gives us a whole lot more than what you get in the US. Look outside the US at prices for medicine and then ask yourself who is getting ripped off when it comes to the moment you need medical attention. USA could easily have something very much similar to the NHS but your government is enjoying the backhanders the medical insurance companies give them to ignore it

Paid for childcare?

Nowadays it's more likely to be "on the lash".