An interesting piece appeared on the BBC earlier this week. It starts out showing Darwnism taking a strange twist, and then proceeds into a very interesting perspective on guns in the United States.
What surprises the British tourists is that, in areas of the US that look and feel like suburban Britain, there is simply less crime and much less violent crime.
Doors are left unlocked, public telephones unbroken.
Go give the whole article a read. I found it to be an unusual perspective for a European, if you count the UK as Europe.