@layman,
The British government has an awful lot of stupid **** to answer for. After the debacle at Dunkirk there was a very real danger of Germans finding a way to invade the place. The Germans would've been armed of course but the British, as Santino Corleone put it, would have been standing there with just their d***s in their hands.
A giant and urgent call went out in the United States, asking people to donate any extra rifles or other firearms which they might have to the noble cause of saving England. Americans who own firearms of course generally own more than one or two or three of such. Boat load after boat load of the extra firearms particularly rifles went across the Atlantic. A lot of those were 30:06 caliber Springfield rifles which had been made into hunting rifles.
So that England was saved, but guess what? That's right, the day after the war ended the fricking British government re-confiscated and destroyed all those rifles and the British people went back to their normal status as sheep.
The hope in the world at this point is the Internet age, in which stupid and evil **** cannot simply be hidden. Peter McLaughlin, author of "Easy Meat"claims that the problem of grooming gangs is throughout England and not just among one or two towns and villages which you read about. That says you could take the thousand - 1500 figure which you read about in Rotherham and other places in the news and multiply that by the number of towns, cities, and incorporated places in England. That translates into several hundred thousand English children, mostly early teen and pre-teen girls, being sucked into the vortex of those pedophile grooming gangs which Donald Trump is now waging an international war against. If the English people are not seriously pissed over that, then there would have to be something seriously wrong with them. That is an entire generation of English women who should be raising their own children now, who are simply dad, MIA, or too damaged to think about raising children.