People own guns in this country. More people own guns in this country than elsewhere in the Western World.
More people do get shot in this country, too.
That is not an argument to curtail gun ownership, however.
Great Britain is struggling with moral decline and a crime wave of disorder, due in part to the welfare state which has taken over in Great Britain at a faster rate than in the United States.
An increase in police shootings would indicate the reason for the lower crime rate, perhaps. The spate of police officer shooting which receive media attention may also touch on the paucity of news which stimulates as well as educates.
The tragedy which erupted in Aurora, CO, is not a call for gun control, but a reminder that we live in a fallen world, and that curtailing our freedoms will not make it less fallen. Expanding the freedom of men and women to protect themselves, however, would be a better policy move, which would permit poor and working-class individuals to make due in communities where police action is not as swift because of the management of resources or the higher density of criminality.