I've been to plenty of transport hubs, tourist attractions, capitols, etc. in the US, too. Or maybe I've been fortunate in that all the police in all the high-visibility places I've visited in the US don't patrol carrying long guns.

(And the only capitol I visited in Europe was Austria.)

> Rest assured that the small town cops in Europe don’t patrol with MP5s

I understand this. And it wasn't part of my post :)