England is So Safe Now That They Have Taken Away All the Guns...

...and the citizens ability to defend themselves:

Gang members 'used ferocious dogs to attack four teenagers before stabbing a boy to death'

The bottom line, is that evil people will use whatever means necessary to perpetrate their brutality. If the victim had been armed with a .45, the pooches would be in doggie heaven and the perpetrators would be at the morgue instead of him.