not tiny at all...making excuses
Uh, what? Have you looked at a globe? Do so again. The UK and Japan are tiny compared to the US, which actually has borders attached to other land masses. Oh, and they are ISLANDS, surrounded on all sides by large bodies of water.
Small land masses surrounded by water, compared to a GIANT land mass not separated from their neighbors (one of which has uber strict gun laws, but still manages to have daily slaughters involving illegal firearms that make ours look like childs play).
Makes it much, much easier to smuggle things in, like, oh, I don't know, drugs, illegal aliens, and guns,.
C'mon dude, think.