'We have more gun crimes because tada, we are allowed to have guns. In England, the only citizens with guns are the criminals.'
Do you realise what nonsense that argument is?
If I follow your logic, you mean that when you allow people to own guns, you get a lot more murders? I'm not sure the NRA would agree with you! :D
Or perhaps you mean although our crminals are armed, we only have 2 or 3 of them and that accounts for the very low 62 gun murders per year? I don't think you thought that statement out very well before posting!
FYI - I am English, not a criminal and I own three guns!
Yup. That's why we don't allow felons to posses firearms. If we were to ban automobiles, highway fatalities would plummet.
However, Switzerland is eat up with guns. It all has to do with population. For instance, I live in a region with one of the highest per-capita gun ownership rates (Appalachia). But murders are extremely rare here. I could change the statistics and probably make our murder rate less than yours. We just get rid of the most-populated areas