Conservatives need to stop making rational, fact-based arguments with liberals. Low information voters do not think, they feel. Just about everyone believes in the right of self defense. Touchy-feely stories about grandma defending herself and her cat from thugs or a young minority female shooting a rapist instead of living the rest of her life in fear is very effective when compared to facts and figures.
Personally, I could care less about crime rates and gun control in other countries. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pot, el.al. are the result of gun confiscation. That has nothing to so with everyday crime and everything to do with crimes against humanity. Just wait for the 13th Imam to rise and most of Europe can await their death at the hands of the Muslim horde.
You are so right, and that is exactly why stories like that are rarely seen in the MSM.