An explanation, from a gun nut.

[DanielW]

58. here's the facts, the last one is crucial to this discussion..

The UK has approximately 125 percent more rape victims per 100,000 people each year than the United States does.

The UK has approximately 133 percent more assault victims per 100,000 people each year than the United States does.

The violent crime rate in the United States actually fell from 757.7 per 100,000 in 1992 to 386.3 per 100,000 in 2011.  During that same time period, the murder rate fell from 9.3 per 100,000 to 4.7 per 100,000.  This was during an era when gun laws in the United States generally became much less aggressive.

Approximately 200,000 women in the United States use guns to protect themselves against sexual crime every single year.

Overall, guns in the United States are used 80 times more often to prevent crime than they are to take lives.

Down in Australia, gun murders increased by about 19 percent and armed robberies increased by about 69 percent after a gun ban was instituted.

The UK has the fourth highest burglary rate in the EU.

The UK has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU.

Despite the very strict ban on guns in the UK, the truth is that the UK is a far more violent society than the United States is.  In one recent year, there were2,034 violent crimes per 100,000 people in the UK.  In the United States, there were only 466 violent crimes per 100,000 people during that same year.