You know I'm British right? Have you ever considered the fact that weapon crimes are generally lower because overall crime is lower? I think economic factors would be far more likely to affect violent crime especially with weapons than the existence of inanimate object. The UK for instance is a shithole you ask somebody from Manchester what they think of gun control, I guarantee you won't get the same sort of responses as somebody living in France, by the way, we have very tough gun control laws over here and it's apparently very easy to get guns in the right places if you know people.
I didn't know you were British but it doesn't really change anything.
And yeah I considered this possibility but it's wrong. in fact crime in a whole is a bit higher in France than in the USA.
Difference is in the USA they rape and kill, and here they simply beat the fuck out of you and steal you ^^
And there are always some shitty places in a country. Go in the 93 in France and you'll see lots of shit trust me. But the important is to see the things as a global situation. On a whole it seems really not bad to have gun control. We get less violent crimes and less rapes.