Yeah. And the UK has no gun crime because of it... oh wait... it's gone UP since the ban.
In my home country (not UK) less than 4% of the population owns a gun and I actually feel safer than I ever would/did in the USA...
And guess what, criminals around here typically also don't carry guns!
Just to be clear here, I've been to the military as well and loved to handle guns there - still I would only in very rare circumstances ever consider of buying a gun myself.
its a false sense of security (last i checked which was a few years ago). per capita, the UK has just slight HIGHER rates of murder.
dead is dead. doesn't matter if its a gun or a knife that does it to you.
i own a gun. i view it as an insurance policy. i hope i never need it, but i'll be glad i have it if god forbid i ever do.