Getting rid of all guns doesn't get rid of violent crime, and in fact can lead to a rise of violent crime.
Look at this paper from the Fraser Insitute and Dr. Gary Mauser, as published by Public Safety Canada, circa 2003.
https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/lbrr/...n32226-eng.pdf
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Britain
In the past 20 years, both Conservative and Labour governments have introduced restrictive firearm laws; even banning all handguns in 1997. Unfortunately, these Draconian firearm regulations have totally failed. The public is not any safer and may be less safe.
Police statistics show that England and Wales are enduring a serious crime wave. In contrast to handgun-dense United States, where the homicide rate has been falling for over 20 years, the homicide rate in handgun-banning England and Wales has been growing.
In the 1990s alone, the homicide rate jumped 50%, going from 10 per million in 1990 to 15 per million in 2000. Police statistics show that violent crime in general has increased since the late 1980s and, in fact, since 1996 has been more serious than in the United States. The firearm laws may even have increased criminal violence by disarming the general public. Despite Britain’s banning and confiscating all handguns, violent crime,
and firearm crime, continue to grow.
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And may I mention that in the last 7-10 years knife attacks in the UK have skyrocketed, so much so that they have knife drop boxes and are considering banning sharpened or pointy knives.
So, yeah, it's complicated. The stats don't always back up what people seem to think is the logical or easy answer.
Also, in the U.S., with the highest civilian gun ownership in the world, violent crimes rates have dropped a 49-74% since 1993.
As per this Pew Research article:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...me-in-the-u-s/
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Using the FBI data, the violent crime rate fell 49% between 1993 and 2019, with large decreases in the rates of robbery (-68%), murder/non-negligent manslaughter (-47%) and aggravated assault (-43%). (It’s not possible to calculate the change in the rape rate during this period because the FBI revised its definition of the offense in 2013.) Meanwhile, the property crime rate fell 55%, with big declines in the rates of burglary (-69%), motor vehicle theft (-64%) and larceny/theft (-49%).
Using the BJS statistics, the declines in the violent and property crime rates are even steeper than those reported by the FBI. Per BJS, the overall violent crime rate fell 74% between 1993 and 2019, while the property crime rate fell 71%.
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Meanwhile, during the same time frame the expiration of the "Assault Weapons Ban" happened and made the AR15 platform sales soar. Coincidentally the patent owned by Colt expired and it was basically a free-for-all with manufacturers making their own version of the AR upper and lower receiver, driving the price down so much that it became the highest selling modern sporting rifle platform in the world.
So no, it does not appear, according to the data, that less guns means less deaths or less crime.