" The United Kingdom now leads the United States by a wide margin in armed robberies and aggravated assaults. Australia also passed severe gun restrictions in 1996, banning most guns and even making it a crime to use a gun defensively. Since the gun ban appeared over 5 years ago, armed robberies rose by 57% assaults and unarmed robberies both rose over 35%. In fact, the countries with by far the highest homicide rates have gun bans. There is also evidence of this pattern in the U. S. Washington D.C.'s ban on handgun sales took effect in 1977 and by the 1990s the city's murder rate had tripled. During the years following the ban, most murders in the city were committed with handguns.
Chicago also imposed handgun registration in 1968, and murders with handguns continued to rise. They then imposed a D.C.-style handgun ban in 1982. Over the next decade the annual number of handgun-related murders doubled. .
The biggest problem with gun control laws is that the law-abiding citizens were more vulnerable to crime, and the "would be criminals" wouldn't obey the laws and regulations in the first place. What it boils down to is that the correlation between gun bans and restrictions to violent crimes is a great one. Simply stated the countries and states that have gun bans or strict regulation equals a large rise in the crime rate. .
The media plays a large role in the publics view on gun control. No one would ever hear or even believe the statistics and results from research, but what they do hear and see is the propaganda that the media shows them. In part this disregard for the media might arise because an innocent persons death is much more newsworthy than when a victim brandishes a gun and an attacker runs away with no crime committed. Unlike the crimes that are avoided, bad events provide emotionally gripping pictures. But defensive gun use in seldom involves more than very brief stories. News worthiness also dictates that these stories are not the typical examples of self-defense, but the rare instances where the attacker is shot.