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What I mean is that preventing the general public in the UK and Greece specifically from owning guns has meant that gun crime is virtually non-existent compared to other forms of crime.
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Boldface by me
I think the crux here is the concept of "gun crime". I do not subscribe to the idea that there is "gun crime", any more than there is "knife crime" or "stone crime" or "closed fist crime". We have for instance, assault and murder. I believe that a concept like "gun crime" is merely a sensationalist term
Laws already exist to make violence against innocents a serious breach in any country I can name. I do not see the value of breaking up the offense by means that the offense used.
Is a stabbed dead rape victim any superior to a rape victim who was clubbed to death? Also, how were the crimes of two different types? The means used to come to the end may be important in an investigation but I question their value concerning the end result; dead is still dead