The folks over in the U.K. seem not to have been especially impressed with the way that whole "strict gun control laws" thingie's been working out, and a recent poll there indicates that 80% would like to see a repeal of handgun bans and a return to a more US-style approach. The poll's not scientific; it's an online deal from one of their newspapers, but still - the newspaper (The Telegraph) is the U.K.'s largest. And the percentage is hardly insignificant, given that over 11,000 people responded to register their views.
But statistics from the United States show that guns are used by citizens to defend themselves around eighty times more often than they are used to take a life. A recent study published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy concluded that there is a negative correlation between gun ownership and violent crime in countries internationally, that is, “where firearms are most dense violent crime rates are lowest, and where guns are least dense violent crime rates are highest."
Chicago certainly supports the study's conclusion. But hey, they have way fewer stabbings and beheadings than the U.K., so there's that. Still a lot of folks, from DiFi to Pierced Organ keep pushing for U.K.-style gun laws here. When all they've got to peddle is fear, there's no need to let a few facts get in the way.