If you outlaw chickens, chicken consumption will drop significantly but people are still going to eat. That gun violence goes down, or that gun crimes go down, is meaningless. What needs to happen is to stop crime, regardless of the weapon of choice. And this is where you would, were I not to already say it, say that we'll never get rid of crime, and you'd be right. But by addressing crime rather than the tool you reduce all crime instead of just those committed with one tool.
As we can learn from the UK, though you and they all put on blinders because you and they don't want to learn it, if you ban the tool, criminals simply choose another tool and leftists who want the population subjugated ban the next tool.
I watched several episodes on BBC last week of a show that's similar to Cops but it's the British version. The police pulled someone over and searched for weapons and one of the weapons found was a ratchet with a socket on the end.... Yes, a ratchet is an illegal weapon carried in your car in the UK unless you're a mechanic on the way to a job. Then, today, I find this little nugget mocking the laws in the UK because they actually do consider a ratchet a weapon:
In fact, in the UK there are no legal weapons of self-defense, even in your home. According to the police in the UK, the only legal defensive tool is a rape whistle.
In Great Britain the world is upside down: Attackers go free while victims go to jail. By comparison, America looks pretty good. by Bob Adelmann
thenewamerican.com
In spite of over-the-top bans on self-defense, or as the result of over-the-top bans on self defense the murder rate has been higher in London than in NYC proving that weapons bans don't apply to murderers and that murderers will simply choose another tool if their first choice tool isn't handy:
An ex-senior Met Police officer says he is "absolutely devastated" by the figures for 2018.
www.bbc.com