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Here is the truth about gun ownership and protecting innocent life. Study it:
'Pretend “Gun-free” School Zones: A Deadly Legal Fiction'

http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=david_...

There is no correlation between gun ownership and murder rates. When it comes to the rate of gun ownership, that is higher in rural areas than in urban areas, but the murder rate is higher in urban areas. The rate of gun ownership is higher among whites than among blacks, but the murder rate is higher among blacks.

Britain has had a lower murder rate than the United States for more than two centuries – and, for most of that time, the British had no more stringent gun control laws than the United States. Indeed, neither country had stringent gun control for most of that time.

Neither guns nor gun control was the reason for the difference in murder rates. People were the difference.
The crime rate, including the rate of crimes committed with guns, is far higher in Britain now than it was back in the days when there were few restrictions on Britons buying firearms. By the 1990s – after decades of ever tightening gun ownership restrictions – there were more than a hundred times as many armed robberies compared to the 1950s.

Russia, Mexico, Brazil all have stricter Gun Laws than The US and higher Gun Homicide rates.
You could compare other sets of countries and get similar results. Gun ownership has been three times as high in Switzerland as in Germany, but the Swiss have had lower murder rates. Other countries with high rates of gun ownership and low murder rates include Israel, New Zealand, and Finland.

Guns are not the problem. People are the problem – including people who are determined to push gun control laws, either in ignorance of the facts or in defiance of the facts.

Instead of comparing countries, let's look at America.
Your figures do not add up or accurately compare to FBI crime data.
And it makes sense that where more private citizens own firearms for self defense, fewer criminals are going to take the risk of crossing paths with an armed citizen.

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/california-gun-sales-up-gun-violence-down/

http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/28/gun-crime-continues-to-decrease-despit...

http://www2.byui.edu/OnLineLearning/courses/hum/202/ConcealedCarryPreven...

By far the simplest explanation for the decline in violent crime rates is that the U.S. population is getting older and older, and older people rarely rape, rob, assault and murder others. In addition, incarceration rates have increased dramatically since the 1990s (when violent crime rates were highest).

You're more likely to shoot yourself than a criminal because in the overwhelming majority of occasions where crimes are stopped by privately owned guns, no shots are fired. The mere brandishing of the gun is enough to stop the crime as most criminals are cowards and looking for easy prey rather than a battle. Gun control advocates such as the author of this article typically know this but don't mention it deliberately. A society of disarmed vulnerable insecure people is likely to benefit the mental health industry as well I'd imagine.