People get too worked up about guns on both sides.

Guns by themselves don't cause crime.

Income inequality (not absolute poverty), cultural values, age and gender demographics, family structure, and parenting styles are the primary drivers of crime.

A society with a lot of family breakdown will have a lot of crime.

A nation with a medium median income and a high Gini coefficient will have more crime than a nation with a low median income and a low Gini coefficient. This is why Latin American nations tend to have higher murder rates than Central African ones.

You can arm every single 60+ year old woman on earth and they will still have a lower rate of crime than if you took away guns from every 20-39 year old man.

East Asian nations tend to have lower rates of crime than Western, Sub-Saharan African, and Latin American nations of the same median income and education level.