"Lies, damn lies and statistics"
This tabloid trash (that the BBC should be above) deliberately takes two single points of comparison for a particular crime classification to present a negative image. The reality is that it is the rate in 15-16 being competitively low that actually creates this large percentage. Over the longer term, the rate for this crime hasn't massively shifted either way.
The UK has never had a significant gun culture, so we've always had low gun ownership and most of those are professional rather than personal. The big shift in our gun laws after the Dumblane massacre didn't actually have much practical impact in any way and there has never been any direct correlation demonstrated between crime statistics and that law change (or any of the others people continently ignore).
Now please stop misrepresenting our country to promote your personal domestic political opinion.