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The image you quoted shows the exact opposite, at least among developed countries.
I'm more than happy to reduce poverty too.
Having a gun enhances your ability to commit a crime. The same way we have laws against drug paraphernalia or lock picking tools, guns -- handguns especially -- are tools to commit acts of violence against another citizen.
I'm not sure if you're purposely trying to misrepresent the data or if you're just unaware of what correlation means. If there were a correlation you'd see most of the high gun ownership countries to the left and the lower ones to the right, but that's not at all what we see. It's also dishonest to compare it only to a few select 1st world countries instead of the whole world, because you're intentionally excluding the very same poverty that makes it a violent country in the first place.
There is no positive correlation with gun ownership rate and overall muder rate. Feel free to check any of the data in the links.
If the world were different and you were right that it wasn't poverty causing crime, but rather guns and their magazine sizes, why is it that the poor parts of the city, state, country, and world are almost always dramatically more violent than their richer companions?