The statistics in the article I linked to are from the United Kingdom's Home Office. And you haven't addressed the issue. Where do we go from here? Yes our country has more gun deaths than the UK...it always has. But when the UK banned handguns in 1997, their violent crime rate increased, including murders. This isn't proof that the gun ban CAUSED the increase in violent crime, but if the UK had fewer firearm deaths before the gun ban than the years after the ban, then obviously the UK's relatively low murder rate isn't because of the gun ban. Look at the UK's murder rate year by year and see if the handgun ban in 1997 helped at all.
SSAA - Evaluating Britain’s handgun ban