Pretty much every country that imposed stringent gun control following violence saw plummets in their homicides. Firearm homicides are 40-TIMES less in the UK. In Australia following gun control, [same thing happened](https://www.factcheck.org/2017/10/gun-control-australia-updated/).

Hard for a criminal to justify spending $15,000 cash on a glock to rob a middle-class home for a... $200 television. That's not exactly a smart cost-benefit analysis.

But for the price of a firearm now and the element of surprise? You bet your ass it's worth the risk to some. Funnily enough, it's basic capitalist economics.