If having MORE GUNS makes you safer why isn't the United States of America THE SAFEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD?

... because we have more criminals.
Though the overall rate of crime is decreasing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States

I hear that areas with less restrictive CCL permits have lower crime rate.
But I believe if you look at those areas, they are generally more rural/suburban and less metro ... and crime is naturally lower in those areas.

Also, CCL holders have to pass background checks - so they are less likely to commit crimes.
So maybe just require every legal gun holder to have a CCL?

Owning a gun makes some feel safe.  Therefore the more guns one has the safer they must be. (NRA logic?)

It's not so much the guns themselves, rather it's the idiots who possess them.  Guns are simply tools, in the same fashion as a rake, a pencil, or a screwdriver.  However, whereas other tools can have more than one use, a gun has only one use - to kill (be it animals or people).  Guns are useful when hunting for food; much better than using arrows, spears or knives.  The more shots one can get from a gun the better the odds of hitting the target (deer, bison, etc.) and not going hungry.  So of what use is a gun that can shoot 50 (or more) rounds in a few seconds?  The more bullets one puts into their meat the less of it is useful.  Seems counterproductive.

Now we all know that everyone hunts for their food.  Why, just look in your local Kroger or Vons; there're hunters everywhere.  A gun is quite handy for bringing down those large cans of food or bags of chips (vicious little devils).  And, by george, if we don't shoot some of that neatly wrapped meat, it'll just run away and we'll starve to death.  While a few folks still hunt for food in the wild, 99% of people simply go to the store.  They've already corralled a herd of carts right there by the entrance so one doesn't have to go and "hunt" one down.  No more tacking down herds for days, simply go from aisle to aisle and place all your findings in the cart (mere hours).  No more having to eat the same thing day after day, why there are more varieties of food on each aisle that there are in the entire Serengeti.  Why, they even carry that rare breed from the arctic - ice cream.
Well, if one doesn't have to hunt for their food with a gun (killing animals), what else is left?  Killing other people.  Eating other people is strictly against the law, so that leaves out using them for food.  Perhaps one kills other people for sport.  I mean the police and FBI do have photos of the ones currently "in season".  But they're laws against that too.  So of what use is a gun?   What...what's that you say?  They're used for self defence?  Ok.  So if a guy walks into a liquor store and points a gun at the clerk he's simply using it for defending himself?  Now I've heard that liquor is "bad", but I don't recall it ever assaulting anyone.  And the clerk is only there to process the transaction - money for liquor.  He can't be much of a threat.  We all know what a gun's sole purpose is - to kill; therefore we fear it.  So what you're really saying that a gun is used to counteract that fear (feel safe).  Simple math - two fears cancel eachother out.  What if one person has a bigger gun?  Should everyone else get a gun of equal size to "maintain balance"?

A simple gun to hunt for food is one thing, but we have guns today that can mow down an entire herd of buffalo (within minutes).  Yet since we no longer have to hunt for our food, we use the guns to "hunt" other people instead (they conveniently gather at schools churches, places of business, airports, train stations).  Need a gun?  Why, they're 10x more places that sell guns in this country than there are Starbucks. 
Someone piss you off?  Get a gun and get rid of them.  Did your boss fire you, or do other coworkers taunt you?  Get a gun and eliminate the problem.  Did your spouse or lover break up with you?  Grab a gun ands teach them a lesson.  (Revenge thy name is gun).  Are you simply having a bad day?  Grab a gun and go shoot  strangers on the street.  THIS is where we are today, folks.  How safe does if make YOU feel?

I'll give you two or three examples of crime and where a majority of it happens. First, let me say this when was the last time America was invaded by a hostile foreign power? That said, safety is highly individualized and localized. Thus, the degree to which guns prevent crimes is, in part, determined by the threat level (no guns + big threat = no safety). According to the Crime Prevention Research Center murders in America are very concentrated. According to their statistics, 54% of the American counties in 2014 had zero murders. Whereas 2% of the counties have 51% of the murders.

  What this means, in practical terms, is that the threat level is very high in a very few places and nonexistent elsewhere. As others have noted, the threat level tends to be very high in places that have made either private gun ownership or public carrying of firearms difficult or illegal. Such as in California, New York, Illinois, and several others. In this 2 % of counties with over 50% of the homicides, the central theme is street gangs, a statistical attribute that has been known for quite some time.

  The response then is America might just be the safest place on the earth, providing you discount big cities where the mayors and politicians in general, don’t give a darn about the innocent unprotected people being murdered daily.