Why is gun ownership almost always brought up in such discussions? I'm from a country with high gun ownership and low crime - yet I really don't think the crime

Why is gun ownership almost always brought up in such discussions? I'm from a country with high gun ownership and low crime - yet I really don't think the crime rate has anything to do with the guns people have at home (mostly military rifles), since the crime rate is mostly the same as in other European countries with low gun ownership. So, just to be clear, I'm pro liberal gun laws (for different reasons), I just think crime and police brutality are not going to be solved with gun laws in either direction, it's a separate issue.