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Finland is the industrialized country nearest the US in household gun ownership (38% vs 43%). Finland's death by gun rate is 4.5 per 100,000 and the US rate is 10 per, more than twice as much. 17% of US households own handguns and Finland has a pistol ownership rate of 6%. Hmmmm, twice as many pistols in the US and twice as many deaths.

The nearest country to the US educationally, ethnically, culturally and economically is Canada with a gun ownership rate of 15% overall and 3% for pistols. The gun death rate there is 2.5 per 100,000. Canada also outlaws semi auto guns of all types.

So, even though gun deaths are down in the US, Americans are twice as likely to die by gun as Finland (nearest in gun ownership rate) and 6 times more likely than in Canada. Could it be that, as Hoyt said upthread, that crime rates in the US could be much lower if there were fewer guns?

If gun ownership has nothing to do with death by gun, how do you account for these numbers? I'd be careful trying to cite "other factors" after the upthread exchange . . .

http://guncontrol.ca/overview-gun-control-us-canada-global/