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Originally Posted by lostalex
What percentage is it in the US? What percentage is it in Canada? What percentage is it in Australia? You arn't comparing those numbers to countries that do arm officers, so we have no context.
You arn't giving us anything to compare it to.
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With less than 5% of the world's population, the United States is home to roughly 35–50 per cent of the world's civilian-owned guns.
The US has the highest gun ownership rate in the world - an average of 88 per 100 people. That puts it first in the world for gun ownership - and even the number two country, Yemen, has significantly fewer - 54.8 per 100 people.
But the US does not have the worst firearm murder rate - that prize belongs to Honduras, El Salvador and Jamaica. In fact, the US is number 28, with a rate of 2.97 per 100,000 people.
England and Wales has a firearm murder rate of 0.07 per 100,000 people.