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  1. Jun 10, 2022 · Gun ownership and gun homicide rates are high in the United States in comparison to rates in other advanced democracies. Mass shootings in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom...

    • Canada. As in the United States, Canada’s national government sets gun restrictions that the provinces, territories, and municipalities can supplement. And like its southern neighbor, Canada’s gun laws have often been driven by gun violence.
    • Australia. The inflection point for modern gun control in Australia was the Port Arthur massacre of 1996, when a young man killed thirty-five people and wounded nearly two dozen others.
    • Israel. Military service is compulsory in Israel, and guns are a part of everyday life. Much of the population has indirect access to an assault weapon by either being a soldier or a reservist or a relative of one.
    • United Kingdom. Modern gun control efforts in the United Kingdom have been precipitated by extraordinary acts of violence that sparked public outrage and, eventually, political action.
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  3. Nov 26, 2021 · A 2019 study published in the British Medical Journal found that US states with more permissive gun laws and greater gun ownership had higher rates of mass shootings. US President Joe Biden’s...

  4. Jan 30, 2023 · News. Home. U.S. Remains an Outlier in Firearm Possession, Gun-Related Deaths. In 2017, U.S. civilians held an average of 120.5 firearms per 100 people, the highest rate in the world by...

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  5. Mar 3, 2018 · Estimates suggest that there are more than 12 firearms for every ten civilians in the country, making U.S. gun ownership per capita more than double that of the country with the second-highest per capita rate—Yemen (according to a 2018 Small Arms Survey analysis of more than 200 countries).

  6. Jan 12, 2016 · Global. Gun Control Around the World: A Primer. Lessons from Canada to Japan. By Jonathan Masters. Rifles at a gun store in Tokyo ( Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters) January 12, 2016. The debate over gun...

  7. Mar 24, 2021 · The U.S. has the 32nd-highest rate of deaths from gun violence in the world: 3.96 deaths per 100,000 people in 2019. That was more than eight times as high as the rate in Canada, which had 0.47...

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