The fact that we have 89 guns per 100 people is wild, so I did some calculations. I found data on number of guns per capita and number of gun homicides per capita. I couldnt find reliable data on all countries, and of the countries in the Top 10 in GDP in the world, I couldnt find reliable data on China, UK, and Russia. Source was Wikipedia.
Of the 72 countries I had reliable data for, the US was 23rd highest in homicides per capita. Based purely on homicides per capita, the only country in the Top 10 in GDP with a worse homicide rate than the US was Brazil (obviously a ton of this is drug warfare). Not exactly a shining record for the US.
I also built a spreadsheet that compared the number of homicides per 100k people to the number of guns per 100k people. The US was 58th of 72 on the list. Japan and France were the only two countries in the top 10 worldwide GDP with less gun deaths per gun.
So on a per gun basis, the US is pretty low on the list (59th overall, 5th of 7 of top 10 GDP I have data on) but because we have so many guns we are high on the overall gun homicide list (23th overall, 2nd of 7 of the top 10 GDP I have data on).
Another thing to consider is the fact that our gun homicide rate is probably lower because we have such good health care (basically, people who would die in some countries don't in US because of superior ER care).
Of the 72 countries I had reliable data for, the US was 23rd highest in homicides per capita. Based purely on homicides per capita, the only country in the Top 10 in GDP with a worse homicide rate than the US was Brazil (obviously a ton of this is drug warfare). Not exactly a shining record for the US.
I also built a spreadsheet that compared the number of homicides per 100k people to the number of guns per 100k people. The US was 58th of 72 on the list. Japan and France were the only two countries in the top 10 worldwide GDP with less gun deaths per gun.
So on a per gun basis, the US is pretty low on the list (59th overall, 5th of 7 of top 10 GDP I have data on) but because we have so many guns we are high on the overall gun homicide list (23th overall, 2nd of 7 of the top 10 GDP I have data on).
Another thing to consider is the fact that our gun homicide rate is probably lower because we have such good health care (basically, people who would die in some countries don't in US because of superior ER care).