[ejolto]

> For instance, look at the gun ownership/gun crime rates.

Could you expand on this?

Norway ranks at 6th place in number of guns per 100 inhabitants and 39th in number of firearm-related deaths per 100,000 population per year. The US ranks 1st and 11th respectively, having 3.6 times the number of guns per 100 people and 6 times the number of firearm-related deaths per 100,000 people compared to Norway. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...

[HalfwayToDice]

According to those statistics, Japan has a higher gun crime rate than the USA, looking at "Firearm-related deaths per gun per year".

My opinion is that those statistics are not very useful.

[zimpenfish]

I don't know how Wikipedia shows that - following the links at the bottom gives 33599 US deaths in 2014 with 270-310M guns for ratios of 0.0001244 - 0.0001084 deaths per gun.

For Japan in 2014, 6 deaths in 2014 with 710K guns for a ratio of 0.0000085 deaths per gun.

Double-checking, the US has 5600 x more deaths with 380-435 x more guns for a ratio of 12-14 more deaths per gun.