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by HalfwayToDice 3176 days ago
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.

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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.