[_b8r0]

To be fair that's for England and Wales, not the UK.

In Northern Ireland (where as far as I'm aware the gun law is the same) it's 6.82.

It's interesting that England and Wales features in 7th lowest spot for death rate whereas Northern Ireland is 7th highest.

[eftpotrm]

OK, but a) Northern Ireland has been in a state of at best hevy terrorist activity and at worst borderline civil war in some areas for a good part of the last 40 years, and b) Relative populations: England: 51.5m Wales: 3m Northern Ireland: 1.5m

So in NI we're talking about just over 1,000 deaths against E/W combined, about 200. Hence the separate treatment.

[ZoFreX]

> In Northern Ireland (where as far as I'm aware the gun law is the same)

It isn't, a lot more people in NI own firearms.