"The rate of firearms homicide in the United States is 19 times higher than that of 35 other high income countries combined. In the most recent year for which data are available, handguns killed 334 people in Australia, 197 in Great Britain, 183 in Sweden, 83 in Japan, 54 in Ireland, 1,034 in Canada, and 30,419 in the United Stated." The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research