The U.S. has 4.43% of the world’s population and almost 42% of the world’s population of civilian-owned guns. Since not everyone is a gun owner, that means that the typical gun owner owns more than one. In fact, they own, on average, 6.6 guns each. Two-thirds of the guns in the U.S. are in the hands of 20% of the population. Gun ownership is correlated with both gun homicide and suicide. Accordingly, the US also haa the highest rate of gun violence of any developed country.
