America is one of 6 countries that make up more than half of gun deaths worldwide

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Very interesting read....

Out of the world’s 251,000 gun deaths every year, there’s a group of six countries that make up more than half of those deaths — and the United States is in it, according to a new studypublished in JAMA.
The five other countries are Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, and Guatemala, which have differing problems, but generally have much weaker economies and institutions — particularly criminal justice systems — than America. No other developed nation comes close to the death toll these other countries face to gun violence, which, for the purposes of this study, excludes deaths from war, terrorism, executions, and police.
The top six’s gun death tolls for 2016: Brazil was 43,200, the US 37,200, Mexico 15,400, Colombia 13,300, Venezuela 12,800, and Guatemala 5,090. Collectively, these countries made up less than 10 percent of the global population but 50.5 percent of the world’s gun deaths, the study found.
One reason America ranks so high is its large population: A country with more people is, all other things held equal, generally going to have more gun deaths.

There is much nuanced discussion at the article, but it's a bad reflection of the US.... https://www.vox.com/2018/8/29/17792776/us-gun-deaths-global