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The results in several countries of gun control
Over the next few years, gun-death totals were cut nearly in half. Firearm suicides dropped to 0.8 per 100,000 people in 2006 from 2.2 in 1995, while firearm homicides dropped to 0.15 per 100,000 people in 2006 from 0.37 in 1995.
The result has been roughly 50 to 60 gun deaths a year. Compare that to the US, a country about six times as large that has more than 160 times as many gun-related homicides.
X, which has strict laws for obtaining firearms, seldom has more than 10 shooting deaths a year in a population of 127 million people.
Compared with the US, Y has about one-third of the number of guns per 100 civilians — and about one-tenth of the rate of gun deaths per 100,000 people.
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