# Rate per million # Homicide Suicide # % households with guns # Overall With gun Overall With gun # USA 75.9 44.6 124.0 72.8 48.0 Norway 12.1 3.6 142.7 38.7 32.0 Canada 26.0 8.4 139.4 44.4 29.1 Switzerland 11.7 4.6 244.5 57.4 27.2 Finland 29.6 7.4 253.5 54.3 23.2 France 12.5 5.5 223.0 49.3 22.6 NZ 20.2 4.7 137.7 24.1 22.3 Australia 19.5 6.6 115.8 43.2 19.4 Belgium 18.5 8.7 231.5 24.5 16.6 Italy 17.4 13.1 78.1 10.9 16.0 Sweden 13.3 2.0 182.4 21.2 15.1 Spain 13.7 3.8 64.5 4.5 13.1 W.Germany 12.1 2.0 203.7 13.8 8.9 N.Ireland 43.3 21.3 82.7 11.8 8.4 CSSR 13.5 2.6 117.8 9.5 5.2 Scotland 16.3 1.1 105.1 6.9 4.7 England&Wales 6.7 0.8 86.1 3.8 4.7 Netherlands 11.8 2.7 117.2 2.8 1.9 # # 1. The Swiss gun ownership figure excluding military guns is 12.2% # (i.e. military firearms account for 27.2-12.2 == 15.0%; # it has been known that "gun people" might characterise this # as "a full-auto in every second household"). # 2. From Killias (1993).