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>What's germane here is so-called "Western" nations i.e. first-world, highly developed. But you already knew that, it's not like you're trying to morph "in the west" into "western hemisphere" just to try to syntactically win an argument :-/
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>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
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>It's a long-standing conundrum e.g. why is the US rate nearly 5x as high as Canada's?

What's also germane is which statistic to use - :)

I was referring to homicide rape per capita (and while the U.S. is higher than Canada, it's not by 5x)