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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?
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>What's also germane is which statistic to use - :)
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> I was referring to homicide rape per capita (and while the U.S. is higher than Canada, it's not by 5x)

You are right is not 5x, is 7x (3.55 vs 0.51)

United States
10.64 (2013) 3.55 (2013) 6.70 (2013) 0.16 (2013) 0.09 (2013) Guns in United States[68]

Canada
2.22 (2007-2011) 0.51 (2007-2011) 1.60 (2007-2011 avg) 0.04 (2007-2011) 0.02 (2007-2011) Statistics Canada [10]

Unless you are now seriously talking about "homicide rape per capita", then I do not know those values, or what does it even mean :p