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Chapter 2 showed that, depending on the estimate, the size of the civilian gun stock in the USA ranges between 200 million to well over 300 million firearms. Regardless of the precise count, the USA has the largest number of private arms in absolute terms and as a percentage of its population—perhaps as many as one gun for every American. Are we safer as a result of the presence of such a large number of guns relative to other countries?
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Gabor, T. (2016). Gun Deaths: The USA versus the World. In: Confronting Gun Violence in America. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33723-4_3
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