Yeah, I'm not sure we can depend on Wikipedia for this.Thanks for the source, but still, doesn’t this fly in the face of reason? Rwanda is lower than the US? Ethiopia? Ghana? Tunisia? Bolivia? Mali (for gods sakes?), Tajikistan? Again, there’s some data skewing going on here. I’m guessing that there’s no attempt here to include illegal or unregistered weapons.
I mean, it makes sense in a way that people of richer countries would tend to have more stuff, weapons included, so maybe this is a list that reflects that as much as anything. And that we have more people who comply with gun registering laws?
A surprising (or possible a giveaway) note is that Britian and Germany aren’t near the bottom, they have very restrictive gun laws. Again, I think this may reflect that their gun registration laws are more effectively enforced.
One big problem is that we don’t really have much in the way of reliable data bases. But here are some US statistics gathered by the Congressional Research Service:
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/18/15977143-gun-control-offers-no-cure-all-in-america?lite