> For instance, look at the gun ownership/gun crime rates.

Could you expand on this?

Norway ranks at 6th place in number of guns per 100 inhabitants and 39th in number of firearm-related deaths per 100,000 population per year. The US ranks 1st and 11th respectively, having 3.6 times the number of guns per 100 people and 6 times the number of firearm-related deaths per 100,000 people compared to Norway. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...