Total firearm-related death rate per 100'000 for the US: between 10.2 and 15.22.
For the UK: 0.38 to 0.46
Source (and more sources): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-re...
For the UK: 0.38 to 0.46
Source (and more sources): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-re...
And, the UK's low firearms death rates predate the firearms laws, which largely occurred post-WWI to stop a communist takeover.
Note the US' firearms death rate isn't uniform. For example, most of the peninsula's is better than the UK's best, but East Palo Alto, which has exactly the same laws (and lower firearms ownership than Palo Alto), is horrendously worse.
Parts of the US are third-world, with all that that entails. Gun control won't change that.
If you know of a specific reference I'll be very pleased to read it.
You do have to convert the raw numbers into per-capita rates.
In Northern Ireland (where as far as I'm aware the gun law is the same) it's 6.82.
It's interesting that England and Wales features in 7th lowest spot for death rate whereas Northern Ireland is 7th highest.
So in NI we're talking about just over 1,000 deaths against E/W combined, about 200. Hence the separate treatment.
It isn't, a lot more people in NI own firearms.
I've bemoaned the difficulty in finding reliable, research-quality statistical data like this for a long time. I've even tried to raise capital to for a start-up to do this. No luck.