Business Insider has a detailed statistical piece on how spectacularly poorly the US handles guns. Basically the US has the highest rate of gun ownership in all the industrialized world and the second highest rate of gun related deaths outside of Mexico (which is fighting a huge war with drug gangs run by former special forces). Amazingly the US has a higher gun related death rate than some countries going through actual warfare
http://www.businessinsider.com/shoot...n-laws-2012-12