According to bjs.gov (Bureau of Justice Statistics), it&#x27;s been around 11-12,000 gun homicides in recent years, down from around 16,000 a few years ago. Over half of those are black-on-black shootings, mainly gang related.<p>If you control for these gangland shootings, the per capita rate in the U.S. is about the same as Western Europe and Canada.<p>The U.S. has a socio-economic problem in the ghetto areas, not a gun problem per se, unless you want to argue that it&#x27;s too easy for gangbangers to obtain guns.<p>Law abiding citizens with guns aren&#x27;t doing most of the shootings. Suicides, that&#x27;s a different story.