This got me searching, and it appears the US is the only country where there are more civilian-owned firearms than there are civilians.[1] It seems reasonable

This got me searching, and it appears the US is the only country where there are more civilian-owned firearms than there are civilians.[1] It seems reasonable then that this might weigh in as an occupation stressor for police officers. Especially considering unregistered firearms outnumber registered firearms by 392:1. In 2013 ... there were 33,636 deaths due to "injury by firearms" (10.6 deaths per 100,000 persons). These deaths consisted of 11,208 homicides, 21,175 suicides.[1] Approximately 1.4 million people have died from firearms in the U.S. between 1968 and 2011.[2] That’s approximately ten times the number of soldiers who died in the American War of Independence.[3] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta... 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War