My impression is that most or all of the countries with the highest homicide rates (Brazil, Honduras, El Salvador, Jamaica, South Africa, and so on) have very s

My impression is that most or all of the countries with the highest homicide rates (Brazil, Honduras, El Salvador, Jamaica, South Africa, and so on) have very strict gun laws, making civilian gun ownership very difficult or impossible. I've always thought this was an obvious counterpoint to 'if the US had Britain's gun laws it would have Britain's homicide rate' style argument that's very popular. Globally, I just don't see a huge correlation between how liberal the gun laws are, and the actual gun homicide rate. Happy to be proven wrong, but this was my impression from a) listing countries by homicide rate globally, and then b) researching each of their gun laws. But it's also possible that these laws are weak/unenforced in a lot of these countries, so always open to getting contrary info