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There are far more guns in private hands in the USA than in any
other country, according to the latest Small Arms Survey
conducted in 2007 by the Graduate Institute of International and
Development Studies in Geneva. On average, the survey reported
88.8 guns per 100 people in the USA, compared with 54.8 per 100
residents in Yemen and 45.7 per 100 in Switzerland.  Israel,
where many men and women openly carry firearms while carrying
out day-to-day activities, was ranked 79 out of 178 countries on
the list, but non-political mass killings there are unheard of.
To be sure, shooting rampages have occurred in the past 20 years
in Germany, Norway, Finland, Canada, Australia and the United
Kingdom, but not as many as in the USA.  Before Adam Lanza
walked into an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., and shot to
death 20 children, si