OVG, in 2015 there were 15,696 murders in the US of which nearly 75% were from guns.  This doesn't include deaths from suicide of which guns account for the majority.  Someone attempting suicide with a gun is more likely to die than from a knife or poison.  

The US is by far the leader in gun related deaths in the world, not in the middle.  The number of guns in the US owned by private citizens is not double that of any other country.  It is almost half of all the guns in the world owned by private citizens. In the world...