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That's not really true if you look at per capita figures. USA is #18, with 4.46 firearm-related homicides per 100K. Compare to something like El Salvador, which was 71.60 per 100K in 2015.
USA is not fabulous in this departement obviously, but it's not like latin america. Specifically, it doesn't seem like the number of legally owned guns directly correlates with the amount of gun homicides. If you look at the top ten countries on gun ownership, all of them have the firearm-related homicides figure < 5.0 and 8 of them under 0.8.
Sure, but being better should always be the goal. Especially for the richest and most powerful nation on earth.