That's a lot of guns

According to the SMH:

The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily-armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.

US citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.

About 4.5 million of the 8 million new guns manufactured worldwide each year are purchased in the United States, it said.

Now I know that a lot of people get shot in the US each year, but with that many guns lying around, I am surprised that so few people get shot compared to the number of available firearms.

I am not sure everyone else will see it this way.