Teaching self control & responsibility would probably bring that 12 per 100k…
I recall just after Sandy Hook some gun-grabber editorialist for the NYT or Washington Post wrote about the number of Americans killed by guns. But he SNAFUed and mentioned that 2/3 of gun deaths were suicide; I’m not good with math but that seems to ratio out to 4 per 100,000. I recall an FBI statistic from the 1990s that overwhelmingly, gun murders are linked to intoxicants and/or emotion, i.e., Bubba and Shelton smokin’ an a drinkin’ an a playing cards and Shelton accuses Bubba of cheatin’ and one of them shoots the other in a fit of passion (and then there’s Bubba coming home early and catching Shelton in bed with Mrs. Bubba).
I haven’t looked up the stats in several years but the last I recall is drunk drivers kill an average of 3 people and hour, 24/7. And CDC a few years ago featured the statistic that fatal accidents attributed to texting and driving has tripled and reaching the level of drunk driving deaths.
As a Canadian comedian said many years ago, “Canada’s gun murders are far below the US, but we have 100,000 at-home hunting accidents per year.”
All the same, too many senseless meaningless deaths. 99% due to no self control & responsibility.