according to the u.s. government. compared to other rich countries, america's gun violence is on another planet. in 2013, the united states had over nine times as many gun homicides per hundred thousand people as canada did, over 50 times as many as germany, and almost 90 times as many as the united kingdom, according to gunpolicy.org. so can americans learn something from other countries on this crucial issue? this hour, we're going to travel the world to look for solutions. we'll visit a country that shares america's love for guns, yet gun violence rates there are a fraction of american levels. we'll visit another nation where liberals and conservatives actually reached an agreement on gun control and afterwards shootings plummeted. but first, let's start right here in the u.s., where an