The U.S. has long drawn international attention for both its high gun-related death toll and the quantity of firearms that American civilians possess.

And yet while there are plenty of countries where low gun crime corresponds with low gun ownership, that isn't always the case.

For the third part in our series Armed in America, CGTN's Owen Fairclough compares the U.S. with the rest of the world

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