America is not the only culture obsessed with guns—many Near Eastern cultures also prize them as possessions associated with masculinity. This attitude seems related to “honor cultures.” Although Brazil has the highest number of gun deaths, the United States has the highest rate of gun violence among developed nations and more guns than people, as per the 2018 Small Arms Survey (this is part of an independent research project at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, https://smallarmssurvey.org/).
Dorothea Leicher (Wed,) studied this question.