US death rate from guns is 203.5 times higher than in Japan.
Why do you suppose that is?

It should also be pointed out that there are a few countries where this rate is higher than the US. Some substantially so. Listed from the highest down to the US they are:

Honduras

Venezuela

El Salvador

Guatemala

Brazil

Colombia

Then the United States. How about that? We're in seventh place for the most murderous society in the world. Canada, our gentle neighbor to the north has a rate (still too high) a bit shy of 17% of ours. They are in nineteenth place. Their numbers are still grotesquely high, but certainly better off than we are. The country at the bottom of the list is Singapore where our rate betters theirs by 407 times.

We are the home of the NRA, which is in the process of moving from New York to the most logical spot somewhere in the Republic of Texas.

States in the US where the death rate exceeds 20/100,000 are:

Alabama
Alaska
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
New Mexico
South Carolina escaped with 19.9
Wyoming

Alaska is number one with 24.4 with Mississippi close at 24.2. My state of New Mexico comes in at a paltry 22.3. I guess we need to try harder.

The lowest rate is held by Massachusetts at 3.9.