Matters of Scale - Small Arms, Big Impact

Number of McDonald's restaurants in the United States

Number of federally licensed firearms dealers in the United States

Percentage of war deaths inflicted by major weapons systems (fighter planes, bombers, Smart-bombs, missiles, artillery, etc.) in the last 50 or more wars, worldwide

Percentage of deaths in those wars inflicted by small arms

Number of medical doctors in the world (roughly estimated)

Number of military-style firearms in the world

Number of jet fighters that can be purchased for $50 million

Number of assault rifles that can be purchased for $50 million

Number of people in the United States

Number of guns in the United States, as estimated by the FBI

Number of countries in which wars were fought, and in which the combatants were all adults, between 1989 and 1996

Number of countries in which wars were fought and in which significant numbers of combatants were children under 15, during the same period

Number of public police officers in the United States in the early 1990s

Number of armed private security officers in the United States during the same period