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In the UK the homicide rate (homicides per 100,000 population) for 2018 is 1.2 by all means including firearms.
In the US the homicide rate (homicides per 100,000 population) for 2018 is 1.47 excluding all firearm deaths.*
Excluding homicide by firearms the US has a hire rate of death than the UK does from all means including firearms. Extrapolating here I project that if there were no guns in the US and nothing changed in the UK, our homicide rate would be over 20% higher than than theirs.
* I was careful to exclude legal intervention from the US rate. (This would be when a LEO kills someone.)
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