An Avalon spouter asks how France's strict gun-control laws are working. Thanks to those laws, France has a history of fewer gun deaths per capita than the U.S. A short list of other countries with stronger gun-control laws than the U.S. and lower per-capita rates of gun violence: Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland. The U.S. has the weakest gun-control laws of any western-industrialized nation, evidenced by our epidemic of gun violence.