How can we have a firearms murder rate of 10, when the total murder rate is 4.8? Bogusity is suspected.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
"Homicide" isn't necessarily murder. It also includes justifiable homicide, or self-defense.
But in this case, that isn't what is inflating it: it's the inclusion of "suicide" in the count, although they don't explicitly say so.
Suicide rates are driven by culture. If you restrict one means of suicide, other means increase to compensate. That's exactly what happened in Canada.