[22] Vital Statistics of Canada, (Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Annual); and Homicide Tables, (Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Annual). By way of comparison, in 1992, homicide in the US accounted for one death out of every 10,000 Americans; homicide by firearm one out of every 16,000 (Crime in the United States 1992, United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Oct. 1993).