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Facts in the cross-hairs February 18, 2018 2:57 pm RL

http://www.amjmed.com/pb/assets/raw/Health%20Advance/journals/ajm/AJM_Mar16_PR_Grinshteyn.pdf

The study reveals some stark truths about living and dying in the United States. When compared to other
high-income nations, as an American you are:
 Seven times more likely to be violently killed
 Twenty-five times more likely to be violently killed with a gun
 Six times more likely to be accidentally killed with a gun
 Eight times more likely to commit suicide using a gun
 Ten times more likely to die from a firearm death overall

The CDC is still forbidden to study firearm deaths in America…

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