Guns do a lot of the killing. From Judith and Sean Palfrey in New England Journal of Medicine:

mortality young

[Cross-posted at The Incidental Economist]

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Austin Frakt is a health economist and an assistant professor at Boston University's School of Medicine and School of Public Health. He blogs at The Incidental Economist.