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Plain English with Derek Thompson cover image

Americans Die Younger Than People in Any Other Rich Country. Why?

Plain English with Derek Thompson

CHAPTER

The Role of Gun Violence in Longevity

In the most recent year we had more than 20,000 gun homicides in the US. That's 45,000 people who've lost their lives generally decades before they otherwise would have done. John Sutter: People fail to appreciate what this means for things like your chance of making it to age 40 and beyond. "You're looking essentially at a social disease of gun violence," he says.

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