Americans Are Dying and Dying … and Dying

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More worrisome than natural causes of death like heart disease, cancer and Covid-19, socially causes of deaths and the most alarming is gun violence.  The Gun Violence Archive (GVA) reportsthat in 2022, 44,305 people were killed and another 38,567 were injured by guns. Perhaps most alarming, more Americans died of suicide (24,090) than homicides, murders and unintentional killings.  Worse yet, nearly one thousand children under 11 years were killed (314) and injured (682) by guns – and nearly 5,000 teems (age 12-17) were victims of guns violence with 1,381 killed and 3,803 injured.   More

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