This Is What A Preventable Death Looks Like. Actually, A Few Hundred Thousand Of Them.

This visualization of years stolen comes from the combination of two types of data from 2010 and 2013: the number of gun murders and the normal life expectancy rate of each victim. More about where these figures came from is below.

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