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  • Guns Have Overtaken Cars as Leading Cause of Traumatic Deaths in the U.S.

    Guns Have Overtaken Cars as Leading Cause of Traumatic Deaths in the U.S.

    Gun-related fatalities have surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of deaths from physical trauma, according to new research. In recent years, more lives — and years of life — were lost to firearms than to motor vehicles. The majority of these deaths involved suicide, particularly among older white men, but Black Americans were more likely…