What Kind Of Violence Kills Americans? [Infographic]
Violent Deaths Click here to see this image larger. Todd Lindeman/Washington PostThe leading causes of violence-related deaths, for everyone in the United States. Over at The Washington Post, Todd Lindeman has crunched some numbers and put together an infographic organizing violence-related deaths by age. One axis shows age, the other ranks the cause of death. If the deaths were homicides, the box is shaded brown; if they were suicides, the box is shaded blue. They're also shaded more heavily if there's a large number of deaths associated with that cause. So, for example, the leading cause of violence-related death for people ages 65 and above is suicide by firearm, and because there were more than 30,000 of those cases recorded between 1999 and 2007, it's shaded dark blue. Here's what we can glean: The leading means of violence-related deaths are guns. For people ages 5 to 9 and 15 and above,...