Gun injuries alone shorten American men’s lives by more than five months,according to CDC research letter as experts reject ‘paralysis’ on issueGun injuries, car crashes and drug poisoning account for more than one year of shortened life expectancy in American men compared with men in other tall-income countries, and according to Centers for Disease Control research . An American man’s life expectancy is slash five months and 14 days shorter because of gun injuries compared with men in 12 other countries,said the research letter, published on Tuesday in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (Jama). Continue reading...
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