A healthy ounce of prevention
Efforts to curtail gun violence must come from all different levels
Health statistics show that homicide is the second leading cause of death for young people ages 15 to 24.
For this age group, homicides account for more deaths than cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, birth defects, influenza and pneumonia combined. This is alarming enough; however homicide is also the third leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 4 and the fourth leading cause of death for 5 to 14-year-olds.
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