The killing of 12 people (13 including a related miscarriage by one of the injured victims whose six-year old daughter was killed) in a Colorado movie theater in July 2012, one of the worst mass shootings in American history, attests once again that gun control is not only a legal issue, it is also a public health one which prematurely takes the life of thousands of people (around 32,300 annual deaths in the U.S. from firearm injuries in the 24 year period from 1980 to 2006, accounting for 6.6% of years of potential life lost prior to age 65 (Firearm and Injury Center at Penn, 2009)).
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