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, it's the No. 1 cause. (For children ages 10 to 14,
suffocation is No. 1; for children under 4, the top cause is
listed as "unspecified.") Guns are also the second-highest cause
of violent death among people ages 10 to 44. How can they be
both first and second? Because, as mention