Tangle writes:
Also you forget accident and suicide.
Country folk are their own worst enemies, apparently. At least, those 19 and under.
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The study found that from 1999 through 2006, 23,649 Americans age 19 or younger died from gunshots. Rates in the most-rural and most-urban counties were nearly the same -- at 4 deaths per 100,000 children and teens, and 4.6 per 100,000, respectively.
Child gun deaths as common in rural as urban areas | Reuters