A group called Periscopic has taken FBI crime statistics
(the number of people killed by guns in the US in 2010)
and mapped them against WHO lifespan statistics to show
the number of years lived in orange, and the number of 
potential years not lived in gray. 

The chart is animated, starting in January with 0 gun
deaths, but then the counter speeds up, and so to the 
bands of orange and gray. And then it goes on, and goes
on, and you wonder when it's ever going to stop, and
then you notice up in the right hand corner that you're
only looking at the numbers through May. And then it 
goes on, and on, and on...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2013/feb/04/us-gun-violence-deaths-years-lost-periscopic



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