From the NYT, on this week’s Institute of Medicine report on how American’s under 50 die more often and younger than their counterparts in the rest of the industrialized world:

The rate of firearm homicides was 20 times higher in the United States than in the other countries, according to the report, which cited a 2011 study of 23 countries. And though suicide rates were lower in the United States, firearm suicide rates were six times higher.