Oregon web dev company Periscopic was so moved by December’s school shooting in Newtown, CT, they decided to use their skills to map gun deaths. A self-described “socially-conscious” data visualization firm, they used FBI-provided 2010 gun death data to create a real-time interactive graph that details the “lost years” victims might have lived.
Their calculated total for the 9,595 people in 2010?
413,908 stolen years.
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