Once open, we chose “Fatal Injury Data” from the pull-down menu—and were immediately greeted with a litany of caveats, such as, “There was a coding error in the 2014 file that increases the number of unintentional firearm deaths,” it explained. And later, “Year-to-year death data for a given state can sometimes be affected by unexpectedly large numbers of death certificates with the underlying cause coded as ‘other ill-defined causes.’”
