t’s impossible to quantify the cost of gun violence. There’s no way to add up pain and grief. No way to multiply that by shock and outrage. But emotional suffering and physical injuries do become real numbers when traumatic shooting events, like other public-health epidemics, contribute to the national health care burden. A 2021from the Government Accountability Office revealed about 33,000 inpatient stays and about 51,000 emergency room visits every year to treat firearm injuries.
Among injured survivors in the study, medical spending topped $25,000 per person one month after the shooting. Over 12 months, the costs totaled about $30,000 per survivor—or approximately $2.5 billion when multiplied by the 85,000 people who survive firearm wounds every year in the U.S., the study found. The costs were linked to treating survivors’ physical injuries and also subsequent mental health conditions in the first year following the shooting.
rhonda_harbison you just figured that out?
Something that the government could easily stop, if they had the desire to do so?
Time to hold politicians accountable! Their bail reform, and their softness on crime, have sent us spiralling down ward with no hope in sight, while they sit in office!
Its part of the culture
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But it’s a pittance …. compared to where the real money goes into the corrupt families, corrupt communities and the whole U.S.
Health Care for illegal immigrants is triple that. Go ahead research it.
For those that have any doubt about the danger of the A/R 15 you tube sixty-minute feature that was rerun tonight. Then make your own decisions
'A staggering 98% of these crimes have been committed by men, according to The Violence Project, a nonpartisan research group that tracks U.S. mass shooting data dating back to 1966.' Time for a MEN'S CRIME TAX!!!!
Class action lawsuit against the NRA would help foot the bill.
The history of the American police system is a failure system since 200 years ago till present?
Gun violence doesn’t even rank in the top 12 causes of death in the US. If you care (which you don’t), we should focus on the number of cases. DoBetter
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