GUNS COST AMERICANS $2.8 BILLION PER YEAR IN HOSPITAL CARE TO TREAT WOUNDS

News week ^ | 10/28/2017 | Newsweek

[rey]

Perhaps, but this also includes people deservedly shot.

Remember, nearly every incident of gun violence is brought to an end by the use of another gun.

[mikelets456]

This is the new lie progressives are using-—However, it’s full of misleading information. #1, Suicides, gang violence and legal defense make up 90% of the so called 2.8 Billion-—but these items would happen regardless guns or not...it’s a lame argument.

[ClearCase_guy]

How much does alcohol cost us?

Are they proposing to bring back Prohibition? No? Well then shut up.

[marktwain]

This is a straw man argument.

The only way to lower these costs through gun control is to reduce the number of guns in circulation by 99% or more.

The cost of such a confiscation scheme would exceed the hospital costs by several orders of magnitude.

On the other hand, the hospital costs could be reduced enormously through strict enforcement of prohibited possessor law and by long sentences for violent offenders.

That cost is roughly close to the benefits realized.

[Red Badger]

But what is the cost OUTSIDE of Chicago?........................

[Red Badger]

I would bet smoking related health problems dwarf this by several orders of magnitude...................

[QualityMan]

this must be their new angle....

by my calculation, my guns have cost me nothing in hospital bills.....only in ammo...

what a bunch of whiny pu**ies

[armourenthusiast]

I would like to see the cost breakdown of how much money was caused by illegal aliens shooting people.

[IYAS9YAS]

So, that's only $8.58 per person, per year in the United States (based on $2.8B divided by current estimated US population of 326,272,600).

How much do illegals cost us?

[Pollster1]

We need to save money and only treat the decent people who are shot, not the predators who constitute the majority of those injured. Is that what they are implying? If you shoot a burglar, just save the state’s money - shovel and shut up?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

According to FBI crime statistics, guns are used to prevent 2.5 million crimes per year, 99% of the time without a shot being fired.

http://gunfacts.info

[G Larry]

Disarm the urban criminals!!!!!

[cicero2k]

Free speech and movement and prosperity always come at a price.

[ealgeone]

And some call for the legalization of drugs....

[familyop]

Harmful drugs cost many times more.

[familyop]

Sexually transmitted diseases cost more.

[I want the USA back]

No. Guns are a tool. People use tools. People cause things. Guns don’t cause things. They are an instrument.

[FlingWingFlyer]

How much do automobile “accidents” cost us? Hmmmmmm?

[DCBryan1]

...sigh...then do background checks on the victims....if they show up as a criminal, give them Obamacare on the spot.