Gun violence costs America $100 Billion a year

[ErikJ]

I was just watching Bashir show on MSNBC and a police chief guest said that in the last 2 weeks 13 incidents have killed 6 cops and wounded 10 more.

He then said the 'Police Executive Research Forum' found that gun violence in 6 American cities cost $38 million and that gun violence costs the US approximately $100 billion a year! Maybe the Teabaggers should know this.

[the antigun]

1. Crazy

It is costing more in lives than money.

[Indydem]

2. That study uses a made up number.

That each homicide costs $5 million.

That's ludicrous.

[ErikJ]

4. Another study found $174 Billion lost in 2010

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The impact of gun deaths and injuries go well beyond heartbreak to include billions of dollars of losses to the economy. The cost of U.S. gun violence in work lost, medical care, insurance, criminal-justice expenses and pain and suffering amounted to as much as $174 billion in 2010, according to data compiled by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Calverton, Maryland.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-21/shootings-costing-u-s-174-billion-show-burden-of-gun-violence.html

[byeya]

5. If you figure in loss of lifetime earnings for the decedent, cost of investigations, costs to loss

of a parent and spouse, then I can see $5Million as a possibility.

[Pholus]

6. Absolutely! Factor of 3 low.

http://archive.news.iastate.edu/news/2010/sep/costofcrime

[byeya]

10. Factor of 3 low - thanks for the information

[ErikJ]

9. Hell, just a single execution costs the state $5 million!

Think of all the court costs to society in gun crime and it must be $50 billion alone!

[byeya]

3. And a group of doctors who wanted to study gun violence as a public health issue weren't

told not to do it and that Congress, I think, said gun violence was not a public health issue.

[Pholus]

7. Yes. Some "freedoms" (scientific inquiry) not as important as others.

Like the right to have an ego accessory.

[msongs]

8. gun OWNER violence. please use the correct term :-) nt

[Hoyt]

11. Price we pay so Tbaggers can arm their homes & carry in public to protect themselves from

the big bad bogeymen. Screw them, and gun manufacturers who make a killing off such fear and bigotry.

It's a price we should stop paying.