pay tee utt Wrote:
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> It is disgusting how much money the guntards of
> this country are costing the rest of us. These
> ignorant and irresponsible gun owners are doing
> their best to destroy whats left of America.
>
> Guntards cost us 174 billion dollars per year!
>
> The U.S. Health and Human Services Department
> supplied total and average costs of
> shooting-related hospital stays, Miller said. The
> group estimates the cost of lost work -- even
> uncompensated household chores -- and future
> earnings with data from the Labor Department and
> Census Bureau, Miller said.
>
> Dividing the $174 billion total by the number of
> guns in the U.S. -- 270 million as reported by the
> United Nations’ International Small Arms Survey
> -- the institute calculated the cost to society of
> each civilian-owned firearm in the U.S. at more
> than $644.
>
> “The data shows this has been a very large
> problem for a very long time and the costs it
> imposes are far greater than what we collect in
> sales and excise taxes on guns every year,”
> Miller said. “Gun ownership is like smoking, an
> expensive and dangerous habit.” Its costs dwarf
> the $28.2 billion budget of the Justice
> Department, he said.
>
>
>
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-21/shootings
> -costing-u-s-174-billion-show-burden-of-gun-violen
> ce.html
It looks like they did not factor in the costs of keeping all the gun people in prison. Cost could really be twice that figure. Guns may well cost us more than illegal immigration.