“In direct costs alone, it’s $2.5 billion in health care spending in the first year after non-fatal firearm injuries,” he says. “This number is much larger if you include indirect costs of lost wages or productivity.”
Plus, the lost costs of producing, distribution and selling these weapons, which could have been used for building housing, schools or education and health care. All down the drain.
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Copple: Guns cost lives, waste good money
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Letter by Frank Copple of Sun City West
“In direct costs alone, it’s $2.5 billion in health care spending in the first year after non-fatal firearm injuries,” he says. “This number is much larger if you include indirect costs of lost wages or productivity.”
Plus, the lost costs of producing, distribution and selling these weapons, which could have been used for building housing, schools or education and health care. All down the drain.
And the glorifiers of Putin harp about Democratic spending, which for the most part is aimed to help all our citizens.
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