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The economic cost of gun violence in America was $557 billion in one year

Every day, more than 110 Americans are killed by guns and more than 200 are left injured.

That's about 20,000 deaths and 36,000 injuries so far this year.

Mr Miller has another figure to add to this list. For decades, he has periodically crunched the numbers and worked out the price tag of gun violence in the US.

By his latest calculations, using 2019 data, it comes to $US557 billion (or $810 billion) in one year.
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DUB said:
The economic cost of gun violence in America was $557 billion in one year
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From your article...

The "lost quality of life," which formed the bulk of the overall amount, represented "the present value of what was irreparably damaged when a victim's life was cut short or a survivor was permanently disabled by gun violence."
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The costs calculated from the 2019 data ($US557 billion) were substantially higher than the last time Mr Miller crunched the numbers using the 2018 data. Those figures worked out to be $US280 billion ($406 billion).

Mr Miller says this was because of one significant numerical change.
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A pedestrian walks past bullet holes in the window of a Philadelphia storefront.(Getty Images: Kriston Jae Bethel)

US federal government departments and agencies recently settled on a "value of a life" amount that was substantially higher than what was previously used. So Mr Miller adopted the same metric.

"We've gone from using a value of a human life of about $US6-6.5 million ($8.5-9 million) to one that's about $US10.5 million ($15 million)," he says.

As a result, the economic cost of gun violence is much higher than previously thought.
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So the cost of all violence has gone up. Not just gun violence. And on a per incident bases, all violent deaths would be about the same cost to the economy.

Now we can just see the difference in intentional homicide rates before and after gun control to find out how much gun control saves.

Unfortunately we can't find any studies which show a statistically significant causal impact on intentional homicide rates or violent crime rates in relation to any gun control in this country, or any other.

But if you find one, do share.
 
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What a country!
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calvin natt said:
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And what makes that gun more deadly than the other semiautomatic weapons that have been sold for the last hundred years or so?

It's interesting that nobody advocating for these kinds of changes can quite quantify that...

And maybe those 30 cops were just poorly trained and not good choices to be police officers? Maybe this is a part of the larger problem with law enforcement that we've been dealing with as a nation for while...
 
Phatguysrule said:
And what makes that gun more deadly than the other semiautomatic weapons that have been sold for the last hundred years or so?

It's interesting that nobody advocating for these kinds of changes can quite quantify that...

And maybe those 30 cops were just poorly trained and not good choices to be police officers? Maybe this is a part of the larger problem with law enforcement that we've been dealing with as a nation for while...
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Serious question, if your goal was to shoot and kill as many people as possible what gun would you select? You keep saying it's not the gun but all these fuckwads keep selecting AR15-type weapons. And seeing the results they're achieving their selection seems to be correct.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Serious question, if your goal was to shoot and kill as many people as possible what gun would you select? You keep saying it's not the gun but all these fuckwads keep selecting AR15-type weapons. And seeing the results they're achieving their selection seems to be correct.
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Whatever gun I have. And if I didn't have a gun I'd use a car. And If I didn't have a car I'd use a chemical/fire.

The most popular gun in America is the AR15, because that's what looks closest to what people see on TV and in video games. So that's what people use when they choose to kill. The gun they have or the gun they know.

If it weren't the AR15, another gun would start looking like that and that's what people would use.
 
THE HCP said:
God save our country from these nutjobs.

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WTF?

That dude is really down with arming children? And he wonders why that bill was struck down?
 
Shaboid said:
It has to be satirical, right?
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Cohen's character and fake Kinder Guardians is satirical. Politicians trying to put guns in the hands of children is real.

It seems the satirical is becoming reality. Orwell's 1984 is upon us. Before we know it the Animals will begin speaking too.
 
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