GVPanorama: Hidden Costs
The financial toll of gun violence
While working in the gun violence prevention movement, a hard realization is that stating the blatant harmful effects and hard facts of gun deaths aren’t always enough to sway pro-gun people. As we look for every angle to expose the many adverse outcomes of America’s firearm fetish, laying out the economic costs is an often persuasive strategy.
Today’s GVPanorama piece comes from a recent, expansive series in Amsterdam News that “examines the wide-ranging costs of gun violence in America, and reveals how the country’s safety net programs are failing those whose lives are disrupted by this violence. It also highlights an array of grassroots groups, disability organizations, and hospital programs that are stepping up to fill the gap.”
Check out the full series here.
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