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It takes a plentiful amount of money to keep the United States’ government running smoothly. Every citizen contributes through taxes paid to the government to keep the country running. However, taxpayers hard-earned money was used to fix someone else’s irrational actions. Injuries by firearms such as mass shootings, hunting, or domestic abuse cost each person in the United States around $546, and the United States government $5.5 billion in lost tax revenue, as well as $4.7 billion in court cost and $1.4 billion in Medicare and Medicaid cost. In 2015 alone, there were 36,341 emergency room visits and 25,024 hospitalizations for gun injuries, costing an estimated $6.3 million. Around 84% of the firearms’ victims were uninsured, thus the bills were left to the taxpayers’ responsibility through programs like Medicaid (Howell, et al. 2015). Therefore, society is responsible to clean up the aftermath of firearms incidents, rather than using the taxpayers’ money for actual problems, like improving the education system and environment.
Howell, E., Bieler, S., Anderson, N. (2015). State of Variation in Hospital Use and Cost
of Firearm Assault Injury. Retrieved from https://www.urban.org/research/publication/state-variation-hospital-use-and-cost-firearm-assault-injury-2015