US gun violence costs $229 billion a year: Study
21AM [Updated: Fri Sep 20, 2019 07:23AM ]/ Gun violence in the United States has reached the highest levels in decades and is taking a growing toll the country’s economy, costing the US nearly $230 billion in 2017, according to a new study. Nearly 40,000 people were killed by firearms in 2017, which included around 2,500 school-aged children, according to the released Wednesday by Democrats on Congress' Joint Economic Committee. The report found that US teens and young adults, ages 15-24, are 50 times more likely to die by gun violence than ...
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