Gusterson: All Gun Owners Should Bear the Cost of Shooting Victims’ Medical Expenses

Gusterson: All Gun Owners Should Bear the Cost of Shooting Victims’ Medical Expenses

 

Gun owners have managed to externalize the medical costs of their gun ownership to the rest of us.

This is not a gun control proposal, but a proposal to more fairly distribute the costs of America’s love affair with guns. It might even have beneficial implications for gun safety: By increasing the costs of gun ownership, it might encourage Americans to buy fewer guns. And it might encourage gun owners, seeking discounts, to take more gun safety classes, or to buy gun safes for their homes, in which roughly 4.6 million minors live with unsecured guns. 

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