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MN: Report: Gun violence costs Minnesota taxpayers the bulk of $764 million each year
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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Your precious Second Amendment rights are kind of expensive. In the Strib, Karen Zamora writes, An April shooting at a law office on St. Paul's Cathedral Hill exacted a tragic toll, cutting short the promising life of 23-year-old law clerk Chase Passauer. The crime also had major economic repercussions. The costs of the investigation and incarceration, workers' compensation payments and burial expenses added up to roughly $7 million $2 million of it footed by Minnesota taxpayers. Those figures appear in a study released Thursday by the self-described bipartisan advocacy group Minnesota Coalition for Common Sense. The report focuses on the high, sometimes hidden economic cost of firearm crimes. |
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shootergdv
(12/2/2016)
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| This kind of study means little if you don't look at the benefit side of cost/benefits. How many lives(thus income/insurance payouts/cost of prison time for a person convicted of maiming/killing someone who did NOT have the means to defend themselves) and on and on. |
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Uncommon1
(12/2/2016)
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| You can bet the presence of the thousands of primitive Somalians in greater Minneapolis cost the state about that much as well, but they're muslims so they get a pass. |
| Comment by:
Sosalty
(12/2/2016)
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| How much does society save in brutalized lives, theft, and court costs every time a perp dies after his/her threats are stopped by armed self defense? |
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