Commentary: For every person shot in Illinois, costs accrue in multiple places. One 63-cent bullet leads to more than $100,000 in hospital bills.
Otis Moss III, Ciera Bates-Chamberlain, Michael Pfleger and Seth LimmerA quick check of Ammo.com — which proclaims itself as the “best source for discount ammo” — tells us we can buy a bullet for a .357-caliber Magnum for about 63 cents.That’s what it costs to buy a single bullet.
. The calculator factors in the widening ripple effect of a bullet’s launch from a chamber: the immediate costs of hospital treatment and police response; second-level expenditures related to long-term physical and mental health care, institutional care, foregone earnings and criminal justice costs; and long-term quality-of-life costs for pain and suffering over a victim’s lifetime.
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