they will have to suffer with for the rest of their lives.

We see TV dramas where the hero gets wounded and in the next episode the hero is just fine like nothing ever happened. I think this is how most people think of a gunshot wound and it couldn't be more wrong. Bullets do terrible damage when they enter the body, any part of the body.

for now. These Parkland young adults leading this crusade against the NRA won't let America forget about the wounded.... I truly believe that.

I am sure that fact is part of it. You cannot discuss medical stuff unless you get permission from patient or family.

Just pointing out that I see no basis for your claim that the Parkland kids won't let the wounded (as opposed to the killed) be forgotten.

Here is our compassionate humanitarian president comforting a young survivor.



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Some may need support their whole life.

I don't believe the lack of coverage is not a cover up. The media has little to report. The wounded individual's information is protected by their age and by privacy laws. I am glad the media is not hounding them. I'm sure that gradually many of their stories will emerge. When they, not us, are ready.

If students around the country walk out of schools in support of Parkland and outlawing automatic weapons, I hope I will jon them. I also hope all those who demonstrated against the war in Vietnam will come out and support them. The older generation supporting the younger!

It really hadn't dawned on me, that the media tends to ignore the wounded survivors and the how their experiences will affect them physically and mentally for a lifetime.

and everyone knows this is all the "price of freedom". Yeah, as long as it is someone else's kid.

will bancrupt many of them. But, like our veterans, it all gets swept under the rug and forgotten as soon as the next massacre/war happens.

There is always a deflection, something to divert our attention in this fast paced 24/7 news era. People can only focus on one time for so long, as there is another crisis around the corner.

As with mental health, in general, the supports in place for survivors of gun violence are pitifully inadequate, particularly given their broad scope. Too often, they are swept under the rug and dismissed not only by the mainstream media but also the general public. We try to fool ourselves into thinking we can erase their very real pain and damage; if we just ignore the problem, it will go away, and we don't have to take responsibility or take action to solve this very ugly, and pervasive problem. This is another awful example of where the "rugged individual" meme is harmful and only perpetuates the wounding and lifelong damage of gun violence victims. We can do so much better for each other.

for all of the medical bills, all of the funerals and the on-going care of these victims!

If the NRA can give 55 million dollars to the GOP in Congress, they can afford to take care of the victims of these crimes!

If they survive. 100 percent recovery from a high velocity bullet wound takes years, if it happens at all.

Soldiers are ever seen? How many people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Yemen and more who have been wounded are ever mentioned? It's too uncomfortable and makes it hard to sell trucks and pizzas after showing the public what the realities of these tragedies look like afterwards. Just a few American examples:

MSD HS 17 dead 15 injured
Rancho Tehama Elementary 5 dead 10 injured
Sutherland Springs Baptist 26 dead 20 injured
Las Vegas 58 dead 422 injured
Fort Lauderdale Airport 5 dead 6 injured
Dallas protest march 5 dead 9 injured
Pulse Nightclub 49 dead 53 injured
San Bernardino 14 dead 21 injured
Umpqua Community College 7 dead 6 injured
Emmanuel AME church 9 dead 1 injured
Isla Vista CA 6 dead 13 injured
Navy Yard 12 dead 8 injured
Sandy Hook 12 dead 2 injured

Just a few examples, and these injuries don't count the scars of the mind. The injured are folks from all walks of life - often including police officers responding to these killing sprees.

The two I can think of are Bobby Muller, who was founded of Vietnam Veterans of America, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Muller , and Ron Kovic, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Kovic .

Would-be gun nuts need to see the damage

What complete horseshit! The public NEEDS to know what the results of their saber-rattling and cheerleading are. Death and dismemberment should be the LAST-considered options.

will suffer for the rest of their lives.

bills (because this great country has no national health plan), they are free to start gofundme accounts, and every American is still free to buy weapons that are designed solely to kill large numbers of people quickly.





MAGA!

Contact local media, encourage those effected to send letters
and appear in person at the NRA offices and Politicians who
support NRA policies requesting they assist in paying the bills.
If they don't respond, come back with media and demand their
assistance. Make copies of the bills minus personal info available
on social media. Maybe icons to be constantly displayed in
public, signs, t-shirts, caps (sort of like for wounded warriors).

Link to tweet

Anthony’s father, Royer Borges, calls his son a hero.

During the gunman’s rampage, Anthony “was able to save about 20 other students as he attempted to close and lock the door to a classroom,” Royer Borges wrote on a GoFundMe page set up to help the courageous teen, which has raised more than $198,000 so far.

“He was shot multiple times,” his father wrote.

Both legs were shot, his left upper thigh bone was shattered and a bullet went through his back, he wrote.

Anthony is in stable condition and has undergone several surgeries.

http://people.com/crime/heroic-15-yr-old-shot-5-times-saving-20-students/




Is says they have raised 586,000 so far...............I have an active link above where it says GoFundMe.

Rec

For way too log we have lived in a state of sanitized carnage.

Show the injuries and if it makes you sick, good!

Life is not rated G.

I can only imagine. But, ya know, people gotta have their guns to live a full and happy life.

These wounded kids HAVE to be brave. What choice do they have?

I often wonder about the fates of the wounded, as well as the psychological scars of the witnesses who were fortunate to not be struck by a bullet.

BY JENNIFER SMITH RICHARDS, ANNIE SWEENEY AND JASON MEISNER
CHICAGO TRIBUNE / JULY 21, 2017

... Back in 2009, gunshot inpatients in Chicago averaged about $57,963 in charges for their hospital stay. Through the first half of last year, inpatients racked up $93,647 on average in hospital charges ...

... A recent study by Stanford University succeeded in examining eight years of data, to 2014, and found that initial hospitalizations involving firearm injuries cost $734.6 million a year nationally ...

http://www.govtech.com/em/safety/The-Bill-for-Treating-a-Gunshot-Wound-21000-for-the-First-35-Minutes.html

It must be seen and felt before lasting progress is made.

Thank you.

The injuries that the teenage shooting victims suffered were horrifying. Brain injuries, amputations, spinal injuries....all of it was awful to read about. The survivors of assault weapon shootings suffer from life long disabilities. This is what the public is not seeing, the horror of the aftermath.