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Related: About this forumThe Excruciating Journey of a Las Vegas Massacre Survivor. WORTH a read.
This should be required reading before any conversations about gun control. Thank you, Washington Post, for doing this story. Lets see more of the consequences, over months and years of recoveriy, so we can have an informed public discourse. Insurance companies: how about giving us a total of what you paid out for shooting victims from Las Vegas and how much you denied. Lets stop hiding the FACTS.
The terrible injustice that people are put through this kind of hell, just so guns are easily accessible to mostly anyone, is so tragic and without comparison. EIGHT surgeries. Several major organs.
Who pays for this? The misery, the loss of FREEDOM, the PAIN, and the medical costs. The husband has spent almost six months by her side at the hospital. Her 89-year old mother is watching her go through this. The whole family is losing precious time and happiness and freedom from THEIR lives. For WHAT?
Dear God, I hope this woman heals soon.
LAS VEGAS On Rosemarie Melansons 153rd night in the hospital, she starts to vomit and cant stop. She pulls her knees to her chest, closes her eyes and coughs bits of strawberry banana smoothie into a plastic bin her husband, Steve, holds for her. Stephanie, their eldest daughter, stands beside the bed, her gaze fixed on the wall. Shed brought the smoothie for Rosemarie, thinking it would be a treat. But her mother has been unable to keep down food since she was shot in the upper body at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip more than five months ago.
When the heaving subsides, Stephanie offers a whisper: Im sorry mom. No, Rosemarie replies. You dont have to be sorry. My stomach does that sometimes.
Tears glisten on Stephanies cheeks. Steve catches her eye from across the bed and mouths, Its okay.
But it isnt okay, Stephanie says later. None of them have been okay since Oct. 1, when the family was caught in the crosshairs of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. Rosemarie, 54, has been hospitalized for all but two days since her excruciating recovery a testament to the all-consuming devastation a single high-velocity bullet can cause.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)erronis
(15,328 posts)Guns and similar weapons make it too easy to commit crimes against others or to take ones own life.
And they are not a very good defense against someone who has a reason to attack you.
As the weapons become even more powerful, and they will, how till the "rifle" group react? Why can't we have armor-piercing bullets? RPGs? Lasers? How many rounds per minute are a "good" limit?
Why don't the groups supporting these weapons allow them in their own offices (NRA, congress)?
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)The monetary cost has to be astronomical both medically and lost wages but the cost in terms of human suffering is incalculable. Of course it costs nothing to the NRA and the gun humpers that support them both monetarily and philosophically. And it is also why so many people have begun to hate the gunners with such a passion. They have the ability to turn a deaf ear to the aftermath in human terms of the havoc caused by the tremendous number of guns in this countrty and their easy availablity. We are truly in a seriously bad place in this country because of it and nothing is being done about it by our so-called leaders. It is long past the time to vote them out.
PLEASE DO!
mountain grammy
(26,644 posts)Should be a segment on every nightly news show about the recovery of the injured and the costs of these shootings.
kag
(4,079 posts)You're right. Everyone should read this.
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)Why ... should the victims of guns be forced to also suffer the costs? What kind of crazy is that?
If someone injures you with their car (which must be insured to have a tag) their insurance pays for your injuries... with their gun? You pay for their murderous intent ...
NickB79
(19,258 posts)The driver's insurance will most assuredly NOT pay for your injuries.
Intentional, illegal acts aren't covered by any insurances, no matter what tool is used to commit them.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,881 posts)to an article about the damage the bullets from high powered rifles do. I think photographs and x-rays of that damage should be published in newspapers and shown on the evening news. It would be easy enough to do and preserve the privacy of the people involved.
Movies and TV just don't show how awful bullet wounds are. It's not like the muskets the framers of the Constitution were familiar when they crafted the second amendment.
NickB79
(19,258 posts)lostnfound
(16,189 posts)lastlib
(23,271 posts)This is a MUST Read!!