Whether a gunshot wound is accidental or not, it's still the same cost to the health system and to society... And there's not a lot of data, but the best study we have is that the cost is on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
Firearms-related deaths and injuries also cost NZ hundreds of millions of dollars per year. You cannot only count the benefits and discard all the costs... www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
Firearm-Related Hospitalization and Death in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2000 to 2023 : A Cohort Study www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
RP @pcgvr.org: "The high costs of firearm-related injuries underscore the importance of improving firearm-related harm reduction in NZ. This will depend on maintaining and strengthening current firearm access restrictions and could be enhanced through f…