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Bullets and bills: The cost of getting shot in America - Video
BBC News ^
| 23rd July 2018
| Hannah Long-Higgins
Posted on 07/24/2018 7:35:08 PM PDT by Ennis85
Megan Hobson still cannot walk properly since being caught in a crossfire of bullets in Florida six years ago. But for her and many other shooting victims, the price of survival is not just months of rehabilitation and operations. It is tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills with no end in sight.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; florida; guns; healthcare; shooting
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posted on
07/24/2018 7:35:08 PM PDT
by
Ennis85
To: Ennis85
So gritty and AUTHENTIC..!!
Ain’t diversity GRAND..?!
>_<
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posted on
07/24/2018 7:35:52 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: Ennis85
Abortion is the answer to everything. Just give them post-natal abortions.
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posted on
07/24/2018 7:36:27 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=600><p>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
To: Ennis85
The BBC is going to lecture us on the ills of our society?
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posted on
07/24/2018 7:37:02 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The MSM is in the business of creating a fake version of reality for political reasons.)
To: Ennis85
Medicare for all then. Right?
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posted on
07/24/2018 7:37:21 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Medicare for all then. Right? And go to the head of the line for SSD or SSI.
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posted on
07/24/2018 7:41:29 PM PDT
by
Aliska
To: Ennis85
UK...Worry about your acid attacks.
To: Ennis85
Just trying to distract their Europe-peons from UK knife attack rates up to one every four minutes.
130,000 a year>
Importing Jihadi is not wise...
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posted on
07/24/2018 8:03:41 PM PDT
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: American in Israel
Pedestrian mayhem anyone? Pretty horrible over there. I’d rather get shot.
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posted on
07/24/2018 8:31:17 PM PDT
by
Dogbert41
(When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. -Luke 11:21)
To: Dogbert41
Here it was just over a half million dollars. But if I had not been legally packing, packing at all, would have been dead.
When it was over there was no one left alive to sue.
To: Ennis85
She should move to GB for thr improved Health Care costs.
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posted on
07/24/2018 9:50:22 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(no spelchek, no problem...)
To: Ennis85
Yeah because statistically the chance of getting shot are simply.....well pretty small.
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posted on
07/24/2018 9:58:30 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: Dogbert41
The o lyrics thing holding them back is our second amendment, its tough to bring a knife to a gun fight and the Jihadi know it.
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posted on
07/25/2018 3:10:17 AM PDT
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: Ennis85
How much would it cost the UK to put her in jail for speaking her mind?
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posted on
07/25/2018 4:36:45 AM PDT
by
fruser1
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