It's extremely difficult, as a physician, to see someone who has had a gunshot wound, but it's not just me. It's the people who surround that individual who has had the gunshot wound. It's the family. It's the community. This is an injury that has multiple rippling effects. Again, it doesn't just keep the individuals who are injured out of work and decrease their own lives and productivity, but it does so for their families and communities.
All the statistics we look at that are just about the one person who may have died do not capture the rippling effects of gunshot wounds.