Gun Murder's High Price

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By Henry Goldman

January 4, 2013 at 1:11 AM UTC

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This article is part of the January 7, 2013 issue of businessweek.

Gun violence takes an economic toll as well as an emotional one. The Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation used 2010 data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to estimate the dollar cost of a single gun death.