The Aug. 13 news article “For Colorado victims, challenges go beyond injuries” explored the dim financial prospects facing the surviving victims of the Colorado theater shooting. The available options predominantly involve the victims’ ability to pay for their own recoveries, which often can require years. Coping with these expenses, victims increasingly have to rely on the ingenuity of their families and friends to create appealing pitches for contributions.
Would gun advocates support a liability fund for gun-violence victims financed by the gun and ammunition industry and by an annual tax on gun owners? Gun violence is a chronic problem in our society, not a set of widely spaced, fluke events. If we don’t have the political courage to eliminate the problem, can we at least man up politically to pay for the inevitable consequences of gun violence?
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