article_snippet.sent: An investigation spanning almost three years into the yearly cost of gun violence covered by U.S. taxpayers has determined the figure to be over $229 billion.
article_snippet.sent: A new report into the annual economic toll of gun violence in the US determined that taxpayers fork out $229 billion annually because of shootings, which is more than $700 per person.
article_snippet.sent: A new report into the annual economic toll of gun violence in the US is more than Apple's annual revenue of $174 billion and the cost of the obesity epidemic, which is $224 billion .
article_snippet.sent: The yearly cost to send someone to prison for gun-related homicide is $414,000 .
article_snippet.sent: similar investigations identified two major costs stemming from gun-related violence: direct and indirect.
article_snippet.sent: Direct costs referred to the expenses of someone actually being shot, from emergency service, to police investigations and medical bills, as well as court and prison costs for the assailant.
article_snippet.sent: Taxpayers account for about 87 percent of the direct costs involved in gun-related violence, Mother Jones reported.
article_snippet.sent: The average cost to taxpayers for a single gun homicide in America is nearly $400,000,' its own study determined. '
article_snippet.sent: For each homicide caused by a gun, the largest direct cost is prison, which costs about $414,000 for each person who committed the crime, according to Mother Jones.
article_snippet.sent: However the $229 billion total could be well be higher, because there are factors related to gun violence that could not be counted.
highlights_snippet.sent: Investigation by Mother Jones said gun violence costs $700 per American each year, with a total of $229 billion .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Indirect costs account for $169 billion for 'impact on victims' quality of life'
  Over 750,000 Americans have been injured by guns in the last 10 years .