It’s impossible to describe to someone who has never been shot, video producer John Owens writes in a Free Press guest commentary.
"For me it was an intense burning that, for lack of a better word, electrified my body for nearly a week. The pain was so intense that I felt like jumping out my skin. It was a living nightmare, a nightmare I share with an estimated 268 people who are shot in America on any given day. One gun, one bullet changes everything.
"The pistol in my case was purchased at a local gun show, then stolen and resold on the street. I can only calculate the cost of that gun in my personal life. Surgeries, rehab, wheelchairs, adaptive driving devices, pain medication — it goes on and on — more than half million dollars in medical care to keep me alive."
