It is not just the gunshot victims whom psychiatrists are seeing.

The report said 92 percent of gunshot victims who are hospitalized now survive.

Curtis has never heard the cry made by a gunshot victim.

Where are all the gunshot victims going to go?

"Out of every five calls we'd get, maybe three were gunshot victims," he said.

His dad had married a nurse; he'd met her after bringing a gunshot victim into the emergency room.

In the first 10 days of this year, doctors treated more than 47 gunshot victims, half of them women and children.

The development of hospital trauma centers has saved more gunshot victims from death.

In January 2003, the morgue received 246 bodies, including those of 17 gunshot victims.

Last month, 696 corpses arrived for autopsy, including 386 gunshot victims.