US: Gun violence victim on life after the bullet (3) The scourge of gun violence in the US kills 36,000 Americans a year, and hundreds more are shot and wounded daily in the most-heavily armed country in the world. AFP spoke to some of the victims -- of mass shootings, and just everyday arguments that go awry -- on how their lives were changed forever when they ended up on the wrong end of a gun barrel. Left without use of her right arm and still battling PTSD from the infamous Columbine school shooting, Kacey Ruegsegger Johnson now aims to use her story in motivational speeches to help others overcome traumas of their own. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES