US: Gun violence victim on life after the bullet (4) 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. Missy Mendo, a survivor of the Columbine High School shooting, says she now worries about looking for a school for her daughter. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES