I mean, you're clearly not willing to be rational on this, or you would never have brought it up.
What do you want me to do, waste my time researching the daily operating costs? Spend hours hunting sources you'll just tl;Dr?
What's the point? Even if you're right, it's irrelevant.
What costs more, a bullet, or the medical care to recover from being shot? How much credit do you want to give someone for killing a hundred people while forcing a thousand out of their homes just because they only almost let the thousand starve to death in a refugee camp run by rapists?
I live in a formerly purple county, one of the wealthiest in the nation, that the Democrats have entirely abandoned despite being able to win local elections.
The only reason I have any choice at all most of the time is that I know I can choose to leave my votes for local offices blank.
I mean, when the state of Louisiana agrees, it's only reasonable to wonder if you're being the baddy.