Ashtin Gamblin never realized how expensive it would be to survive a mass shooting. But after being shot nine times in the attack at an L.G.B.T.Q.
nightclub in Colorado Springs last November, the bills started piling up for Ms. Gamblin. Dozens of other survivors and families of the five people killed have found themselves in a similar bind.
They lost paychecks, fell behind on rent and had to replace clothing seized as evidence (or, in one case, a wedding ring lost by the hospital).
Colorado has raised more than $3 million in donations for people affected by the Club Q shooting and distributed about $2 million, through a nonprofit called the Colorado Healing Fund.