Posted on 01/22/2013 1:44:53 PM PST by Daffynition
As the gun debate heats up, one idea seems particularly suited for Connecticut to consider: liability insurance for gun owners.
This is the kind of mandatory insurance you have to get to drive a car — and the kind of protection that costs more if you want to take what the industry knows is a calculated risk. Letting your teenager get behind the wheel is a good example.
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Hey Rick Green, go back to reporting about the Hartford Public Schools. That was your forte.
That’s like getting insurance for your right to vote, you ignorant ninny.
Nope.
Already been discussed by MA Libs. Minimum $500K insurance on each separate firearm owned. For a small collection, annual premium would run between $20K and $50K.
Will the state provide “Obamadork Felon Insurance” to give me some Obamabucks when I successfully defend myself against one of his voters?
Liberal idiots need liability insurance.
Crimes (including negligence) are not insurable. Accidents are few and far between. Guns are less dangerous than other items.
Insurance for the right to vote IS the Second Amendment.
Driving a vehicle on roads paid for by taxing the citizenry is a privilege.
Owing a hadgun in defense of one's life and property is not. It is a right, endowed upon us by our Creator. And per the Constitution, government is enjoined from infringing on that right. Period.
Liability insurance for gun owners? Puhleeze. I will not comply.
That sounds a lot like infringement.
It needs a clause requiring magazines and newspapers and TV stations to pay a truth tax on every issue they print.
It’s not the same as car insurance. With auto insurance you put other drivers and pedestrians at risk by driving on public roads. If you own a car but don’t register it and simply keep it in your garage, you don’t need it insured. So, if you’re going to walk around randomly spraying bullets, by all means, lets require insurance for that. Secondly, if the purpose of requiring insurance (stated or otherwise) is to make it prohibitedly expensive for someone to own a gun, then that in and of itself is infringing on ones right to own firearms.
Poll tax.
I’ll pay a 2nd Amendment tax when all the libtard journalists pay a First Amendment Free Speech tax for spewing their biased propaganda everyday.
How about actual GUN CRIMINALS being fined/taxed?!?! The law abiding aren’t criminals shooting others. And even if they do, shooting in self defense arguably keeps costs down, by reducing the number of people the criminal thug can injure or murder. uncalcuable really, how many future families won’t be robbed or injured or murdered because a lawful gun owner shoots that criminal in self defense?
Every shooting, insured or uninsured, legal or illegal will drive costs up.
How convenient.
This is a registration scheme.
Also a huge amount of money, which would attract some people.
Hmm, it’s a scheme to get the burbs to pay for urban ER care as well.
The gov’t is preparing to bill your family for the bullet used to put you down.
Spot on.
remember folks,
the MAJOR push opposing self defense RIGHTS via stand your ground was from PLAINTIFF’s Lawyers.
They mooched off of the home owner insurance. Stand you ground laws WERE TORT REFORM because it eliminated libility and hit the plaintiff’s bar in the wallet.
I have a $2 million liability umbrella policy.
Maybe I should review what all it covers.
Hmmm, illegals don’t have to get liability insurance for their illegal cars which they drive with illegal licenses which provide them the ability to illegally vote.
(Don’t try that “the law says they have to be insured Obamastuff with me...we all know that illegals obey the law about as much as the Obamadork and the Holder “MyPeople” dork.)
But we should get gun insurance for what - exactly?
Using a gun to defend ourselves?
I REALLY hate to make snap judgments based on someone’s appearance, but his guy looks like your typical East Coast leftard elitist.
In short, he looks like a doooosh.
Anyway, back to my cave.
How about requiring insurance that pays on slander lawsuits before a person can exercise their freedom of speech?
What’s amazing is that the $2 million umbrella policy only costs about $50 a year more than the $15K policy I have on a collector bass guitar I own.
Then when some liberal lefty wants a list of gun owners, all he has to do is demand that the insurance companies, or the state insurance commission, provide it.
This could backfire (no pun intended)... once you give the data to actuaries, I expect that they will show that “shooting insurance” risks less money per insured than does car. But this is of course registration via a private back door.
Let’s tax homosexuals. Their behavior is far more risky than owning a gun.
I think a more appropriate venue for insurance companies to investigate is insurance for people who abuse the 1st Amendment, as this @sshole and the MSM do on an hourly basis.
I can't even tell if I'm being sarcastic anymore.
No more effective self defense for senior citizens living on social security or anyone else with low to moderate income..
Under no circumstances will any government agency know what guns may or may not be in my house. Drop dead you JBTs.
Until the 2nd Amendment is completely repealed, any law by Federal, state or local government is illegal because they are violating “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED”.
No insurance will write insurance for gun owners. None. Requiring insurance will be like confiscating guns.
And that is their intention.
When anyone who opens their mouth has to have liability insurance, then I’ll consider whether guns also need it.
I am at a loss as to how one would create actuarial tables on which one would base a premiums.
Have you read that piece of shiite?
I fear it will pass through the Dem controlled legislature like crap through a goose. I have sent off a couple of steamy letters to my Rep and Senator. I will not comply. This is ridiculous.
Either that, or I will transfer all but one pistol from my collection to a friend who lives in RI until I can move out of this shiite hole state. I am beyond p!$$ed off.
How about liability insurance for free speech to
protect against Assault charges.
Sounds like insurance lobby supports thi$.
Gov. Patrick is pushing it in MA.
If you can be forced to purchase health insurance, then....
This is a very bad development. I give it a 100% chance of passage.
Does the city of Hartford carry liability insurance for attacks on people within the city limits?
The left loves “compromise.”
Here’s mine:
I’ll get gun liability insurance like for my car if they make guns more like cars in other respects:
1. The public funds ranges and widespread other facilities for me to operate my guns. My insurance (at free-marker rates) is needed only for use at those locations, and not for when I’m merely transporting a gun, or storing it at home, or having it with me without operating its mechanisms.
2. I can buy and sell guns to or from anyone with no government involvement or record keeping, except for those guns I will operate on publicly-funded ranges.
3. My right to operate my guns at publicly-funded ranges is the same in all states as in my own, and I can own, possess, hold, transport, and operate on private property any gun of any type in any state.
We just need to Fluke this whole thing...
Since our 2nd Amendment rights are spelled out
in the Bill of Rights perhaps we should demand
like Ms.Fluke that the government pay for any
insurance needed. I won’t go into the government
supplying us with guns and ammo, that comes later.
It needs a clause requiring magazines and newspapers and TV stations to pay a truth tax on every issue they print.
A tax paid for by all publishers, setting up a fund to compensate those who were harmed by their errors or lies.
I already have liability insurance, of course. It only makes sense.
Wait, you mean MANDATING all gun owners to buy liability insurance?
Well, hey, let’s get an opinion from Chief Jackass John Roberts. If he’s for it, there’s no stopping it.
Show me where the Constitution recognizes an uninfringeable right to drive a car and we'll talk.
Until then, keep you back-door registration efforts off of my rights.
Show me where the Constitution recognizes an uninfringeable right to drive a car and we'll talk.
Until then, keep you back-door registration efforts off of my rights.
Every ass should have to get liability insurance for his jawbone!
lol....I know the feeling.
Yes, let’s rip off the legitimate gun owners. We wouldn’t want a criminal to get shot. Wouldn’t be fair.
I guess on the rich will be able to protect themselves.
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