Posted on 06/16/2022 5:24:26 PM PDT by DFG
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California would be the first state to require gun owners to buy liability insurance to cover the negligent or accidental use of their firearms, if lawmakers approve a measure announced Thursday.
“Guns kill more people than cars. Yet gun owners are not required to carry liability insurance like car owners must,” Democratic state Sen. Nancy Skinner said in a statement.
She said the costs of gun violence shouldn't be borne by taxpayers, survivors, families, employers and communities: "It’s time for gun owners to shoulder their fair share.”
The state of New York is considering a similar requirement in the wake of numerous recent mass shootings and a rise in gun violence.
In January, the Silicon Valley city of San Jose approved what’s believed to be the first such insurance requirement in the United States.
No insurance company will cover the misuse of a firearm, predicted Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California.
He said such requirements are an illegal infringement on gun owners' constitutional rights.
“We don’t believe you can put precursors on the exercising of a constitutional right," Paredes said. "By requiring somebody to get insurance in order to exercise their right to keep and bear arms, that ceases to make it a right.”
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Or Constitution insurance for all politicians. If they support any measure deemed Unconstitutional they owe all taxpayers damages. Say $1,000 per citizen affected per action.
correct. A person has to spend money to exercise a right guaranteed in the Constitution. No different than a poll tax to exercise a person’s right to vote.
Does not pass constitutional muster.
It’s like requiring everyone to hold liability insurance in case they accidentally or maliciously defame somebody.
And the best part is if insurance companies decline to issue policies, all gun owners become liable to criminal prosecution. The state has the address of all gun owners who have followed California laws up to this time.
Or the state will become the insurer of last result. I’m sure their prices will be reasonable.
/s
Note that it will probably take several election cycles to weed most desperate Democrats and RINOs out of federal and state governments.
Also, as a side note to this thread, please consider the following.
Vaccines Kill More Than Guns According to Government Data [VIDEO] (6.4.22)
Hmm, insurance provider requires serial numbers of all guns before policies issued. Government subpoenas the insurance compnay files ... yeah, this will generate that lsit the fedzilla needs in order to confiscate ALL guns.
Gangs could probably get a reduced rate. That’d be a good recruiting tool. Bloods and Crips could compete for the best people.
Most gun-related deaths in the USA are suicides.
Hogwash.
Anyone who “carries” and is not insured is foolhardy at best.
You missed the /s tag for sarcasm
The gangs would likely be able to get a group rate for their insurance and that war clause pay out rider would help mitigate full gang fights for territory.
A once great state that is now a $hithole.
Would democrats exempt their shadow street gangs like ANTIFA and BLM?
Or would they come up with a way for taxpayers to pay the insurance for their hired killers?
I fired off email to the shrew’s office and gave her a little patch of Hell over it.
This is the logical equivilent of a poll tax.
NHTSA says 2020 auto deaths is 38,824 while total gun deaths for 2020 (latest year compiled), is 45,222. While that obviously is higher, we need to look at murder using guns, which is what’s driving the libs over the cliff on gun control. There were 19,384 murders that year. The rest were suicides and accidents.
I wish it were sarcasm. In NY they passed a bill requiring gun registration. After a felon was caught with a firearm, the SC eventually ruled the requirement for felons to register their firearms was unconstitutional because it violated his Fifth Amendment right to no be forced to provide evidence against himself. The law was and is only enforced against the law abiding gun owners.
I have a mental picture of the Crips & the Bloods buying LIABILITY insurance...along with all the other gangs.
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Just put up a little kiosk next to the Obama Phone kiosks.
And have the Govt. pay, just like for the Obama Phones.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL. You can’t but such an onerous burden on a CONSTITUTIONALLY-PROTECTED RIGHT.
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