Mandatory Insurance for Gun Owners?

[Nodnarb]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/us/in-gun-debate-a-bigger-role-seen-for-insurers.html?hp&_r=1&

If they can't take our guns away completely, they're going to try and make it too expensive to own them.

 

[jgreiner]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/us/in-gun-debate-a-bigger-role-seen-for-insurers.html?hp&_r=1&

If they can't take our guns away completely, they're going to try and make it too expensive to own them.

wow, this would be a TAX on a constitutional right. what next? A free speech tax? Or a tax to vote.....oooopppps....that was already tried, and ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

 

[Ripper]

Like people don't drive without insurance?

 

[eldirector]

Like people don't drive without insurance?

It is not required. You can self-insure.

 

[Ripper]

It is not required. You can self-insure.

true...

If there's no registration or master list of guns how can they enforce insurance? This is the loop hole for registration they are looking for, with the bonus of added income for them and added cost for gun owners.

It's more about the slippery slope that this will put in place. I have no need for more insurance and even less need for someone to force me into it. If something like this would ever be put into place I know some would just never get coverage. I wouldn't need the coverage, as all of my firearms were lost in a boating accident.

 

[KG1]

How about mandatory insurance for 1A rights as well? You know, in case you slander someone.

 

[1donos]

As far as insurance driving is not a constitutional right. It is a priviledge that can be revoked by the state.
Maybe we should bring back the tax on voting???
Or only allow property owners to vote??? Our founders may have been smarter than they looked.

 

[Johnny C]

Doesnt homeowners cover folks getting injured by firearms on your property?

 

[JRPLANE]

JUST SAY NO!

 

[eldirector]

Besides, do you really think a criminal is going to call up Allstate and get an insurance policy for his Hi-Point? Really?

This is backdoor registration/confiscation from law-abiding gun owners. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[avboiler11]

Exactly *how* would this asinine suggestion reduce 'gun violence'?
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That's what I thought.

 

[KG1]

Exactly *how* would this asinine suggestion reduce 'gun violence'?
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That's what I thought.

Yep. Criminals don't give a rat's rear end about things like liability insurance.

 

[No2rdame]

Doesnt homeowners cover folks getting injured by firearms on your property?

Yeah, but there are limits. This newly proposed piece of donkey sh*t legislation would require us to carry liability insurance for potential firearms injuries anywhere. Of course, as others mentioned this is just a way to make it too cost prohibitive to own guns. Seriously, how many Mexican cartel members, Crips, Bloods, or any other these other scumbags are going to make sure their guns are insured before they go on a crime spree?

I don't know what's worse, these a-hole politicians trying to legislate us into a police state or the moron mass populace who see nothing wrong with their actions?