Or, sue the NRA for every single instance of gun violence. Just like the tobacco companies were sued.

Maybe if the NRA had to pay for all the damage, they'd change their ways?

agents of death, and insurance to protect the innocent victims. Add to that, alcohol-feuled, DUI events. Makes sense to license firearm "vehicles" whose only purpose is death.

If you or I choose to purchase a sports car, certain type of motorcycle, etc, we have to pay premiums. Not because of our own driving records, but because of the statistical likelihood that that TYPE of vehicle will be involved in an accident.

So why the hell not make gun nuts pay the costs associated with their sick fetish.

If you or I choose to purchase a sports car, certain type of motorcycle, etc, we have to pay premiums. Not because of our own driving records, but because of the statistical likelihood that that TYPE of vehicle will be involved in an accident.

that's the thing, though: the statistical likelihood of any given firearm (and particularly those of the people who would honor the requirement - it's a given that career criminals won't) causing harm is very , very low. Insurance companies set premiums based on actuarial tables...and there's no reason to assume such premiums would be high.

I like the idea of requiring insurance...but as an end-around method of instituting a de facto ban, it won't work.

Gun insurance should be required as a prerequisite for owning guns like auto insurance is for driving.


Well regulated or not?



You choose.





If it's not really a big deal the NRA should jump all over the offer......

and tax newspapers who wish to print the news..No, you cannot charge people to exercise their rights.

Not for vehicle ownership.

If the goal is to give rich people an advantage, it would work just fine.

I don't see why it wouldn't work for gun ownership too.

seriously, dude, are you reading the same news story i'm reading

she did pay, she paid with her life

doesn't seem to have prevented a tragedy here

if you make insurance insanely expensive then you criminalize ownership for the poor and the middle class and make having a gun a symbol of wealth...surely a moment's thought will tell you why that wouldn't reduce gun ownership among showboating young males, the most likely group to commit these mass murderers.

the penalties need to be the same for rich and poor...that is what works in foreign lands where gun crime is low

At this point in our country we need to try everything we can to stop this proliferation of guns.

It's the least we can do.