- who was this?
- where was he?
- why was he there?
- what was he doing?
tough to say you represent a people and have no idea about their roots
In recent weeks we have been deluged with legislative proposals attacking our Second Amendment Civil Rights in the wake of the horrific murders in Connecticut. One such proposal has been mandatory liability insurance for anyone lawfully owning any type of gun. Lawful gun owners rightfully consider this to be simply another way to tax gun ownership. They are of course correct on that assumption, but this proposal goes much deeper and is much more insidious!
The anti-civil rights movement would gladly add taxes to our ability to lawfully possess guns, but the real purpose for mandatory insurance is to avoid the legislative and regulatory process altogether. The real purpose for insurance is to bring the “power” of the insurance companies against the Second Amendment. What does that mean? Our opposition has crafted a new way to attack us through the potential policies of private insurance companies who make up their own rules as to whom they insure and under what circumstances. Here are some possible examples of how these attacks could happen:
Mandatory storage laws currently exist in Massachusetts. An insurance company as a condition of coverage could mandate an inspection of how you are complying with those laws. They could easily mandate the most expensive safes or even where those safes are kept.
If you keep a loaded gun in the home for defensive measures, insurance premiums could be drastically increased or simply not provided.
As so-called new technologies are proposed for firearms such as GPS locators insurance companies could mandate that all of our guns are “updated” as a condition of insurance.
These companies could use bogus statistics from groups like the Violence Policy Center as a means of raising premiums for the ownership of certain firearms or deny coverage outright.
If you have children in your home or perhaps an aging parent or spouse, companies can mandate certain conditions or again deny coverage.
They could insist that ballistic information about your firearms be submitted to them and in return the government. The excuse used would be to defend a claim by using such info.
Insurance companies would also be able to go after the industry as well. Federal legislation was passed years ago to prevent the firearms industry to be bankrupted from bogus lawsuits. However, the insurance companies would not bring lawsuits, but instead more insurance “policies” about what can be sold to their customers and how they should be manufactured.
In the case that an insurance company chooses not to cover people for any reason, the mandatory insurance would then be provided by the government. This would further regulate how you obtain your insurance policy.
These are just a few examples of the real purpose behind mandatory insurance so don’t be fooled that it will simply be an “affordable” and “reasonable” component to “responsible” gun ownership.
God Bless Texas. Come on down!
And Guns N’ Roses will be considered assault music.
you get what you vote for Massachusetts. Enjoy it. Personally, I’d take the loss and move if I lived in that shiite hole of a commie state.
Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.
This is now getting exposure here and I have been trying to get newspapers and tv to cover it. Talk radio is already on it. I think it has little chance to pass but we are vigilant.
For those in MA having trouble getting ammo: you can order ammo mail order and have it delivered to a friend out of state. Under the Gun owners Protection Act it is perfectly legal for you to go pick it up and bring it back to MA. Make sure it’s secured in your trunk. make sure you have your FID on you.
Ironic for a state that celebrates the battles of Lexington and Concord on the third Monday in April - Patriot’s Day.
tough to say you represent a people and have no idea about their roots
So, what the Brits tried to do in 1775 today’s Mass government hopes to succeed?
Remember when Gen Gage called for the people of BOSTON to turn in their arms....THEY DID!
http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/faneuil-hall
Following the first shots of the American Revolution at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, on April 27, the military governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and commander-in-chief of all British forces in North America, General Thomas Gage, ordered all firearms owned by the Boston citizenry stored in Faneuil Hall.
On April 27, “1778 fire arms, 634 pistols, 973 bayonets and 38 blunderbusses” were received, properly labeled with the names of the owners, and sorted for storage at Faneuil Hall. Gage promised the weapons would be returned to their owners “at a suitable time”.
Gage feared an attack on Boston was imminent and feared the civilian populace would join in the resistance, confronting him with an inner and outer enemy.
Anyone out there detected any “lines in the sand” yet?
No? Didn’t think so. Sorry to interrupt the posting.
As they continue to destroy this country, they are begging for a Civil War.
I am a peaceful guy and I believe that most conservatives are, but there is a breaking point and it could be around the next bend.
No insurance company is going to offer insurance. That means that this is equivalent to confiscation.
Notice how they are quick to create new crimes. Notice how eager they are to put innocent people in jail for what is not now a “crime.”
Notice how they don’t give one flying $h!i+ about taking guns from violent criminals.
Deval Patrick=a feral black in a suit.
I’m sure the criminals that actually commit genuine gun crimes will comply.
You know, they’ve complied all along with the mountains of gun laws already passed.
this is just disarmament under the guise of ‘safety’ or ‘regulation’.
And to think that the militia in Lexington, Mass once fought the government for trying to seize their guns.
Bump for later
The birthplace of liberty indeed.
And if the libs really want to rub it in, they can have Deval Patrick sign the law at the Old North Bridge in Concord.
I can see these "Gun Clubs" being broken into and cleaned out on a regular basis. And the "govmint" will never, ever, be able to solve the crime.