Posted on 08/22/2019 8:53:46 PM PDT by Beave Meister
(CNN)In the wake of mass shootings around the country, the mayor of one California city wants to require all gun owners to carry liability insurance for their weapons -- or pay a fee to help shoulder the public costs of gun violence.
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo proposed the local ordinance on Monday, and if passed by the city council, it could become the nation's first such requirement. Similar state legislation is also being considered in Massachusetts and New York.
The proposal comes just two weeks after a shooting left three people dead and injured more than 12 in Gilroy, California -- about thirty miles away from San Jose.
Offering just "thoughts and prayers" was not enough for the San Jose mayor after two families in his city lost children in the Gilroy shooting.
"While this is far from a complete solution, it is something we can do to reduce the harms of firearms, without waiting for Congress to take action," Mayor Liccardo said in a press release.
According to Liccardo's proposal, the insurance would cover "accidental discharge of the gun, and for the intentional acts of third parties who steal, borrow, or otherwise acquire the gun." It would not cover "liability of the policyholder for his or her own intentional conduct."
The requirement will not apply to sworn employees of law enforcement agencies.
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***..wants to require all gun owners to carry liability insurance for their weapons***
Why not require all CRIMINALS to carry insurance against being shot!
Maybe those who don’t own guns should have to buy liability insurance for being passive, helpless victims who have no chance to defend themselves from the consequences of democRat idiocy.
De facto registration.
How about libability(not a typo) insurance since liberalism is the most dangerous thing in the world.
this is exactly the kind of argument that should be taken to the supreme court- these new gun laws do NOT stop crime- it, just like you stated, penalizes law abiding citizens simply for exercising their inalienable right to own a gun
[[What part of “..shall not be infringed.” got lost in translation? These statutes are ripe for litigation.]]
Exactly, be cause htese laws are making it cost prohibitive for poor people to be able to protect themselves-
Can those who don’t contribute to crime get a stipend for their contribution to safety?
It’s legislative nonsense.
One source of such insurance requires NRA membership. Dear liberals, be careful what you wish for.....as you might get it and not like the full consequences.
I was told that the calculated cost of this insurance is about 7 cents per year, since cases involving collecting on this ‘insurance’ would be so rare...which is why we don’t hear of it much, except from airheads needing to be educated on it.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/san-jose-mayor-justifies-mob-violence
The guy is a real a-hole
Liberalism working as intended.
Cannot afford to live here.
Can’t afford to get out.
By jacking up the insurance rates, gun owners will no longer be able to afford their guns. Gun collectors will be priced out of guns. Proof of insurance will be gun registration.
Bookmark under stupid.
Not NO but HELL NO!!!
Which is the real goal of so-called gun control: control of the true masses, the law-abiding ones, who far outnumber the criminal ones.
Liccardo. Liccardo. Why does that name make me think of San Jose Convention Center, and of lawful American citizens being herded into violence by the San Jose Police?
He is yet another Democrat lying lawyer.
Death by a thousand cuts: make owning a gun too expensive; create a de facto registration.
A two-fer.
If this p.o.s. was really concerned about the costs, he would be shouting his demands to build the wall & deport them all.
In Commiefornia they still have not learned that there is no cure for stupid!
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