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Time Is Ripe To Consider Liability Insurance For Gun Owners
Hart\ford Courant ^ | January 22, 2013 | Rick Green

Posted on 01/22/2013 1:44:53 PM PST by Daffynition

As the gun debate heats up, one idea seems particularly suited for Connecticut to consider: liability insurance for gun owners.

This is the kind of mandatory insurance you have to get to drive a car — and the kind of protection that costs more if you want to take what the industry knows is a calculated risk. Letting your teenager get behind the wheel is a good example.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment
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To: Daffynition

There are 2,453 SIDS deaths per 100,000 children in the U.S. on average. There are 2,186 firearm related homocides per 100,000 children aged 0 - 19. Based upon this statistic alone, since we must save at least one child’s life, there should be liability insurance mandated for anyone who has children.


61 posted on 01/22/2013 3:50:50 PM PST by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: MetaThought

bump for later


62 posted on 01/22/2013 3:53:02 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: x1stcav
I REALLY hate to make snap judgments based on someone’s appearance, but his guy looks like your typical East Coast leftard elitist.

Yeah, never seen a guy out in the woods that looks like that. Why do they all wear those kind of glasses?

63 posted on 01/22/2013 3:58:07 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: Daffynition

I already have my own gun liability insurance..... I built it myself and I call it my “gun range”.


64 posted on 01/22/2013 4:07:01 PM PST by Gator113 (Leave my guns alone and REGISTER THE DAMN LIBERALS!!)
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To: Daffynition

In the event that I was called as a juror for a civil trial in a firearms lawsuit, I would do my duty as an American on the jury. Nullification can be a moral obligation.


65 posted on 01/22/2013 4:29:40 PM PST by Pollster1
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To: Daffynition

The best liability insurance is to not leave any witnesses or survivors.


66 posted on 01/22/2013 4:31:20 PM PST by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Touché.


67 posted on 01/22/2013 4:42:02 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (TYRANNY: When the people fear the politicians. LIBERTY: When the politicians fear the people.)
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To: Daffynition

And liability insurance for “journalists,” meaning people who write for state-controlled media.


68 posted on 01/22/2013 4:53:43 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (TYRANNY: When the people fear the politicians. LIBERTY: When the politicians fear the people.)
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To: Daffynition

It would make much more sense to create a new “security tax” on those who do not purchase a firearm and remain proficient in the use of that firearm for their own self defense. How about a tax break for those who get a CC permit?


69 posted on 01/22/2013 4:56:49 PM PST by TheDon (Criminalizing self defense contributed to the Sandy Hook massacre.)
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To: Daffynition
Dear Stupid Dem's, be careful for what you wish as it may come true.

If some stupid liability insurance requirement is put into law, I would expect that the NRA and other organizations would negotiate policies and use them as a membership development tool.

So Dem's, while I will oppose such liability insurance (as I already have an extra blanket liability policy in place), this could be the best thing ever to build NRA membership.

70 posted on 01/22/2013 5:23:31 PM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: Daffynition
Dear Stupid Dem's, be careful for what you wish as it may come true.

If some stupid liability insurance requirement is put into law, I would expect that the NRA and other organizations would negotiate policies and use them as a membership development tool.

So Dem's, while I will oppose such liability insurance (as I already have an extra blanket liability policy in place), this could be the best thing ever to build NRA membership.

71 posted on 01/22/2013 5:30:08 PM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: Gator113
So, you're telling me you are one of those *responsible gun owners* I've been reading so much about lately. We can't have that. :)


72 posted on 01/22/2013 5:40:51 PM PST by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: Daffynition

how many other constutional rights require insuruance?

oh yes, women now have to pay for abortion insurance.

seriously, this insurance is about justifying the oversupply of LAW SCHOOLS.


73 posted on 01/22/2013 5:48:43 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: TheDon

how about mandatory “lawyer on retainer” insurance?

how about mandatory “quartering” insurance? incase the government has to abolish the third amendment.

heck how about bill of rights insurance incase you misuse rights. ie vote for the wrong person....


74 posted on 01/22/2013 5:57:16 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Daffynition

Yep. LOL

I am so darn responsible that I bought a new weapon light for Remington 870. I have been building the shotgun into a home defense gun this month.
The light arrived yesterday and I love it, love it, love it.


75 posted on 01/22/2013 6:44:58 PM PST by Gator113 (Leave my guns alone and REGISTER THE DAMN LIBERALS!!)
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To: Gator113
I sez it B4, 'n I'll say it again....


76 posted on 01/22/2013 7:23:12 PM PST by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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To: Daffynition

;>)


77 posted on 01/22/2013 8:51:46 PM PST by Gator113 (Leave my guns alone and REGISTER THE DAMN LIBERALS!!)
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To: SaxxonWoods
I have a $2 million liability umbrella policy. Maybe I should review what all it covers.

I have an Akita dog, and I was refused an umbrella policy. Besides the breed discrimination, do you think your umbrella policy recognizes liability of people who steal your guns?

78 posted on 01/22/2013 11:01:01 PM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Daffynition
See this is how you do gun registration without the Government mandating you must register your guns.

You allow civil cases to be brought wherein someone has his ass sued off because a gun he legally owned was stolen and used to harm someone.

Then you allow insurance companies to sell gun insurance as a helpful service. Then you let it be known that if you don't have gun insurance a successful civil case can end up losing you everything you own including your home.

Then you quietly pass a law that makes it mandatory all Insurance companies must comply with the New Insurance laws and you bury the clause about turning over all gun ownership records in addendum 748 in section 2276 of the Saving the world for the Children and Rainbows and Candy Canes Insurance act of 2013.

79 posted on 01/22/2013 11:14:19 PM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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