Guess who will be the first to inform the Perps or their families lawyers, that the person defending themselves has big bucks to sue for?
How much is book insurance?
Rules for Radicals??
Sure, when criminals start marching to the police station to present their insurance certificates.
Home rule should be rescinded for DC. They are doing a terrible job and consistently violating the people’s rights. Or, alternatively, the Congress should pass a law which abrogates the right of the DC City Council to legislate in the area of guns. As many states have done to reign in their big city libtard politicians and citizens.
Imagine if they tried to pass the same rule for abortion clinic customers.
California will pass one, but it will be for one million.
The D.C. Council is considering requiring people to purchase liability insurance before they can get a license to work for newspapers or broadcast media.
The bill would mandate that prospective journalists maintain at least a $250,000 policy. The policy would cover damages from negligent acts or intentional acts that aren’t undertaken in self-defense.
It's no different legally or morally from taxing the possession of firearms. I imagine they would still object, but it's about their selfish perspective, not morals or values.
Truthfully, D.C. should have long ago been purchased by eminent domain. It is 68 square miles of land and water, and if it was entirely US government land, except for foreign embassies, it would have some huge advantages.
1) All transport in the district except for VIP and foreign embassy vehicles would be public transport. A secure supply truck route would preclude truck bombs. So almost no traffic and far less air pollution. Heavy trafficked areas would have covered moving sidewalks similar to many airport concourses. Therefore there could be significantly greater public access.
2) The Watergate hotel district, restaurants and other retailers would all be by concession.
3) All the ghettos would be bulldozed, so there would be abundant room for parks, memorials, amphitheaters, and underlying all would be new infrastructure.
4) Since no one could legally loiter in the district, street crime would be reduced significantly, though not much would change with white collar crime.
5) Management of the district would no longer be done by a corrupt government, but by an appointed city manager.