Another New Law In The Works?

benchmark · Sep 1, 2019

"Less than a month after a mass shooting in California, San Jose is considering a proposal that would make it the first city in the U.S. to require gun owners to carry liability insurance.
Mayor Sam Liccardo, who introduced the legislation last week, says the mandate would follow the "harm reduction" approach used with car insurance: rewarding safe behavior, while covering the cost of accidents and neglect."

Lets hear it, are we opposed? lol

mortar maggot · Sep 1, 2019

How about NO!!!!

Gun grabbers will never stop

No_Regerts · Sep 1, 2019

Considering no one returned fire but police or damaged anything else, what does this law have to do with gun owners? Nothing. Its not "harm reduction" model, its a punitive model. Just think of how many car accidents there are vs negligent discharges. Those are truly analogous and one happens WAY more than the other.

ZA_Survivalist · Sep 1, 2019

That opens them up to national conceal carry and allowing other state citizens the ability to carry in their state and nation wide. Just as with a vehicle. And at that point one could probably take a capacity or banned firearm case to court striking down some of the nonsensical laws california has on the books.

Its a can of worms those halfwits haven't really thought about. Then again, they abuse the judicial system and would find a way to just keep what they're doing unconstitutional.. as it currently is. One day that state will burn to the ground. And that day cannot come soon enough.

ma96782 · Sep 1, 2019

OBAMA required us to buy health care insurance so????

BUT.......for the record.......I also opposed that scheme (to make his buddies rich) too.

Aloha, Mark

PS....IMHO.....
Any law that requires a private individual to buy a certain product (sold buy a private company).....is just WRONG.

What about "car insurance"?

Well....the GOVT doesn't even deport illegals who are driving around without insurance. And, BTW....I can remember a time when HI would pay for no-fault coverage (paying pvt insurance carriers) for those on Welfare. Yeah....like the bus isn't running a deficit too? So, what's that all about?

But then, both CA and HI are blue states. And guess who got generous campaign donations from the insurance lobby?

thorborg · Sep 1, 2019

The constitution is my liability insurance paid for through the excessive taxes I pay both state and federal.

If that's not good enough then every man, woman, child and all pets and livestock they own that has any potential by any means to do harm to another must also purchase and carry insurance. Is that not "fair" personified?

Hawaiian · Sep 1, 2019

Step 1. Require all gun owner to purchase firearm liability insurance.
Step 2. Legislate a forfeiture penalty for failure to maintain firearm liability insurance.
Step 3. Ban firearm liability insurers from writing insurance in the state. (think NRA sponsored insurance.)
Step 4 Confiscate all firearms for failure to maintain firearm liability insurance.

Flopsweat · Sep 1, 2019

It seems pretty clear this is just the next attack that they had planned and waiting for something bad to happen. Notice how it wouldn't have affected any of the recent shootings. I'm sure they have a few more lined up. God forbid they pass something that actually saves lives.

Hawaiian said:
Step 1. Require all gun owner to purchase firearm liability insurance.
Step 2. Legislate a forfeiture penalty for failure to maintain firearm liability insurance.
Step 3. Ban firearm liability insurers from writing insurance in the state. (think NRA sponsored insurance.)
Step 4 Confiscate all firearms for failure to maintain firearm liability insurance.

Step 1: Pass any law you can any way to can to further punish and infringe.
Step 2: Go to Step 1.

P7M13 · Sep 1, 2019

It would make it prohibitive to own firearms, as they would include a "uninsured firearm user" policy rider, which would be >90% of the cost of the insurance.
All in all, an attempt at grabbing, any way you like it.

nwslopoke · Sep 1, 2019

All mayors need to take a look at their job description. How does this make anyone physically safer? Well, it doesn't. Just another buttinski. While I agree it is a wonderful idea to carry insurance, what would it accomplish as far as prevention? When the state or local government messes up, not only is no one charged they make the tax payer cough up the money to fix what was broken. So as with most of these great ideas I say government first and maybe the people will follow.