Joe Doakes, of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n
Gun control proposals never die, they just rest a while. Mandatory insurance has staggered back to life. <\/p>\n
The notion is that guns cause injuries which require medical attention which the public must pay for; therefore, gun owners should have insurance policies to pay the cost of treating those injuries. It\u2019s like car insurance, see?<\/p>\n
Of course, unlike car insurance, the real hope is that such insurance would be so expensive, nobody would buy guns and if nobody has a gun, gun violence ends. <\/p>\n
Two things:<\/p>\n
First, unlike driving, gun ownership is a Fundamental Right protected by the Constitution. We don\u2019t require journalists to buy insurance in case an inaccurate, misleading article ruins someone\u2019s life. On the contrary, under the New York Times v. Sullivan standard, the more likely the harm, the harder we make it for victims to recover. Remedies for problems caused by privileges don\u2019t apply to problems caused by rights.<\/p>\n
Second, I am forced to buy uninsured motorist coverage to subsidize law-breakers who drive without insurance. I am forced to buy Obama-care compliant health insurance to subsidize scoff-laws who lack health insurance. Neither of those schemes eliminated the uninsured, they simply shifted the cost to me. Similarly, forcing gun purchasers to subsidize criminals using guns to commit violence won\u2019t eliminate gun violence. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s wrong and it won\u2019t work. So naturally, Democrats are all over it.<\/p>\n
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Joe Doakes<\/p>\n
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Voluntary gun insurance, driven by the free market, makes sense.<\/p>\n
Mandatory gun insirance is nothing but back door gun control.<\/p>\n
The left must be counting on the idea that Second Amendment advocates turn over every couple of years, so all of these ideas sound new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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