"Handguns...exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing....

[Sancho]

205. That probably depends on your local state...

but you are required to have insurance to use the car, or get a mortgage, or keep a boat in the marina (at least in Florida). You can't register a car or boat here, or keep the boat at the dock of most places without proof of insurance. You can't get a tag or boat registration number without proof of insurance.

I believe that you usually have to provide proof of insurance in order to buy a car at most dealers. Otherwise, you'd have to have the car towed to your house so you could look at it sitting there.

I'm suggesting that gun owners should be required to carry insurance in order to possess or use a firearm. I would pay for it just like other forms of liability insurance. The insurance companies would likely have requirements and deny coverage if I had been diagnosed as mentally ill or had a criminal record. This is just like insurance companies denying me insurance if I had a bad driving record or history of accidence. At the least, by premiums would be much higher.

This would be yet another way to get control of all the guns ending up in the wrong hands, but allowing regular folks to have their protection or hunting fun.