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Gun Control & RKBA

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virginia mountainman

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Sat May 30, 2015, 01:58 PM May 2015

Another silly gun bill has been introduced.. [View all]

Caroline Mahony of NY, has introduced a bill REQUIRING firearm owners to carry liability insurance or face a $10,000 federal fine...

https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2015/5/21/extensions-of-remarks-section/article/E775-2

The Firearm Risk Protection Act would harness the power of insurance
markets to allow professional actuaries to determine the risk presented
by each gun and gun owner. Just as with car insurance, higher-risk
owners of firearms would face higher premiums, while responsible owners
could qualify for reduced rates.


Just the thing to keep the poor especially the poor inner city minorities disarmed. What she is saying in a nutshell says that since we required to have auto insurance (BTW we don't) that the same thing should apply to our civil liberties ...Yea that will pass muster...

This is a classic example of legislation that makes all Democrats look bad. It will end up on MSM, and be touted as "common sense" and we all will be LOL'ed at again as being very much out of touch in most of the nation.

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Another silly gun bill has been introduced.. [View all] virginia mountainman May 2015 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author GGJohn May 2015 #1
Might just reduce the amount of guns and the amount of deaths katmondoo May 2015 #2
How? GGJohn May 2015 #3
Facts do not seem to matter Duckhunter935 May 2015 #6
Can you back that up? Duckhunter935 May 2015 #5
Gun deaths are getting ready to surpass auto deaths safeinOhio May 2015 #12
Cars are getting safer Duckhunter935 May 2015 #14
Don't they also count safeinOhio May 2015 #20
Probably not discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2015 #21
I doubt it Duckhunter935 May 2015 #22
Surpass implies that gun deaths rose to pass auto deaths. gejohnston May 2015 #23
Well lets see, we can do something about what you said Duckhunter935 May 2015 #24
Its that high capacity paracord... beevul May 2015 #25
Hmm, that will change the NRA narrative a bit. louis-t May 2015 #26
actually, they are gejohnston May 2015 #28
Facts are so hard for some to take. Duckhunter935 May 2015 #29
Typical gun nut. Spin, spin, spin.... louis-t May 2015 #30
Typical gun controller. Spin, spin, spin.... GGJohn May 2015 #31
Seems to happen a lot Duckhunter935 May 2015 #33
Need to check the manual. beevul May 2015 #35
Now, now Duckhunter935 May 2015 #32
I was born in 1960 gejohnston May 2015 #34
Best cure for "Wild West" fears is to quit watching the nightly news.... Eleanors38 May 2015 #8
Just a small correction discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2015 #27
100 mill was my best guess in the last 20 yrs. Eleanors38 Jun 2015 #37
cool discntnt_irny_srcsm Jun 2015 #38
So your fine with having insurance.. virginia mountainman May 2015 #9
no, it will reduce the number of legal guns gejohnston May 2015 #17
It would make the NRA a fortune hack89 May 2015 #36
Politicians don't always get it right rock May 2015 #4
Same problem as auto insurance HassleCat May 2015 #7
Huh? rickford66 May 2015 #10
Same vs. justified HassleCat May 2015 #11
Well, it will help the NRA Duckhunter935 May 2015 #13
While I have no issue in principle sarisataka May 2015 #15
Maybe the criminal element will... discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2015 #16
Yep, like how you put that Duckhunter935 May 2015 #19
Wonder what other rights she'd like us to pay for??? ileus May 2015 #18
Mahony doesn't understand kudzu22 Jun 2015 #39
It's not about "insurance", it's just another phony barrier for poor people to climb over DonP Jun 2015 #40
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