[BREITBART] On May 29, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced legislation requiring all would-be gun owners to purchase liability insurance before being allowed to purchase a firearm.
If caught without liability insurance, gun owners would face a fine of "$10,000."
According to The Hill, Maloney released a statement saying, "We require insurance to own a car, but no such requirement exists for guns. The results are clear: car fatalities have declined by 25 percent in the last decade, but gun fatalities continue to rise."
We could require politicians to have insurance in case they say something schtoopid but who would write the policy?
Maloney then went on to reveal her belief that "an insurance requirement would allow the free market to encourage cautious behavior and help save lives." In other words, requiring insurance would play into Democrats's hands by forcing gun owners to adopt practices like locking up their guns or even rendering them inoperable when away from home for a lower insurance rate.
No doubt the Feds would subsidize the insurance requirement for inner-city gang-bangers, all in the name of 'equality'...
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Washington Times, same BS story. FBI crime stats sez gun crime is actually in decline. Maloney provides no clue as to how gang-bangers will be insured. Perhaps Obamacare will provide a gun owner - ghetto subsidy.
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We require insurance to own a car, but no such requirement exists for guns.
There’s no insurance requirement to neither purchase nor own a car. Those are State requirements (Not Federal) for operation of a vehicle on public roadways. In fact, one doesn’t even need a drivers license. Just ask Miss Daisy.
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We require insurance to own a car, but no such requirement exists for guns.
When one engages in risky activities -- scuba diving and skiing that I know of from personal experience -- one's life and health insurance costs go up. Is it the same for gun owners?
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So, if a gangbanger shoots me with an illegal gun, at least his insurance will cover my medical costs, right? Right?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
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So, the insurance rages will probably looks something like this:
Owning a gun: $10/year
Owning a gun and bullets: 1000year
Owning a gun and bullets that are not locked in a time locked safe that only the police can open: 10000/year
Being a veteran or Tea Partier who owns a gun that is not locked up permanently: 100000/year
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
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Is it the same for gun owners?
If it's nopt (and NRA insurance rates suggest it is not) then the conclusion would seem to be that gun ownership, per se, is not a particularly dangerous actuarial category.
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at least his insurance will cover my medical costs, right? Right?
Yes, Rambler, in a way. Like the uninsured motorist coverage you have to buy to cover damages caused by those who somehow neglect to obey the law to buy insurance.
[The Right Scoop] Martin O'Malley is polling at about 1% to Hillary Clinton's 60%, which is why he's probably gonna be throwing a lot of rhetorical grenades like this idiotic approval of the Baltimore riots during his announcement speech. De-civilization and expulsion of white-privilege by any means necessary.
What's even more ironic is that many on the liberal left actually blame Martin O'Malley himself for imposing the policing standards that led to the riots! So rather than defend against these charges, I guess the moron is gonna say that rioting and burning down businesses is good for America? Good luck with that, idiot. Lipstick on a pig to an entirely new level.
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Evidently this is what he was working towards as Governor. Instructive.
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Well, if you "think" about it, the money that goes into reconstruction adds to the city's local domestic product, right? So that's sort of positive.
Of course, the lost wages commerce from the closed stores don't count.
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[BALTIMORESUN] Martin O'Malley ...former Democratic governor of Maryland and aspiring presidential candidate, known locally as The One-Man Economic Wrecking Crew. O'Malley was elected to his second term driven by union support and near-Stalinesque vote margins in Baltimore city (82%) and Prince George's County (88%)... , the former Maryland governor who ushered in an era of tech-savvy management and a new brand of progressive politics during more than two decades in public office, announced his long-expected campaign for president on Saturday.
With Baltimore's skyline as his backdrop, the 52-year-old Democrat and former mayor framed next year's election in dire terms, suggesting his administration would serve as a bulwark against GOP efforts to cut the federal government and social programs.
"My decision is made," O'Malley told a crowd of several hundred at Federal Hill Park. "Today, to you -- and to all who can hear my voice -- I declare that I am a candidate for President of the United States."
O'Malley, who got his start in politics on Gary Hart's 1984 presidential campaign, was scheduled to leave Maryland on Saturday for a two-day swing through Iowa and New Hampshire this weekend. O'Malley phoned Clinton ahead of his announcement to personally inform her of his plans, according to a report in Time.
During O'Malley's tenure Maryland approved gay marriage, a minimum wage increase, tougher gun laws, a repeal of the death penalty and several laws to help immigrants who are in the country illegally. His administration guided the state through the Great Recession, which hit Maryland with less force than the rest of the nation.
But O'Malley may be best known as the young, brash, guitar playing councilman improbably elected to lead a majority African American city beset by poverty, abandonment and violent crime. He embraced a new way of thinking about management — relying on data to measure the time it took to fill potholes and fix streetlights — and a tough policing strategy that remains controversial today.
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…Just in case Hill gets her utter really caught up in the wringer.
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...After his son's untimely passing, it's unlikely at best now that extreme-dark-horse Biden will have much taste for a campaign.
(FWIW, I've always thought that the VP was the anti-Hilary forces' ace in the hole - Hilary starts to self-destruct before/during the primaries, nobody else has the name recognition or record, and Biden gets drafted. He may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he's likeable with few outright negatives....or at least a lot LESS than Mrs. Secretary Senator Bill.)
Mike
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Mike, I've been figuring JFK or the Goracle for that role.
They're both old, rich, white dudes so they fit with the Dem demographic.
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^^
then you never saw his anti - Robert Bork's SCOTUS nomination rant. He was a despicable asshole. The best I can say is he seemed like a loving Father
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Bernie Sanders is a nutball. He favors a 90% tax rate, can't understand why we have a choice of 23 different kinds of deodorant or sneakers, once said he would like to bring back prohibition, and favors laws preventing US companies from moving overseas when his 90% tax rate hits.
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Bernie may be a socialist nut case but at least he's honest about it. Biden is a socialist nut case but he lacks the decency to be honest about it. Let's just hope neither one of them ever gets to the White House.
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[Bus Insider] It's not every day that you hear President Barack Obama explain away rank bigotry. But in a recent interview, he did just that.
"The fact that you are anti-Semitic," Obama said of the Islamic Republic of Iran, "doesn't preclude you from being rational." A mindlessly flawed conclusion, albeit revealing, only our Champ could proffer. Joseph Goebbels winks and nods approvingly. Most subsequent commentary focused on whether the president actually understood anti-Semitism -- by definition, a marker of unreason. But Obama's comment also reveals the depth of his determination to partner with Iran. It also reveals the "depth" of his 20 year Jeremiah Wright indoctrination.
Obama's comment caps a series of revealing statements and policies that put the lie to the White House claim that its Iran policy is designed to empower the moderates in Tehran. Ahg, the infamous moderates of Islam. Where art thou ?
Let's begin in Iraq, where the administration has dropped all pretense when it comes to partnering with the Shiite militias that are effectively under the control of Iran. Just a month ago, during the operation to take the town of Tikrit, the administration was still seeking to maintain a public veneer, however thin, of avoiding coordination with the militias, declaring instead that it would work only with the Iraqi Security Forces.
But now, following the fall of Ramadi, the administration has formally announced that it is willing to work with the militias in the campaign to retake the city. "The militias have a part to play in this," a Pentagon spokesman told reporters last week. Picking political winners and losers. 'Nation building' redux at 11:00. Don't change your channel.
The White House's approach to Iraq mirrors its policy in Lebanon. This is not to say that the administration is cooperating directly with Hezbollah. But it is doing so indirectly -- by hiding behind the cover of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). The US has shared intelligence through LAF channels, knowing full well that the armed forces work closely with the group.
Persistent reports from Lebanon suggest that the US is sharing real-time, operational intelligence with the LAF on the movement of Syrian fighters in the Arsal area. The US is aware of the high likelihood that such intelligence would be passed on to Hezbollah, to support its military campaign in eastern Lebanon and the Qalamoun hills. Information on troop movements and staging areas IVO Arsal appears to be vital. ISIS activities and assembly areas IVO Ramadi.... not so much.
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I agree Hup. The ultimate punishment of the privileged; confiscation of all wealth via radical devaluation, complimented by a vast new cashless system using needs based identity cards. [48 million ration prototype cards already in beta testing]
No one owes anything. No one owns anything. Government is the provider.
h/t Instapundit
If I understand the history correctly, in the late 1990s, the President was impeached for lying about a sexual affair by a House of Representatives led by a man who was also then hiding a sexual affair, who was supposed to be replaced by another Congressman who stepped down when forced to reveal that he too was having a sexual affair, which led to the election of a new Speaker of the House who now has been indicted for lying about payments covering up his sexual contact with a boy.
He was impeached for LYING UNDER OATH. If Clintoon had come right out and said, "yeah, I got a BJ, have you seen my wife?" He would not have been impeached.
As for the rest, methinks Mr. Kerr, a "nationally recognized scholar of criminal procedure and computer crime law," is merely handing out sweets to those who relish such things.
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