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Showing Original Post only (View all)Liability insurance is not an answer [View all]
http://www.ibamag.com/news/house-bill-to-require-gun-owners-to-carry-liability-insurance-22717.aspxCar insurance covers damage and injuries sustained from car ACCIDENTS. Car insurance works because most damages, deaths and injuries are accidental. Most firearm damages, deaths and injuries are deliberate. Even car insurance doesn't cover "DELIBERATES".
The Firearm Risk Protection Act, introduced by Representative Carolyn Maloney of New York, would impose a $10,000 fine if an owner is found not to have a current liability policy. Service members and law enforcement officers would be exempt from the requirement.
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According to George Mocsary of Southern Illinois University School of Law, the current model for liability insurance would neither deter gun violence nor provide adequate compensation for victims.
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Mocsary noted that under the current liability insurance model, nearly all intentional criminal actions are excluded from coverage.
Nearly 20% of gun violence victims are shot by criminals while committing a crime themselves, Mocsary said, while roughly 97% of deaths caused by firearms are the result of suicide or homicideneither of which fall under liability policies.
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According to George Mocsary of Southern Illinois University School of Law, the current model for liability insurance would neither deter gun violence nor provide adequate compensation for victims.
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Mocsary noted that under the current liability insurance model, nearly all intentional criminal actions are excluded from coverage.
Nearly 20% of gun violence victims are shot by criminals while committing a crime themselves, Mocsary said, while roughly 97% of deaths caused by firearms are the result of suicide or homicideneither of which fall under liability policies.
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Wouldn't medical insurance cover medical treatment of accidental injuries? n/t
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Jan 2016
#8
re: "Your car insurance requires you to get your car inspected and registered every year..."
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Jan 2016
#33
re: "Done arguing with people who deny facts that don't suit their ideology."
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Jan 2016
#35
What percentage of negligient discharge injuries involve a victim that would not be covered
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2016
#11
"a huge number of gun deaths and accidents result from well intentioned gun owners being careless"
Lizzie Poppet
Jan 2016
#27
The difference being that owning a firearm is a right, while driving or owning a vehicle isn't.
GGJohn
Jan 2016
#20
He meant your erroneous interpretation of the militia clause has been debunked.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2016
#28
I'm pretty sure it's only "Settled Law" or "Law of the Land" if they agree with it
DonP
Jan 2016
#57
You can only be checked if you are stopped and you can only be stopped for an underlying reason.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2016
#24
It's not difficult for me to question what I think before I say it.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Jan 2016
#54