Liability insurance is not an answer

[DonP]

14. Of course that's not the point of gun insurance anyway

Let's just cut through the crap on this.

Since direct gun control continues to fail dismally, they are struggling and flailing to find ways to make an end run and deter anyone they can from buying a gun. If poor people can't afford the insurance, too damn bad, their "moral betters" know they shouldn't really have a gun anyway. Do anything you can to try and shrink the market and start by pretending that there really are no new gun owners and those old white guys are all dying off.

If cities can get away with ridiculously high taxes on guns and ammo, fine. In their minds, the more people they can keep away from guns the better. (Ignore all those tacky, tacky people driving to the suburbs and driving back with a DPMS box in the back of the SUV and skipping not only the excise taxes but all the other sales taxes too.)

The insurance red herring has no more to do with paying for medical expenses and accidents than the ammo taxes are going to pay for "the costs of violence".

But it makes the gun control fans sound "reasonable" and feel "morally superior" and that's terribly important to gun control people.

As usual, the fact that an insurance mandate would instantly swell the ranks and coffers of the NRA by millions of new dues paying members, that would join for the discounted insurance, escapes their "steely eyed" long term perceptions.

Just like every time they discuss/demand a new AWB Bushmaster, DPMS and Smith & Wesson put on a third shift.