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In reply to the discussion: Liability insurance is not an answer [View all]Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)24. You can only be checked if you are stopped and you can only be stopped for an underlying reason.
Moreover, gun registration is a rarity and vehicle registration is not required if the vehicle is not driven on public roads.
However, if someone skirts all of those vehicular requirements and then injures someone with their unregistered, uninsured, uninspected car they will be fined under the law -- AND -- that, as I described above, will simply add to the sum they already cannot afford to pay and results in fines being paid before victims are compensated -- which is my central point.
But guns are SPECIAL so of course we had best let people go on allowing them to be used irresponsibly.
Liability insurance does not make people more responsible, it merely diffuses the cost of their actions to the pool. If your goal were actually to make a negligent gun owner feel the consequences of their irresponsibility more acutely you would be seeking the exact opposite and insist they and they alone bear the full cost of their actions rather than be allowed to spread the liability to other policy holders.
This is nothing more than a poorly cloaked poor tax and if your side could dispense with the strawmen and insults you would gain more traction but you won't and I'm satisfied with your on-going self-imposed frustration.
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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