Petitions on WE the PEOPLE White House website about Guns and Insurance
There are currently 2 petitions which are being offered and which call for requiring gun insurance. They are not detailed solutions and have not gained much support. They are: Sponsor legislation...
View ArticleUseful Post by Ben Achtenberg on treating Guns like Cars for Insurance.
Ben Achtenberg has an article in the Caring for Survivors of Torture blog titled “We Already Have a Way to Cut Gun Deaths.” It makes the case for treating gun ownership with the same standards of...
View ArticleComments flood Eugene Robinson Washington Post Opinion
Eugene Robinson has an article “Stop the gun madness” in the Washington Post opinion section. It calls for regulation but does not mention regulation. It’s of interest to this blog because of the...
View ArticleArticle on this blog crossposted to Daily Kos
I posted the last article “How to Seriously Approach Gun Insurance That Protects Everyone” on this blog to Daily Kos. I’ve been getting quite a few comments. Half or so are positive and the rest are...
View ArticleGun Research Limits are an Affront to Me and I Take It Personally
I’ve been writing for a short while about my ideas on how to deal with guns and the deaths and injuries they cause through insurance. I am thinking about how we could have a solution that would...
View ArticleCosts put on gun owners are not Poll Taxes
When a proposal for requiring insurance for guns is put into a blog discussion, many of the strong pro-gun advocates reacting to the post base their objection on rights as they assume they have them...
View ArticleShould Gun Insurance Cover Suicide?
If a good solid system of insurance that pays everyone injured by guns is adapted, an obvious question will be “should it cover suicide.” This is likely to be controversial because many people think...
View Article$100K in Jewelry Stolen From Car
Yahoo’s OMG reports that an actress who left the jewelry in her car had it stolen while she was at a friend’s Hollywood apartment. So what’s this got to do with gun insurance? Well, hundreds of...
View ArticleNew Analysis on Guns, Insurance and the Second Amendment by Lund and Gilles.
A paper “Mandatory Liability Insurance for Firearm Owners: Design Choices and Second Amendment Limits” has been published by Nelson Lund of the George Mason U. School of Law and by Stephen G. Gilles of...
View ArticlePreventingNewtown Blog Points Out Gun Insurance Benefits
A new post by Julia Hartman on the PreventingNewtown blog titled “A Case for Gun Liability Insurance” gives a thoughtful and interesting discussion of the benefits of requiring insurance to protect...
View ArticleHearing Held on DC Gun Insurance Bill
On Thursday May 16, 2013 the District of Columbia held a hearing on the B20-170, Firearm Insurance Amendment Act of 2013 their Gun Insurance Bill. The first panel consisted of Dan Gross, President of...
View ArticleOpposition to Mandatory Insurance in 1929
It’s becoming clear that the underlying reason for insurance industry opposition to requiring insurance for guns is the latest move in a very old battle to keep the government out of regulating...
View ArticleNYT OP/ED’s on Gun Manufacturer Responsibility—Insurance by Other Means
This is hot stuff!! A very heartening reminder that the drive to establish a responsible gun policy in our country is here to the finish. A pair of important OP/ED’s to hold gun manufacturers...
View ArticleJohn Wasik Calls for Gun Insurance Again.
In a new article published Sept. 20, 2013 on the Forbes website and titled “Five Reasons Why Gun Insurance Can Survive Political Indifference”, he advocated for insurance as the most effective and...
View ArticleRegistration of guns and confirmation of insurance
In order to have a system of insurance the covers the dangers of having guns in our society, it is necessary to have a way to be sure that insurance exists that covers each victimization. The simplest...
View ArticleThe Need for State Regulated Gun Insurance with a Federal Mandate.
The answer to the question of whether we need to mandate gun insurance at the federal or the state level is to have the mandate at the federal level and the regulation of the insurance at a state...
View ArticleEnacting a Concealed Carry Insurance Mandate
While it would be ideal to have a gun insurance adopted at a single time as one well designed national mandate, it’s likely that political reality will force it to come into being in stages. The...
View ArticleCCW Permit + Stand Your Ground = Insurance Need
Many states have adopted stand your ground laws that protect shooters in public spaces that accidently(with or without negligence) either unintended bystanders or innocent persons who are wrongly...
View ArticleQuestions and Answers on Mandating Gun Insurance.
Q: What is the purpose of mandating gun insurance? Required insurance for guns or gun owners should be designed to provide benefits for victims of gun accidents or violence. Insurers will...
View ArticleShould Gun Owner’s Insurance Pay Victims After Gun Theft?
The insurance model recommended by this blog is designed to have insurer retain responsibility for guns after they are stolen. That means that if a responsible gun owner has a burglary and a gun is...
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