San Jose Mayor Pens Op-Ed Defending Insurance For Gun Owners

By Tom Knighton

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo thinks you should be required to buy liability insurance for your firearms.

This was the mayor’s response to the Gilroy shooting. A shooting where a maniac smuggled a firearm into a gun-free zone despite all the laws prohibiting him from doing so gets met with still more restrictions being proposed. We’re used to that, of course, but what we’re not used to is someone saying we should have to have liability insurance for our guns.

In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Liccardo writes why he thinks we should be required to have insurance.

Mayors who experience such suffering in their communities after senseless gun violence do not have the luxury of waiting for Congress to act, as lawmakers offer their “thoughts and prayers.” Cities demand problem-solving over posturing. So this month, I proposed an oft-considered but as-yet-never-implemented idea: require every gun owner in the 10th-largest city in the United States to buy liability insurance.

Every U.S. state mandates that automobile drivers buy liability insurance; we should require no less of gun owners. Cars and guns have exacted a similarly grim human toll, each causing about 40,000 deaths in 2017. If San Jose’s gun …Read the Rest

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