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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The bottom line is that they're never going to ban guns. So whats the solution. How about a mind set change.
How about requiring the purchase of fire arm insurance. If you lose your gun, you keep paying into the insurance until its found, but if someone uses your gun to hurt others, blammo your insurance makes you responsible.
If you shoot someone, you'd better be up to date on your insurance or your going to jail for longer. If your gun isn't secured properly and a kid hurts themself, at least their insurance to help with health care and funeral costs.
There's an estimated 310 million guns in 2015. At the same time the economic impact of fatal and non fatal gun violence is $310 billion dollars. So lets say that if you want to buy a gun no matter what the gun, its $1000.00 a year for insurance. First of all, economically it would make people think twice about buying guns. Second of all, It would match the annual economic impact of fatal and non fatal gun violence.
Also if you hurt someone with your fire arm you would have to pay a $1000.00 deductible by law.
On top of it, you really want gun companies suddenly being on side with proper background checks, keeping guns out of the hands of kids and the mentally ill and forcing things like proper storage. Make them under write the insurance fund for the first year.
If we can't get rid of guns, lets make people really financially responsible for them.
Oh officer its tragic that someone stole my gun and used it in a violent crime.
Get our your up to date insurance papers.
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Not even Canada would pass legislation that makes someone liable for the criminal actions of a third party. What you are proposing is basically saying that if my house is broken into and my gun is stolen, I am now on the hook for whatever the criminal who victimized me does with it.
No one is ever going to be on board with making people financially liable for the actions of others. Especially when those actions already have criminal consequences.