I hear a lot from the pro-gun side of politics about their rights. I hear a lot less from them about the rights of others to be free from their intrusion on them with firearms, the ways in which those firearms and how they are used or can be used makes all of us less safe. I get a lot of feedback about any measure that would make firearms more expensive for their owners, like insurance and mandatory safe storage such as gun safes that would make firearms more difficult to steal, or to be misused by kids, ranging from small children playing with them to older kids taking them to school to shoot other students.
It ignores the 3+ murder suicides that takes place in this nation every week - EVERY WEEK - where emotionally distraught or depressed to the point of being judgmentally impaired people not only kill themselves, but kill other people, people who don't want to die, often children or other family members.
There is inadequate valuing of the rights of other people to be safe, to be FREE, of intrusion on our rights by the gun owners. They resist, many of them, all efforts to prevent guns from falling into the hands of prohibited people - like drug users (which should include alcohol abusers who binge drink and/or drive impaired), criminals, minors, illegal immigrants, and possibly the most serious of all, the dangerously mentally ill.
Too often we have a new class that perhaps should be included with those, although they could properly be classified as a subset of criminals, the political insurrectionist. Insurrection is illegal, it is treason.
There is a concentration of white supremacist militias in the northwest, where at least some groups had contemplated for a time attempting to annex the northwestern states like Montana, Idaho, Washington, up to five states, depending on what nut group was making grandiose plans, for their own separate and exclusively white nation. This could easily be one of the paramilitary race-based pseudo-Christian militias of that region. Yet these pro-gun fans never seem to notice that their numbers are costing all of us a lot of money with these incidents, on top of the loss of life or risk of loss of life. It is reasonable to do more, to require more, of gun owners to reduce and control these costs; that includes reducing risks by limiting assault-style weapons, and large capacity magazines that allow for this rate and quantity of fire on law enforcement and on victims.
This is fiscal responsibility. This is fiscally conservatively sound. This is placing the costs and expenses of firearms in our country on the gun owners.
We aren't having to invest in armored vehicles for law abiding non-gun owners.
From NBC.com and wire services by way of MSNBC.com:
It ignores the 3+ murder suicides that takes place in this nation every week - EVERY WEEK - where emotionally distraught or depressed to the point of being judgmentally impaired people not only kill themselves, but kill other people, people who don't want to die, often children or other family members.
There is inadequate valuing of the rights of other people to be safe, to be FREE, of intrusion on our rights by the gun owners. They resist, many of them, all efforts to prevent guns from falling into the hands of prohibited people - like drug users (which should include alcohol abusers who binge drink and/or drive impaired), criminals, minors, illegal immigrants, and possibly the most serious of all, the dangerously mentally ill.
Too often we have a new class that perhaps should be included with those, although they could properly be classified as a subset of criminals, the political insurrectionist. Insurrection is illegal, it is treason.
There is a concentration of white supremacist militias in the northwest, where at least some groups had contemplated for a time attempting to annex the northwestern states like Montana, Idaho, Washington, up to five states, depending on what nut group was making grandiose plans, for their own separate and exclusively white nation. This could easily be one of the paramilitary race-based pseudo-Christian militias of that region. Yet these pro-gun fans never seem to notice that their numbers are costing all of us a lot of money with these incidents, on top of the loss of life or risk of loss of life. It is reasonable to do more, to require more, of gun owners to reduce and control these costs; that includes reducing risks by limiting assault-style weapons, and large capacity magazines that allow for this rate and quantity of fire on law enforcement and on victims.
This is fiscal responsibility. This is fiscally conservatively sound. This is placing the costs and expenses of firearms in our country on the gun owners.
We aren't having to invest in armored vehicles for law abiding non-gun owners.
From NBC.com and wire services by way of MSNBC.com:
By NBC News staff and wire reports UPDATED at 3:55 a.m. ET: Authorities searched for a possible second gunman early Monday after at least one shooter wounded one man, then opened fire on a SWAT team and police officers before being found dead during a manhunt in woods north of Seattle. The officers were fired upon Sunday afternoon as they responded to reports of a shooting in a driveway Arlington, Wash. They found a man with a non-life threatening injury. According to The Seattle Times, spokesman Steve Dittoe of Snohomish County Sheriff’s office said SWAT officers arrived within 10 minutes of the shooting and "our armored vehicle was hit several times" by rounds of gunfire. Linda Purtteman, who lives near the home in Arlington said a neighbor told her that people in the area were urged to stay indoors. She told the Times that she heard gunshots, but was unfazed by them. "I have a few neighbors who go shooting a lot out here, so I didn't think anything of it," she said. "We were told to stay away from the windows, but the whole front of my house is a window," Purtteman told the newspaper. Precautionary search for possible second suspect A man later was found dead and a weapon was recovered, Snohomish County Sheriff's spokeswoman Shari Ireton said late Sunday. But nearby residents were told to leave their homes as a precaution as authorities searched for a possible second suspect, Ireton said. Vehicles were found with bullet holes on more than one side, the Times reported. "At this point, we're still assuming there's a second suspect. We are combing through property and buildings just to double-check before we start letting people back to their houses," Ireton told The Associated Press. About 70 people at a Sons of Norway camp at nearby Riley Lake were in lockdown late Sunday, according to King 5, NBC News’ Seattle affiliate. Read KING 5's reporting on the incident "We all just banded together and made sure that we let everybody know what was going on. and told everybody to get out of the pool and the lake and not be out in the open field and everybody's just been kind of waiting to hear updates," camper Berit Kuchs told King 5. There were no reports of other injuries. Arlington is about 50 miles north of Seattle. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
You mentioned insurance - that's an intriguing idea. How would you envision it working?
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