President Biden hit the grand slam tonight in the bottom of the 9th, but I’ll deal with that in the next article. But Biden made some statements tonight, as well as proposals, one if which set my mind burning.
To start with, in his speech, Biden laid responsibility for mass gun slaughter right where it belongs, with lawful gun owners. He pointed out that in at least two previous mass school shootings, teenage psychopaths were able to just walk into a closet, or down to the basement, load up with an AR-15 and a shitload of clips, drive to a school, and create an instant mass atrocity. This is irresponsible gun ownership!
Biden wants to spotlight individual responsibility. If you want to own enough weapons of war and ammunition to allow you and your softball team to invade Syria if you can work out the travel plans, that’s fine. But keep them locked in a basement with a fucking key only you have access too. Trigger locks would be a nice touch. If an ass clown wants to spring for an AR-15 or ten, or twenty, then he can afford to spring for a reputable gun cabinet.
And if you don’t Then that’s on you, and nobody else. If you personally choose to leave your weapons of mass destruction just laying around the house, and one of your monkey spawn cops one to go and create a mass tragedy, then you should have the privilege of paying for your ignorance to the grieving families.
Which started me thinking. There are too many states to count out there that are not only making it easier to purchase and own a weapon, they’re making it easier to tote around town like your wallet or car keys. States have open carry laws, and more keep passing concealed carry laws. And here’s where my whiskers started twitching. You’re not going to stop these mental midgets from doing this shit, so let’s at least force them to take basic safety protocols.
Look, if you own a boat, and you cruise out onto the lake and run over a couple of kids while you’re texting on your cell phone. you are personally liable! And as a result, most boat owners have boating insurance!
You all know that I’m legally blind with glaucoma. But that won’t stop me from buying a car, going onto the lot and planking down the long green to take ownership. But you know what? I’ll never get the keys and drive off of the lot. Why? Because I can’t provide proof of insurance! All I can do is to sign the title over to Teri, who can obtain insurance.
Forget about regulating guns. Control them instead. Pass a law that mandates that anyone who owns a gun is required to have gun insurance on their weapons. Each firearm that the owner possesses must be registered with the insurance company, and his rates will be based on risk. The insurance companies will love it, especially as problematic as health insurance is getting. And it would have the residual effect of dampening the fervor for more and more gun ownership from a smaller group of people, since they would be required to register their new weapons with the insurance company, and then they’ll pay a premium to the insurance company for covering those guns.
Get my point? Don’t waste your time trying to banish guns that you know the NRA backed GOP will never do. Instead, do what the government does best, and regulate the shit out of them! Let these inbred crackers have all the weapons of mass destruction they want, but if they’re used for mass slaughter, at least the families will have somewhere to go to get some form of compensation for their loss. We already have health insurance, medical insurance, life insurance, boat insurance, homeowner insurance, and auto insurance. Why not mandatory gun insurance? Let the GOP try and explain to the insurance companies why they don’t want them to get billions in profits.
You can’t even get the free-dumb a$$holes to accept health insurance, so getting weapon insurance is next to impossible
You know when I was a child my father taught me gun safety and how to use firearms safely. The picture with this article is one of the stupidest examples of what gun ownership means in this country. This is one of those pictures where when responsible gun owners (and we are out there) say, collectively, I hope that little girl “accidentally” took out the parent who thought putting two handguns in her hands was not only a good idea but also photo-worthy.
that little girl is on YouTube and is trained by her father in responsible gunhandling
If that’s your idea of teaching safe, responsible gun handling YOU are the kind of dipshit that’s responsible for the epidemic of gun violence AND accidents. The whole gun in each hand two handed shooting bullshit you see in movies is just that. Movie bullshit. But for adults with lots of experience few are capable of shooting with both hands accurately and yes, safety is a concern. A kid that age? Not only no but FUCK no! I’m in my sixties and my dad or anyone else’s in my small midwestern town wouldn’t have dreamed of having us shoot handguns at that age, much less have one in each hand! And if even a bit older had we been caught behind someone’s house on the edge of town or in the country I shudder to think of the consequences! Oh, and IF any parent had been seen “teaching” their kid that type of thing there would be hell to pay for the parent(s) up to and including reporting them to get those kids out of that home.
Responsible? Again I say not only no but FUCK NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Oh, and when I was on active duty even though I always qualified expert with the .45 had I or anyone else pulled that shit at the range the beatings from the range safety officers would be the least of my/our concerns.)
But I’d she potty trained? ?
If your child kills people with your gun which you did not lock in a gun safe,,you personally are liable. It must be a combination locked safe. Adam Lanza’s mother kept her weapons in a trunk.with a regular lock. Her son, whom.she knew was mentally ill, broke into it,,murdered her and then went on to massacre children and teachers at Sandy Hook.
Gun insurance is a good idea,but gun safes plus insurance plus making the actual gun owner and/or his parents if under 21 are even better.
The gun crazies are always saying “Guns don’t kill people – PEOPLE kill people” – and youe approach is 100% in compliance with that. If your approach isn;t what they want, maybe they need to admit that guns DO kill people.