In case you couldn’t guess, Senator Green thinks making people buy gun insurance is comparable to making people buy car insurance. Never mind that the right to drive an automobile is not guaranteed by the Constitution: to liberals like Green, guns are no more important than cars are and thus eligible for excessive government oversight.
“‘They have to pay insurance so that if they’re in a collision and they hurt someone else who’s an innocent bystander, it’s covered. Just like with guns, if a gun falls into the wrong hands or if there’s an accident, just an accident, it makes a lot of sense to me that we have that extra level of responsibility,’ Green said.
Bill Richter, secretary of the Hawaii Rifle Association, said, ‘Any time you mandate something on a core constitutional, fundamental right, it has the effect of chilling that right and the exercise thereof, so we really don’t think it’s a good idea.’
Richter and insurance experts said homeowners and renters insurance would already cover accidents involving someone’s firearms, even if gun incidents happen outside their home. Purposeful criminal activity would not be covered by liability insurance of any kind, Richter said.
Green’s proposal would also require gun owners to renew their registrations every five years. Right now, that gun registration is good for life without taking into consideration changing medical or mental conditions of gun owners.
‘Imagine if someone has become blind over the years, should they have a gun? Imagine if someone’s had psychiatric illness from drug addiction,’ Green said.”
Source: Hawaii News Now
Cause criminals will be more than willing to maintain insurance. More politicians bought off by corporations.