California is at it again pushing bills that infringe upon the rights of their citizens. This time they are attacking lawful gun owners. San Jose is proposing a new law that would make it so gun owners have to pay liability insurance on their guns to lessen the burden on the state whenever there is gun violence. CNN’s “New Day” Hosts John Avlon and Laura Jarrett raved about the idea.
AVLON: San Jose, California, passed a new gun law that’s the first of its kind in the nation. Now get this, the law requires gun owners to have liability insurance. Pay an annual fee to help curb the cost of gun violence. The law was proposed in the wake of the shooting at the valley transportation authority that left nine people dead back in May, joining us now to analyze this is CNN’s “Early start” anchor Laura Jarrett. Laura, this is a really interesting, innovative policy suggestion by the San Jose mayor, how would it work?
JARRETT: So super interesting. Novel, first of its kind as you said and Of course, as you might imagine, very controversial already. Right, so the best way to think about this, as you and I were discussing in a break. Think about car insurance. Anyone can wrap their heads around that, right? The idea is if you own a car. You have to have insurance. You pool the risk, hopefully, you don’t have as many accidents that way and the same might be true here, if this actually goes through. This is just a draft proposal that they’re considering, but if it goes through, it’s not only about the devastation to the families, obviously, you know, loved ones are lost, people feel that. It’s also super expensive for cities that are really impacted by this, right? Check out one data point here, I think if we have it in just the six years from 2013 to 2019, one estimate shows there’s over 200 incidents of gun violence in San Jose. Guess how much that costs taxpayers, John? An estimated $442. This would be huge savings.
AVLON: Million. That’s unbelievable the cost of each shooting.
JARRETT: Yes. Exactly. This would be a huge savings if it goes through. But obviously, the devil is going to be in the details, right.
AVLON: It always is, and the San Jose mayor isn’t naive about the fact that this is going to get legal challenges from day one. But It’s interesting, he confronted that head-on. I want to read folks what he said. He said look ‘skeptics will say that criminals won’t comply. They’re right. Yet that’s an important feature of these proposals, not a defect. These ordinances create a legal mandate that provides police with a lawful means for seizing guns from non-law abiding dangerous people.’ So he’s saying basically, bring it on.
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This infringes upon the rights of lawful gun owners. We all have the right to bear arms, not the right to bear arms unless we can’t pay insurance premiums. It sounds like this proposal is just a discreet way for Dems to confiscate our guns or prevent people from buying them in the first place.
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