The city of San Jose in deep Blue California has now officially voted to implement a first in the nation scheme to punish gun owners by forcing them to purchase costly insurance in order to own firearms.
As NBC News reports:
The California city of San Jose is set to become the first in the United States to enforce an ordinance requiring most gun owners to pay a fee and carry liability insurance.
In a statement on Tuesday night, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said the city’s council had voted in favor of both measures, which are aimed at reducing the risk of gun harm and relieving taxpayers of the financial cost of gun violence.
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Meanwhile, having liability insurance is meant to encourage gun owners in San Jose to take safety measures, including having gun safes, installing trigger locks and taking gun safety classes.
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The new measures, he said, will help build a “constitutionally compliant path to mitigate the unnecessary suffering from gun harm in our community.”
The new measure is likely to be challenged by pro-second amendment groups over the law’s questionable constitutionality.
Well, this is for the Mayor Sam Liccardo D-CA, in the City of San Jose, you can’t do this, why? Well, you can’t require a class of people to purchase something that not everybody will purchase, I mean, the criminals, robbers, felons, mentally ill, people who have restraining orders against them, you are just another democrat that somehow thinks an insurance policy will stop the killings, the people who are causing you the costs for the gun violence aren’t law abiding citizens. They are illegals, criminals with records, and just bad people, arrest them and put them in prison, problem solved!
Since it seems that Politicians are aiding the Criminals it would be a good idea to put them in Prison also!
Another way to help criminals but hurting gun ownership of law abiding citizens. And helping criminals is what they love to do.
Agree somewhat, but did you ever hear of Obamacare?
except that same argument was used against Obamacare, and look how that turned out.
This is NOT about reducing gun violence, but rather a move to reduce legal gun ownership among the “subjects” of this increasingly oppressive regime.
If you are armed, you are a Citizen. If you are not armed, you are a Subject. Guess which one the Socialists prefer you to be.
It is unconstitutional and does not need to be obeyed!
According to the FBI, across the United States in 2018, there were: 1,515 deaths by knives or cutting instruments, 443 people were killed with hammers/clubs/other blunt objects, 672 people were killed from fists/feet/’personal weapons’ compared to the 297 killed by (any) rifles. Did the ordinance require any fees or special liability insurance for those owning knives, cutting instruments, hammers, clubs, other blunt objects, fists, feet, or other ‘personal weapons’? It did not. Only guns. This has nothing to do with saving lives (last I checked insurance doesn’t prevent people from doing anything). It has everything to do with unconstitutional control and tyranny.
BINGO!
The criminally inclined think Cali, in the place to be. News of this is like a comedy.
Let’s go Liccardo!
Serves them right,,
they VOTED for theseK0mmies
Oh, yeah, let us all obey! In the first place, there’s that little phrase, “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED”, which maybe needs to be tattooed inside Sam Liccardo’s eyelids. By the way, not to be nit-picking, but how many armed police does Mayor Sam have protecting him? It’s beginning to look like somewhere in the near future, the populace of some municipality is gonna invoke the Second Amendment, and make life painful for the gun-grabbers, who define every thing they don;t like as terribly bad for (alleged) reasonable people. The thought rises that there may be a change of “from my cold dead hands” to “up your cold dead – – -“.
Requiring Insurance for the Free Exercise of a Constitutionally Protected Right?
See you in court.
Completely unconstitutional. Even the 9th Circus court of appeals should have no problem in slapping this down.
I am beginning to think that politicians are the most stupid people in the world. They need to stay in their lanes, not in the public’s house. They are there to keep the streets clean, ensure the trash is picked up, and the snow plowed. They are not there to be dictators in things they know nothing about. Even if this crazy left wing nut job gets him way, it will be challenged in court and common sense will prevail.
They’ll just run the gun trade underground! I wouldn’t but insurance! There’s lots of ways to get a gun!
Biden and ALL of his cronies needs to take a long walk off of a short pier!!!!!! They are little by little killing this country!!!!!
Of course, California where the brains go missing.
Can’t do that San Jose. You would think people in government would know that it is illegal to around about way, financially burden ,therefore infringing on a person’s right to bear arms. So they only want rich people to protect themselves. They need to remove those idiots from power. If they are that stupid what other crap are they doing that is harming people.
Good thing you are near the ocean, there will be plenty of sand for you to go pound, what an IDIOT!
VERMIN are EVERYWHERE!
Questionable constitutionality? There is no question about it–it is unsonstitutional. A right taxed is a right denied, and these laws are the equivalent of a tax.
WHY, IN THE NAME OF COMMON SENSE, WOULD THEY TAX LAW ABIDIND CITIZENS WHILE THE CROOKS GO FREE!
Another elected official who has fallen prey “democratosis”.
And to Californication.
I am sure that the criminals that carry and use firearms will get the insurance as well.
No! Just pass a law that says anyone committing a crime with the Use of a firearm will immediately get the death penalty to be carried out within six months of conviction.
No excuse for age or mental faculty.
Crime with firearms would drop quickly.
Then they would have to resort to baseball bats, Knives and machetes like in UK.
San Jose is run by traitors to our Constitution. Moreover, this bill will enable the government to know where the firearms are located. Finally, this bill has nothing to do with stopping gun violence for criminals get their weapons on the black market.
Little trouble below on gun death statistics. Over 25,000 killed and over 25,000 suicides.
So suggest San Jose only deal with hand guns. I am a well trained gun user thanks to the US Army and the NRA. I would still like to see the possession numbers brought to some reasonable level.
nice
Three weeks from now you will wish you had started today. Simply give it a shot on the accompanying site.
GOOD LUCK…
There is no one in California that can properly govern . It appears that no one has any ethics or intelligence within their borders!
You buy auto insurance for liabilities. It doesn’t stop people from being reckless, they have insurance to cover it. So gun insurance is to cover your accident.
ATTENTION CRIMINALS! San Jose is now open for “business”, and you won’t even need that costly insurance for your illegally acquired weapon.
Maybe start requiring this type insurance first among all the criminals to see how effective it might be. They are the ones who need it, not the law abiding gun owners.
These UnAmerican arses dare to attack the Constitutional Rights granted by GOD, and protected by the Constitution so San Jose I hope a Class action Law Suit is brought against your Arses! I hope the judge who hears it is a Constitutionalist not a Globalist .
Yes it is those damn people that legally own guns. Karma would be great for Sam Liccardo. You know, have good old Sam actually meet a criminal, with no rights to have a firearm and he does and then this man shows Sam the difference between a legal owner and the criminal. No I don’t even think that would help Sam know anything. Why, because I think Sam knows but he iss a follower, He maybe taking favors, weather money or what ever, to persecute legal owners of guns. He is just another waste of air trying his best to take the 2nd amendment away. Now personally I hate anyone who does this but especially these corrupt politicians that sell their country, the country they sworee an oath too which they use that oath as toilet paper all to enrich themselves. .. or these politicians are totally stupid, which I don’t believe these politicians are. They are however very corrupt and that is disgusting
LOL! And I am CERTAIN all the criminals (aka, Blacks, Illegals, and democrats) will be the first to rush out and get their “insurance”! Ignorant fa-kin Democrats!
Sounds to me like:
San Jose wants to be another crime center?
They should be issuing free carry permits instead.
san Josey, it would seem that the requirement would be an Infringement on the constitution and the guaranteed right To Keep and bare, but then again what do I care, my vehicles Refuse to cross the state line, I dont give a damn if they starve to death out there
To ensure complicityt thre Mayor need to provide reecoverage for Felons and Perps other wise there will have to be two civil systems to deal with liability issues of the Criminal versus the Law abising.
The Mayor must have dreamed this up while Smoking grass.