it's for gun registration - how can we get everyone to register their guns since they don't want to and rightfully so as that is an infringement on people's inalienable second amendment rights - oh well let's go ahead and say everyone should get insurance for their guns and then guess what? gun registration and people are happy. idiots think they're so slick in congress, but it's up to the people to resist idiots trying to infringe on our liberties. and indeed we will have to resist because they're gonna keep pushing and pushing and pushing until we rise up and then they can expect to never hold office again and to be tried for their crimes against the country and taken out and hung as well they should be for their idiocy.

How will they verify gang members or want to be terrorist have the required insurance, again going after the law abiding who don't commit these atrocities. seems they want everyone to be a victim of gang abuses, or they would have done something in chicago, new your, D.C., etc......

Please tell me we won't have to wait another two years and spend millions of dollars on lawyers for the United States Supreme Court to tell us one more stupid liberal idea is UnConstitutional. Example: If I pull out a gun and shoot some one attempting to harm me, my family, or my property am I liable for the injuries that some one sustains? HELL NO!

What if you miss, and hit an innocent by mistake?

I think you should be liable for it.

I don't miss.

Said everyone who ever accidentally shot someone

I don't miss. Rooster Cogburn: I never shot nobody I didn't have to.

All ten of them.

Then the one that requitred me to pull and fire should be held liable as they are the cause of the injury/death

Wow, way to avoid personal responsibility-

NO... granddad merely stated the law as it stands.

I'm not the one attacking. Self-defense = no liability.

Maybe in your state; in TX, if I shoot someone in justified self-defense, the attacker is the only one who can be held civilly liable.

I don't miss. Wanna see pictures?

You are!

How does insurance take away or grant liability....if you hit someone with a missed shot today one is held accountable already how other then an attempt to infringe upon the 2nd will insurance change that fact....Yes I used the most hated four letter "F" word that liberals hate.

Well of course you do. Homeowners' liability insurance covers such accidents, mostly. Still no fine for defending yourself needed.

Really quite simple. The article states they would be fined $10,000. In the eyes of the Democrats, money is the solution to most any situation.

If you don't have a good argument, put money in the equation.

Don't have the insurance, you can go straight to jail. Gets the criminals off the streets fast.

This is why I like my guns like Obama likes his immigrants......undocumented.

No, criminals will still have their guns. This will only affect law abiding gun owners .... as all gun laws do. More job security for criminals.

Might want to reread. "Rep. Maloney’s The Firearm Risk Protection Act would subject gun owners
to a $10,000 fine if they ignored a mandate for liability insurance
before obtaining a weapon, The Hill reported Friday."

So amend it to put in mandatory jail time. They could also be held with a high bail awaiting trial.

We are NOT going to "Amend" the 2nd Amendment. The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." We are not going to add "providing that you show proof of insurance". Driving is a PRIVILEGE, not a RIGHT.

No one is talking about amending the Second amendment. My comment was about amending the proposed bill discussed in this article.

Which is an infringement of 2nd amendment rights

Hardly. All right have their limits. Just as you cannot yell "fire!" in a crowded theater, neither can you own a nuclear weapon

You most certainly can yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater, in fact if there is a fire, you are supposed to do so. If there is no fire you just have to accept the consequences, but that doesn't stop you from yelling. Nuclear weapons is a red herring, we are talking about the common weapons of the infantry soldier, not crew served weapons.

it is simply amazing the depth of raw stupidity and ignorance folk such as cobra show us on the 'net.

http://www.theatlantic.com/...

Hardly my butt. It is an infringement and you know it! But reading your other posts your obviously an anti gun liberal

What part of "Shall not be infringed" do you liberals not understand?

They haven't even gotten to the point of voting on it, should it get that far. Amendments, the way of the government.

Not when Harry was in charge of the Senate.

Yeah, because Harry rarely brought any bills to the floor for a vote.

I was referring to Harry not allowing any amendments to bills. He was the worst in history in that regard.

Lets amend the rights of all you long time economist for screwing up the economy we have today...How about an insurance that when a failing economy effects anyone you are held accountable....Poverty effects many more then guns so I blame you and demand you get insurance for my protection.

Congratulations, you win the Award for the Non-Sequitur of the Day.

And you the ridiculous.

Obviously, it would take a news form of liability insurance.

We both know that there is no chance of this bill passing, either as is or amended. I am merely trying to kick around the idea of whether this could be a possible way of cutting down on the number of gun crimes by young thugs, but virtually all responders here are more into knee jerk reactions to their gun rights.

The American gun lobby is the strongest lobby on the planet. There is no chance that the bill as is would pass, especially in this Congress.

How much would you like to bet?

Needless to say, I'll give you odds.

Obviously, if, by the end of this Congress in 2017, this bill has passed both houses of Congress as is, you win. If not, I do.

errr...if they are "criminals" then what are they doing freely roaming the streets?

Are you telling me that you aren't aware how many young thugs are given little or no jail time by lenient judges???