A recent legislative proposal from Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) would require Americans to obtain liability insurance before exercising their 2nd Amendment rights.
Maloney claims her legislation, the Firearms Risk Protection Act, would make gun owners act more responsibly.
“We require insurance to own a car, but no such requirement exists for guns,” Maloney said in a statement. “The results are clear: car fatalities have declined by 25 percent in the last decade, but gun fatalities continue to rise.”
According to the lawmaker, the insurance would also help victims of gun violence.
“An insurance requirement would allow the free market to encourage cautious behavior and help save lives,” she said. “Adequate liability coverage would also ensure that the victims of gun violence are fairly compensated when crimes or accidents occur.”
Second Amendment advocates have decried the proposal as a scheme to help insurance companies make money and make gun ownership more difficult without actually doing anything to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.
“If it were constitutional, which it is not, to require gun owners to buy liability insurance before they can own a gun, then politicians who support this kind of legislation should be required to buy liability insurance before they open their mouths and/or push legislation,” Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, told WND. “If any in the media support this, then they should also be asked to buy liability insurance.”
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