03-29-2016, 02:32 PM
I think this is another prime example of why guns should be so hard to get that nobody bothers. And if you have them and do anything illegal with them it should be an automatic life sentence without parole, enough so that your common low life criminal gives them up because the risk of possessing one is too high. Either that or they should be outright banned. If there was no gun in his home that boy would still be alive today.
Baring that, and yes I recognize that the gun lobby is too strong to believe anything near it is going to happen, Sen. Josh Green’s bill SB 3032 should be strongly supported. As Civil Beat wrote in a recent editorial:
“Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.”
The unofficial mantra of Second Amendment enthusiasts, those two sentences, comprising a total of seven words, sum up the abiding argument of the gun lobby: Regulating guns is wrongheaded because only criminals or otherwise irresponsible people use guns improperly, and such people won’t follow a gun law any better than they’d follow any other law.
One could make the same argument, though, about automobiles. Cars don’t kill people. Lousy/inattentive/drunk drivers kill people. And treating gun owners just as we treat car owners is the driving sentiment behind SB 3032, Sen. Josh Green’s bill that would make personal liability insurance mandatory for all gun owners in Hawaii.
Green’s proposal is similar to bills moving forward in New Hampshire, Vermont, New York state and Los Angeles. All are premised on the idea that car owners are routinely required to carry insurance in case their vehicle injures someone.
Why shouldn’t we ask the same of gun owners, given that data released in late 2015 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that, “For the first time in more than 60 years, firearms and automobiles are killing Americans at an identical rate,” as the Washington Post reported in December?
The complete editorial is at:
http://www.civilbeat.com/2016/02/guns-ow...ar-owners/
And you can read about, and find a link to SB 3032, here:
http://capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv....illtype=SB&billnumber=3032&year=2016
Baring that, and yes I recognize that the gun lobby is too strong to believe anything near it is going to happen, Sen. Josh Green’s bill SB 3032 should be strongly supported. As Civil Beat wrote in a recent editorial:
“Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.”
The unofficial mantra of Second Amendment enthusiasts, those two sentences, comprising a total of seven words, sum up the abiding argument of the gun lobby: Regulating guns is wrongheaded because only criminals or otherwise irresponsible people use guns improperly, and such people won’t follow a gun law any better than they’d follow any other law.
One could make the same argument, though, about automobiles. Cars don’t kill people. Lousy/inattentive/drunk drivers kill people. And treating gun owners just as we treat car owners is the driving sentiment behind SB 3032, Sen. Josh Green’s bill that would make personal liability insurance mandatory for all gun owners in Hawaii.
Green’s proposal is similar to bills moving forward in New Hampshire, Vermont, New York state and Los Angeles. All are premised on the idea that car owners are routinely required to carry insurance in case their vehicle injures someone.
Why shouldn’t we ask the same of gun owners, given that data released in late 2015 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that, “For the first time in more than 60 years, firearms and automobiles are killing Americans at an identical rate,” as the Washington Post reported in December?
The complete editorial is at:
http://www.civilbeat.com/2016/02/guns-ow...ar-owners/
And you can read about, and find a link to SB 3032, here:
http://capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv....illtype=SB&billnumber=3032&year=2016