02-26-2018, 02:30 AM
Good questions. Giving all that money to the insurance companies?
In addition to reducing the death toll I am also interested in determining whether the universe of guns can pay for the damage
done. I think the insurance industry is better suited to distribute
money to pay medical claims than government is. So in that I am aligned with the gun universe in that a private sector solution is more efficient than a public sector solution.
Just taking in the news that one or more people have been shot never
brings forth the fact that the physical crime is accompanied by an economic crime. Bullets come cheap. Trauma centers don't come cheap. Rehabilitation doesn't come cheap.
So in my mind any reform of the gun universe needs to include the economic issues as well.
Insurance does that for both natural and man made disasters.
Another factor is this: This is America. Money is the driving force of everything it seems. Currently a gun advocacy group like the NRA has a financial relationship with it's membership in the form of annual dues. That is the NRA's life blood.
If the NRA was to provide liability insurance (it already offers other insurances) then the relationship with it's membership fundamentally changes. The money involved increases exponentially and the "members" (accepted without scrutiny) become "the insured" (who are very much scrutinized). It would not bother me to see the NRA "evolve" into an insurance company.
In addition to reducing the death toll I am also interested in determining whether the universe of guns can pay for the damage
done. I think the insurance industry is better suited to distribute
money to pay medical claims than government is. So in that I am aligned with the gun universe in that a private sector solution is more efficient than a public sector solution.
Just taking in the news that one or more people have been shot never
brings forth the fact that the physical crime is accompanied by an economic crime. Bullets come cheap. Trauma centers don't come cheap. Rehabilitation doesn't come cheap.
So in my mind any reform of the gun universe needs to include the economic issues as well.
Insurance does that for both natural and man made disasters.
Another factor is this: This is America. Money is the driving force of everything it seems. Currently a gun advocacy group like the NRA has a financial relationship with it's membership in the form of annual dues. That is the NRA's life blood.
If the NRA was to provide liability insurance (it already offers other insurances) then the relationship with it's membership fundamentally changes. The money involved increases exponentially and the "members" (accepted without scrutiny) become "the insured" (who are very much scrutinized). It would not bother me to see the NRA "evolve" into an insurance company.
Assume the best and ask questions.
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