On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:51:45 -0800, Gunner wrote:

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 02:54:19 +0000 (UTC), Przemek Klosowski
wrote:

Gun control is really an issue of risk management. I have another
proposal: outsource gun control to the free market by requiring gun
insurance---just like car insurance, where nobody complains about the
tyrannical government limiting our right to move around freely.

What part of :

"the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"

do you not understand?

You keep using that phrase but it does not mean what you think it means.
Is the right to have a car infringed by the registration and insurance
requirement? We as society do not think so, but I will not be surprised
to find that you hold a minority- opposing view.

Currently, the cost of gun ownership is externalized to everyone, and the
proposals like hiring armed bodyguards for every school (and let's not
forget churches, fast food places and shopping malls) would result in
even more cost that I as a taxpayer would have to foot. I object to that,
and I demand that gun ownership carries a set of obligations that Ed
Huntress outlined: responsible stewardship requirement is just a first,
fundamental one.

I happen to think that insurance would be an objective, fair way of
pricing such risks. In fact it's the only way in the long term to
guarantee that the gun ownership choice can be fairly exercised without
externalizing its cost. For instance, it would provide an objective
insight on the relative risks of keeping semi-automatic weapons in
households with psychotic teenagers.