LOS ANGELES -- Three Los Angeles City Councilmen introduced a motion Wednesday to explore a potential ordinance to require gun owners in Los Angeles to purchase firearm liability insurance.The ordinance would be modeled after one in San Jose that requires liability insurance through homeowner's or renter's insurance. That ordinance also requires an annual fee that is used for evidence-based initiatives that aim to reduce gun violence.
The councilmen said in the motion that insurance would encourage people who own firearms to take safety courses, make sure firearms are properly stored and secured, install trigger locks and use loaded chamber indicators.
Yeah... hold your breath on that one. 😏
Stupid
More money in someone else’s pocket from the responsible 😒
make the criminals carry property damage insurance too so they can break into my house and i shoot them and we exchange insurance information 🤡🤡🤡
A large dog with big teeth is always a deterrent. I love the police pursuits when the dog is let out and goes after the criminal. Nothing better.
Will criminals be getting the insurance too?
Nope nope nope
I’m not against guns or for guns but this sounds like a cash grab from California and insurance companies.
So criminals can sue you …. Ridiculous!
Great idea!
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Great plan I think they should be held responsible for their guns even if that weapon is stolen and used in a crime
This amount of people responding “good” to this post is terrifying.
Another liberal idea where only criminals will be able to ignore, but law-abiding citizens will be held to another standard. Get rid of these council creatures.
Won’t stop crime as the bad actors couldn’t care less about ignorant guns laws.
Backdoor gun control.
Unenforceable!
Do the police have it?
So they don't want AAPI community to defend themselves against the 500% increase in hate crimes towards them
Good. I have to get renters insurance and car insurance. And have to take a drivers test. Gun owners should have to get insurance as well. Those that don’t, could get sued. You don’t need guns.
Yeah...because the guy driving a 1997 Toyota with no auto insurance and carrying 2 ghost guns and a bag of meth is going to immediately comply with this law. We are ruled by idiots.
Bs
More ppl are killed with hammers are we going to have to get hammer Insuranse
So the democrats want to tax and punish lawful gun owners rather then arrest and confiscate the guns from the unlawful (AKA the criminals). Sounds about right, for a liberal. 🙄
Money grab
The need’s been here for years! Gun registration, ownership license, liability insurance, Gun use & safety classes! Finally the industry needs to retrofit all guns w/finger print locks which will restrict firing the gun to the purchaser of the gun only!⌛️we own our right to own!
More TheDemocrats Scumacrat laws !! Fuck all you!
Stupid law . Waste of tax payers money.
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Great News! 👍 You need insurance for your car, why wouldn't you need insurance for a firearm, a weapon, designed to end lives?
How are they going to know who has a firearm? How will this be enforced? I suspect that the criminal element won’t care about this proposed new law like they don’t care about the other gun control laws. Why not address the issues driving the violence instead?
Just another liberal money grab
Especially Law enforcement since they carry their firearms daily and are more likely to be engaged in firearms-related violence in our community.
These cities are tripping! Next thing you know they’re going to be taxing you or making you get insurance for wanting to go for a jog 🤦🏻♂️
So do you think criminals will be buying liability insurance as well?
Control freaks
jorge350z everything is for money know man
This is really gonna stop them gangstas
This is how they're going to take gun rights away from minorities. They're going to make it so only the privileged can afford to own guns.
😂😂 ya no hayan como chingar al prójimo, el asunto es hacer negocio. perros desgraciados corruptos, a ver si la policía también va a tener ese seguro. PENDEJOS.😡😡
Great News 👍
NO WAY JOSE.
Good! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
U guys notice that prisons just get bigger and bigger? Did u notice that sentencing since the 70's have almost doubled for the same crimes and the jails just get more full? I think criminals are just gonna do what they always do. This will only apply to legal owners.
Great! Let’s do it!
Watch there will be less shootings this way…
Mandatory minimums for gun offenses.
With kickbacks to the crooks that vote in favor of it! 💰💰💰
im a felon but ah... what if like some nikka or nikkas wanted to kill me.. how would i protect myself? like- say if someone pulled a gun out, or threatened my family by weapon, now, how would I be able to defend them not being able to own a firearm?
Yeah... good luck with that.
Good.
And how will they make sure all the criminals have purchased this insurance? Are they going door to door to ask everyone?
another reason to move out of LA
There’s nothing that hurts the community more then the over thinkers in charge
Yes!
Sounds like infringing to me
I'm sure all the criminals, crooks, thugs and gangbangers will gladly purchase this insurance!!
trying to copy San Jose I see
Excellent! haha
Why? So the perpetrators can sue you when they break in your house and get shot? Or that if you're not home and they steal your locked up gun and use it in a crime, that the person hurt when the *criminal* uses it can sue you as well? Win win!
YES YES YES YES!!!
BasedNoah
What is the statutory definition of 'gun-owner'?
TRUMPiCANS 🇺🇸
That sounds logical. We have liability insurance for our cars, why not weapons?
So if I become a cop I won’t have to pay insurance?
*Legal gun owners Fixed it for you.. Because ya know screw the law abiding citizens let’s squeeze everything from them. But go ahead, sleep on the sidewalk and do drugs in public kids, no punishment for that!
Well, that won't survive constitutional scrutiny. Never heard of someone being required to have liability insurance to exercise one's civil liberty. Oh, and does that mean poor people are de facto deprived of their 2nd Amendment rights? C'mon. Y'all can do better than that.
Shall not be infringed
Make me.
Please make it almost impossible to own guns.
The motion was introduced Wednesday by Councilmen Paul Koretz, Paul Krekorian and Mitch O'Farrell. Could these (D) Politicians possibly getting a kickback from the insurance companies 🤔
Can we pass criminal insurance? Im sure they will line up to pay that as well.
I thought we established that putting a price (even if small) on freedoms was racist.
Yeah this will stop all gun violence in LA. Unreal.
Sounds like a way to tax and punish lawful gun owners.
Pew pew, it's okay, I'm insured,pew pew.
And home invaders? 🤦♂️
Oh good. Force law obeying people to buy private insurance and a new tax for no change in gum violence because criminals aren't going to obey it anyway. Fucking brilliant way to screw the good guys once again.
Why do Democrats hate poor people so much?
It is about time. I wish it was mandatory around the country. There’s too many careless gun owners.
Even criminals?
Found a $100 bill on the floor. Should I keep it try finding out who’s is it
No.