{"id":97322,"date":"2018-09-13T10:10:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T14:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=97322"},"modified":"2018-09-13T10:10:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T17:48:59","slug":"vice-news-says-dont-ban-the-ar-require-insurance-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/vice-news-says-dont-ban-the-ar-require-insurance-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice News Says, \u2018Don\u2019t Ban the AR, Require Insurance For It\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vice News contributor Krishna Andavolu doesn\u2019t want to ban modern sporting rifles, he wants gun owners to buy insurance for them.<\/p>\n

In a new series tackling the gun debate, titled, \u201cMaybe I\u2019m Wrong,<\/a>\u201d Andavolu lays out his argument. He starts by admitting what few gun-control advocates will\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe I\u2019m wrong, but gun bans don’t really work,\u201d writes Andavolu. Hold the phone! Did he really just say that?! Wait, it gets better (watch the video, too).<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere are too many AR-15s in the country\u2014approximately eight million, according to the NRA\u2014for a ban on future sales to prevent their use in further mass shootings,\u201d he continues. \u201cUnless the US were to enact an Australian-style buyback and amnesty initiative, there\u2019s little to suggest these kinds of guns wouldn’t be used in illegal ways to kill people again, regardless of future regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quick point on that Australian-style mandatory buyback, even that didn\u2019t work out so well. Because surprise! surprise! Not everyone turned \u2018em in. Over 600,000 were seized and destroyed during that time period between \u201996-97. About a decade later, in 2007, however, there were still 3 million guns still in civilian hands, according to Small Arms Survey Data<\/a>.\u00a0 And that tally doesn’t account for the number of street guns in the hands of gangs and drug dealers.<\/a><\/p>\n

What\u2019s more is that its effect on crime rates wasn\u2019t statistically significant, as Reason.com pointed out in a rather\u00a0detailed article<\/a>. Bottom line is even the most massive and \u201csuccessful\u201d confiscation in history was a failure. Just so we\u2019re all on the same page.<\/p>\n

Anyways, Andavolu also mentions the \u201caxiom of prohibition,\u201d which is \u201cIf you tell people they can\u2019t have something they want\u2014something they feel they have the right to own\u2014they might just want it even more.\u201d He\u2019s right! Nothing whets an appetite like forbidden fruit.<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO:\u00a0NY Bill Would Require $250K in Liability Insurance for Gun Owners<\/a><\/h2>\n

While Andavolu starts out making sense he inevitably veers off into absurdity by calling for AR insurance.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo instead of banning these rifles, states should require gun owners to buy insurance in case their gun is used to kill wrongfully; that way, at least victims and their families might recover some financial damages. In most states, individual gun owners can be held liable, but it\u2019s rare that any one person might have enough money to compensate victims. Mandating insurance would collectivize the risk posed to broader society by the constitutional right to bear arms.\u201d<\/p>\n

First off, most mass killers buy their own guns because they have no criminal or mental health records that would disqualify them purchasing them in a gun shop, as Criminologist James Alan Fox has documented<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Second, Virginia Tech, one of the deadliest mass shootings of all time was committed with handguns. Proving that one doesn\u2019t need an AR to kill a lot of people. The most critical component to limiting the death toll in a mass killing situation is reducing the amount of time it takes for armed resistance \u2014 be it law enforcement, a resource officer or a concealed carrier \u2014 to engage the killer.\u00a0 Maybe this should be at the forefront of the conversation on stopping mass killers?<\/p>\n

Third, AR insurance only works for the insured.\u00a0 Criminals won’t opt into the insurance pool.\u00a0 This is a criticism that\u00a0Andavolu acknowledges, albeit briefly.\u00a0 “If you decide to own a gun, are you willing to bear the cost of it causing the damage it was designed\u2014in the most extreme cases\u2014to inflict? Some might argue this would dissuade people from owning guns legally, simply incentivizing people to buy guns under the table.” Duh, ya think?<\/p>\n

Lastly, AR insurance is nothing more than a way to tax and regulate AR ownership out of existence.<\/p>\n

“The gun prohibition lobby is pushing an extremist agenda that would force gun owners to have mandatory gun liability insurance or face fines up to $10,000. I call this a gun ban because you can only keep your gun if you can afford to pay the mandated insurance premium,\u201d said Alan Gottlieb in an email to GunsAmerica.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the big catch is the insurance must be a ‘qualified’ insurance company approved by the government. If your state does not approve an insurance company you can’t own a gun period,\u201d Gottlieb added.<\/p>\n

Safe to say, Andavolu, you\u2019re right when it comes to gun bans. They don\u2019t work. But you\u2019re definitely wrong about AR insurance. It\u2019s only going to put a financial burden on law-abiding citizens while doing nothing to stop mass killers.<\/p>\n

***Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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