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34. Well, why not? Seems to work well enough when you substitute

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Mon Apr 19, 2021, 02:58 PM

Apr 2021

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I woke up this morning in a low seething rage. [View all] AndyS Apr 2021 OP

K&R smirkymonkey Apr 2021 #1

And make buyers of weapons take out insurance for any harm caused packman Apr 2021 #2

It would be a win win with this one Tree Lady Apr 2021 #5

Also, the faster the car, the higher the premiums ... aggiesal Apr 2021 #21

Yep! calimary Apr 2021 #24

They should require a certificate of operation much like a drivers license ... aggiesal Apr 2021 #31

Well, why not? Seems to work well enough when you substitute calimary Apr 2021 #34

And if any gun stores or retailers sells a gun ... aggiesal Apr 2021 #35

Raising prices works, if lowering tobacco usage is your goal. BobTheSubgenius Apr 2021 #45

Good suggestion pandr32 Apr 2021 #6

One partial solution - NRA/gun orgs sell (mandatory) liability insurance keithbvadu2 Apr 2021 #17

then take away their guns dianaredwing Apr 2021 #37

Requiring people to wear sarisataka Apr 2021 #58

In the past, those symbols were for in-born traits. Wednesdays Apr 2021 #91

A person may be born into sarisataka Apr 2021 #96

Has only to do with their legitimate or not legitimate ownership dianaredwing Apr 2021 #97

"They are all so afraid of losing their guns, we should just take them." Jedi Guy Apr 2021 #73

I really like this idea. We have to have wnylib Apr 2021 #41

And our car insurance does not cover criminal acts hack89 Apr 2021 #51

Do you think that all shootings wnylib Apr 2021 #65

Insurance also does not cover criminal acts committed with legally acquired guns hack89 Apr 2021 #80

Then I guess it would only work for wnylib Apr 2021 #84

The best way to curb gun violence is to focus the legal system on violence of every kind hack89 Apr 2021 #86

Have you ever heard sarisataka Apr 2021 #60

Don't know where you live, but here wnylib Apr 2021 #68

I live in MN sarisataka Apr 2021 #70

By law insurance companies are required wnylib Apr 2021 #72

They don't payout for criminal acts hack89 Apr 2021 #49

What is wrong with us indeed Bettie Apr 2021 #3

The carnage hasn't reached a level which would produce gun control laws that'd actually work Kaleva Apr 2021 #4

How many? When? If not now, if not me . . . AndyS Apr 2021 #7

The lack of protests, riots, hunger strike, arrests and such suggest not enough. Kaleva Apr 2021 #11

Oh, the protests are there but Trump tweets drown them out. Media???? AndyS Apr 2021 #12

Where's the tear gas, the rubber bullets, the attack dogs and the use of firehoses? Kaleva Apr 2021 #14

At what level would that take? Probatim Apr 2021 #16

I agree. A lot more people are going to have to die. Kaleva Apr 2021 #18

Grim. And probably true, sad to say. calimary Apr 2021 #27

Or families of celebrities, social icons, wnylib Apr 2021 #42

Remember that the vast vast majority of us are good decent people. We don't go running to SWBTATTReg Apr 2021 #8

+1. Background checks alone are not a lot of help. Outlawing detachable magazines would cool Hoyt Apr 2021 #9

Guns as penile extenders, I guess... calimary Apr 2021 #28

Many people in power, economically and otherwise... Buckeye_Democrat Apr 2021 #10

BINGO! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Apr 2021 #95

Is there even ONE documented case of anyone using an AR-15 for anything OTHER than killing someone? world wide wally Apr 2021 #13

The preferred weapon style of choice for killing schoolchildren keithbvadu2 Apr 2021 #20

Plenty of people hunt with them ripcord Apr 2021 #23

Rube in the video is disgustingly stupid. His "three little pigs" massacre must be a gun-humper Hoyt Apr 2021 #25

Pathetic world wide wally Apr 2021 #40

Uh, yeah having hunted hogs I can tell you that those other two hogs are gonna' AndyS Apr 2021 #46

They are the standard for competitive target shooting hack89 Apr 2021 #53

Well, gee... I guess that alone is worth all the lives it takes. world wide wally Apr 2021 #63

Ok. nt hack89 Apr 2021 #78

It is the prefered weapond for SWAT and other Law Enforcement. DiamondShark Apr 2021 #56

I woke up this AM with a blond female lab on my bed with me. She is 100 LBS and snores. Botany Apr 2021 #15

What wrong with "us" is not enough people vote Democratic. Hortensis Apr 2021 #19

Yes and the media acts like this only happens in CHICAGO. live love laugh Apr 2021 #22

Maybe we need to come at this from a different direction. Crunchy Frog Apr 2021 #26

Oh, you mean the $280 billion that fed, state and local governments pay now for AndyS Apr 2021 #30

Simplify it, and make sure that everyone understands it as a collective cost Crunchy Frog Apr 2021 #43

I'm with you on paying for the cost to victims, lord knows there's a lot of them, AndyS Apr 2021 #47

People would squeal that it was unfair discrimination, Crunchy Frog Apr 2021 #57

Show the horrifying pictures of the dead....and make it $5000/bullet MomInTheCrowd Apr 2021 #29

Those are available now to any who have the courage to google image search AndyS Apr 2021 #32

Make it mandatory viewing in middle and high school. Crunchy Frog Apr 2021 #62

You don't want to open that pandora's box Wednesdays Apr 2021 #93

a couple other items need attention NJCher Apr 2021 #33

Yeah, what you said . . . AndyS Apr 2021 #36

Regulate psyches instead of guns in the name of protecting personal freedom? Crunchy Frog Apr 2021 #54

that's not even close to what I was suggesting NJCher Apr 2021 #61

Okay. I appreciate the clarification. Crunchy Frog Apr 2021 #67

sure NJCher Apr 2021 #76

So censorship of movies you don't think people should be watching? EX500rider Apr 2021 #75

Hey, it's the gunners who have said for years it's not gunz, it's movies and video games. Just sayin AndyS Apr 2021 #79

I haven't heard anyone say that EX500rider Apr 2021 #83

From this I must assume you're not an NRA (soon RIP) or GOA or NSSF follower. Just sayin. AndyS Apr 2021 #85

Other countries watch American movies regularly Wednesdays Apr 2021 #94

We should be out in the streets over this Quakerfriend Apr 2021 #38

Make this an OP. Survivors need the exposure so somebody starts to pay attention to AndyS Apr 2021 #50

Speaking from experience in line at the gun store... Runningdawg Apr 2021 #39

Good point. We had a gun store near me that ran ads on FB. One said, "This AR15 is great if some Hoyt Apr 2021 #48

Well, Texas Legislators are now voting on making getting guns even easier MagickMuffin Apr 2021 #44

I called and emailed both of my reps, house and senate AndyS Apr 2021 #52

Yep, my reps are worthless as well MagickMuffin Apr 2021 #55

I'm seething, too, AndyS. LaMouffette Apr 2021 #59

Certainly, a semi-automatic rifle politruk Apr 2021 #64

I personally don't want to ban/confiscate all guns, AndyS Apr 2021 #66

You just want to ban the most popular and common guns hack89 Apr 2021 #81

My hubby is convinced we need to restrict ammo LittleGirl Apr 2021 #69

Do you realize that most gun nuts make their own ammo? Runningdawg Apr 2021 #77

I did not. LittleGirl Apr 2021 #88

That would be unconstitutional - the 2A covers ammo hack89 Apr 2021 #82

National personal armament insurance pool IbogaProject Apr 2021 #71

Not enough bodies stacked up yet for John Q. Public to say enough is enough. hadEnuf Apr 2021 #74

K&R MustLoveBeagles Apr 2021 #87

Kicked secondwind Apr 2021 #89

What about the right to life?!? augyboston Apr 2021 #90

Kick for visability...Thank You for Posting K and R Stuart G Apr 2021 #92