"Republicans and many Democrats in Congress have historically opposed curbs on gun ownership, but public pressure to enact legislation has increased substantially since the Connecticut school shooting in December that left 20 children dead."
Related: Elegy without end for a wordless child
Is it real, or all fiction?
Related: The Globe and Gun Control
Sunday Globe Special: Gun Control Confusion
Who could blame you as "retailers continue to run out of guns to sell?"
"Prompted by the December massacre of 20 first-graders and six adults in Newtown, Conn., the Democratic-led Judiciary Committee plans to write gun control legislation in the next few weeks."
‘‘Newtown has transformed America, and we need to build on that sense of urgency going forward,’’ Senator Richard Blumenthal said. ‘‘Preventing gun violence was thought to be untouchable politically two months ago. That unspeakable horror has given us unstoppable momentum.’’
"For all the grief-filled vigils and agonizing funerals that have marked the two months since a shooter killed the six adults and 20 first-graders at the school, Friday’s ceremony was markedly optimistic. In place of tears, there were smiles on the faces of some of the victims’ relatives."
?? More actors like Robbie Parker, 'eh?
"Newtown victim’s father urges action; In D.C., testifies in favor of ban on assault weapons" by Alan Fram and Philip Elliott | Associated Press, February 28, 2013
WASHINGTON — Neil Heslin, whose 6-year-old son, Jesse, was among those cut down at a Connecticut elementary school in December, asked the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday to ban assault weapons like the one that killed his child....
Actually, it is looking like no one died at all and the whole thing was a massive psyop on the American people.
At the same time, election results from Tuesday highlighted gun control’s potency as a political issue. Illinois state Representative Robin Kelly won a House Democratic primary after a political committee favoring firearms curbs financed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Independence USA, spent $2 million on ads for her. Kelly’s foe had opposed an assault weapons ban.
Related: Hutchinson exits race for Jackson’s US House seat
Also see: Bloomberg's Buckshot
Better scatter if you are living on the streets.
At the Senate hearing, spectators dabbed tears from their cheeks as Heslin described his last morning with his son, including getting a final hug as he dropped him off at school. The hearing room was packed with relatives and neighbors of victims of Newtown, as well as people affected by shootings at Aurora, Colo., and Virginia Tech.
Casting those events into a suspicious light.
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It's another actor, readers, that's all. This whole thing is a staged and scripted psyop.
"Senators craft bill on gun trafficking" March 05, 2013
WASHINGTON — Gun trafficking and the straw purchasing of firearms would become federal crimes under bipartisan legislation disclosed by five senators Monday....
So the government can't Fastly and Furiously move them to Mexican drug cartels anymore?
The measure would also make it a crime to smuggle firearms out of the United States....
Unless we are arming rebels to facilitate and foment coups and regime change elsewhere in the world.
The legislation will be taken up by the Judiciary Committee on Thursday as part of a package of four bills aimed at reducing gun violence. The others involve regulating assault weapons, enhancing school safety, and requiring background checks for all firearm sales.
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"Prospects limited for new gun control laws" by David Uberti | Globe Correspondent, March 07, 2013
WASHINGTON — Advocates for stricter gun controls have more money this year, more energy, the president’s backing, and the national outrage over the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre on their side. But there already is a sense in Washington that they will have to settle for more modest gains in the months ahead than an assault weapons ban or sharp limits on magazine capacity.
Just how much the shootings last year in Newtown, Conn. — as well as the mass shooting in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo. — have changed the political climate will be tested Thursday when the Senate Judiciary Committee reviews a series of proposals to curb gun violence.
“If we don’t get [gun control] this time, we never will,” said Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston, who cochairs a gun-control advocacy group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, with Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York.
Americans have grown accustomed to hearing “I’ll look at it,’’ or “We’ll see,’’ when they’ve asked lawmakers about gun control, said Representative Carolyn McCarthy of New York, who ran for office after her husband was killed and son wounded in a mass shooting on a Long Island commuter train in 1993. “People don’t want those answers anymore.
But the proposed assault weapons ban and limits on magazine capacity — even if Democrats win passage in the Senate — would not get far in the Republican-controlled House.
I'm tired of them wasting time and money playing political games.
Rather, proponents are pinning their best hopes on measures to expand the system for background checks and to penalize “straw buyers’’ who buy firearms for someone who is legally barred from doing so.
Speaker John Boehner has said the House will consider any legislation that passes the Senate, although he has not promised votes. A coalition of Democrats and moderate Republicans would likely be required to win passage in the House, where Tea Party Republicans hold great sway.
Even the most modest proposals may be difficult to pass, said Peter Ubertaccio, chairman of Stonehill College’s Department of Political Science and International Studies. Although gun control supporters have reached “the height of their strength . . . I wouldn’t expect much,” he said.
I'm not, and I better not be surprised.
“The further we get away from the tragedy in Newtown, the more difficult it’s going to be for pro-gun control forces to sustain their argument,” he said. “Even reasonable proposals get caught up in the emotions of pro- and anti-Second Amendment conversations.”
Thus the spate of reports about shootings and killings across the country the last three months.
The main goal of many gun control advocates is to expand the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, the FBI database which cross-checks potential gun buyers for criminal histories and mental illness, among other factors....
In October, the billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York founded a super PAC, Independence USA, focused on gun laws, education policy, and marriage equality. It spent more than $8 million in 2012 elections. And it poured more than $2 million into the Feb. 26 Democratic primary for Jesse Jackson Jr.’s empty House seat in Chicago, helping defeat a gun-friendly candidate....
Does it bother anyone that the FORMER REPUBLICAN BLOOMBERG is meddling in DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY POLITICS? Hello? Lefties, hello?
The NRA has been flexing its usual muscle in the aftermath of Newtown.
A$ much a$ Bloomberg?
It has garnered about a half-million new members since mid-December, bringing total membership to about 4.5 million, NRA spokeswoman Jacqueline Otto said....
Oh, so ONCE AGAIN the AGENDA-PUSHING PSY-OP has BACKFIRED!
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"Senate panel backs tougher rules on illegal gun deals; Grassley is lone GOP member to vote for bill" by Alan Fram | Associated Press, March 08, 2013
WASHINGTON —Thursday’s debate made it clear that despite recent mass slayings, new gun restrictions face a difficult path in a Congress in which the National Rifle Association and conservative voters have a loud voice....
Solid opposition from Republicans, and likely resistance from moderate Democrats from GOP-leaning states, seems all but certain to doom the assault weapons ban when gun bills reach the full Senate, probably in April.
The fate of the other bills is uncertain.
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"Senate panel backs bill to reinstate weapons ban" by Jennifer Steinhauer | New York Times, March 15, 2013
WASHINGTON — The measure, the fourth and most controversial passed by the committee, is almost certain to fail if brought before the entire Senate and has a minuscule chance of even receiving a hearing in the House....
I'm tired of s***-show political posturing.
The debate over who may obtain weapons, what type, and within what limitations goes to the heart of the interpretation of both the Second Amendment and the Supreme Court’s most recent findings on its limitations, which it found existed, without outlining what those specific limitations should be.
In a separate development, New York state officials said an overwhelming majority of gun show operators in the state have agreed to new rules to ensure that criminal and mental health background checks are conducted on buyers.
The agreement was reached after undercover agents from the attorney general’s office were able to buy weapons, including three semi-automatic rifles, without any screening at half a dozen gun shows around the state.
How about solving some crimes first?
The investigators, posing as buyers, were able to purchase firearms even after they told the sellers that they had orders of protection against them, in which case they would fail background checks.
That's what they say.
The operators, with shows from White Plains to Cheektowaga, have also agreed to a broader system to track firearms at their shows and to guard against illegal sales in parking lots.
The agreement was negotiated by Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, who had brought criminal charges against the sellers identified in the sting operation.
And yet he backed off the banks!
New York law has required universal background checks for guns sales since 2000, but Schneiderman said there was ample evidence they were not being followed.
Oh, so we DON'T REALLY NEED MORE LAWS, we only need to EXISTING ONES to BE ENFORCED! I'm telling you, something sure stinks and it doesn't smell like gunpowder.
''Our goal is to have 100 percent of the gun show operators on board, and then we have a good example for other states to follow,’’ Schneiderman, a Democrat, said this week. ‘‘Once we demonstrate how easy this is and how it keeps people safe, it weakens the arguments on the federal level that guaranteeing background checks are overly burdensome or face meaningful opposition.’’
And what if it doesn't? What then?
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I wonder how the people of New York reacted:
"Opponents of N.Y. gun law rally in Albany" by Michael Virtanen | Associated Press, March 01, 2013
ALBANY, N.Y. — National Rifle Association president David Keene told a rally of thousands of opponents of New York’s new gun control law Thursday that his group will help them ensure that the Second Amendment rights passed down to them will be passed on to future generations.
Ever notice there are always many more gun rights supporters than opponents -- at least, by protest counts?
‘‘We’ve lost battles before. We will not lose the war,’’ Keene said. He was cheered by the throng that filled the Albany park west of the Capitol, many arriving on buses from across the state and advocating repeal of one of the toughest gun-control laws in the United States.
‘‘New York has proven once again that it can top Washington in terms of the high-handedness of some of the people that hold its highest offices,’’ Keene said. ‘‘I’m here to join you in protesting the fact that your governor is willing to sacrifice the Constitution, your rights as citizens, and the prerogatives of his legislature on the altar of his own ambition and on the ego of Michael Bloomberg of New York City.’’
Related: Judge Gives Bloomberg the Burps
Even wants to tell you what size soda you can drink.
The law enacted Jan. 15, pushed by Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, sets a seven-bullet limit on magazines, tightens the definition of illegal ‘‘assault weapons,’’ and requires owners of formerly legal semiautomatic guns to register them.
‘‘We will not comply,’’ the crowd chanted. Several protesters said it is unconstitutional, violating their right to bear arms. They also chanted, ‘‘Cuomo’s got to go.’’
Administration officials noted that a recent poll showed 65 percent of New Yorkers support the law and that the crowd was half the 10,000 organizers said they expected.
Fizzled like a controlled-opposition rally, huh?
That Siena College poll showed strong support in the greater New York City area, with opposition in many upstate counties.
You know, where you don't have all the crime that the Big Apple has.
Mayor Bloomberg is an advocate of gun control whose city has even tighter restrictions than the state law.
Two lines in the morning stretched through the underground concourse of Empire State Plaza in downtown Albany, with a mass of demonstrators waiting to pass through checkpoints and metal detectors to enter the Capitol. Several held signs with slogans like, ‘‘Don’t tread on me.’’ Some signs depicted Cuomo as a fascist dictator.
Well, he DID BRING UP CONFISCATION, and the state sure is acting like one with their checkpoints and metal detectors. I noticed the other side doesn't receive such invasive infringement on rights.!
Extra state troopers were on duty. They estimated the crowd at ‘‘5,000-plus,’’ spokeswoman Kristin Lowman said.
Meaning it was about double.
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Related:
Senate drops assault gun ban from bill
Gun debate a test for Senator Patrick Leahy
UPDATE: Obama urges Senate to pass gun control laws
NEXT DAY UPDATES:
You know, if you do the research, read my posts, follow the links, and watch the videos you will find that the alleged shooter had died before the event ever took place. And what is with all the victim websites set up days before the event? None of that (or any of the other outrageous discrepancies) is addressed in the staged and scripted craftwork that is called AmeriKan reporting. The fact that the president is "invoking" it is even more disturbing.
Pulling out all the stops now:
"President John F. Kennedy, was shot and killed in Dallas when she was only 4. Her father, Robert Kennedy, was gunned down four years later in the midst of his 1968 presidential run, only two months after civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed on a hotel balcony in Memphis."
It's offensive to see the gun-grabbing oppressors use those saints for peace to push their agenda.
Yeah, I actually saw Rachel Maddow try to argue that JFK was unsuccessful in banning the Mannlicher-Carcano -- the very gun that would kill him. It was shocking to hear and see her blind faith in the truthfulness of the long-discredited Warren Commission.
Of course, that's why she has a TV show.
Time for a vigil.
Related: Leader sorry for Newtown pastor’s reprimand
So who needs a gun?
"Gun sales to women up in last decade" New York Times, February 11, 2013
PAINESVILLE, Ohio — Though they may share a fierce belief in the Second Amendment with their male counterparts, female gun owners often learn to shoot for different reasons, their interest in and proficiency with firearms not just a hobby or a means for self-defense, but a statement of independence and personal power.
Actually, I was hoping it was for the self defense.
Actually, I was hoping it was for the self defense.
Tina Wilson-Cohen, a former Secret Service agent, founded She Can Shoot, a women’s league with 10 chapters and 3,000 members, said....
Web Globe didn't want to tell you so I will:
"Firearms also often carry a different meaning for women than for men, who grow up with Hollywood images of guns that tell them “this is what a real man looks like and that’s how a real man acts, and it’s kind of delusional, really,” Ms. Wilson-Cohen said."
Until they send us off to war. And thanks for calling out Jollywood, too.
Until they send us off to war. And thanks for calling out Jollywood, too.
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Who else needs a gun?
"Researchers cite surge in antigovernment groups" by Bob Johnson and Jeff Martin | Associated Press, March 06, 2013
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — President Obama’s administration and the gun control debate after the Connecticut school shooting have led to surging numbers of antigovernment ‘‘patriot’’ groups, according to a civil rights organization that tracks them.
The Southern Poverty Law Center reported the rise on Tuesday in its annual report on extremist groups.
Oh, look, an agenda-pushing Jewish hate group posing as a rights organization.
The number of antigovernment patriot groups, one category tracked by the center, rose dramatically over the past four years, from 149 groups in 2008 to 1,360 today, researchers reported....
Government agents have been busy.
The election and reelection of the nation’s first black president and the ragged economy have fueled their growth, said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the law center.
His color has nothing to do with it with me; it's his policies.
On gun control, the debate following the Newtown, Conn., mass murder of schoolchildren has led to ‘‘a kind of white-hot rage unleashed on both the radical right and also within more mainstream political circles,’’ he said....
In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, the law center urged the creation of a task force to assess whether there are enough federal resources devoted to the threat of domestic terrorism.
What do you do when it is the government that is creating, funding, and directing "terrorist" groups?
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Who else needs a gun?
"Researchers cite surge in antigovernment groups" by Bob Johnson and Jeff Martin | Associated Press, March 06, 2013
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — President Obama’s administration and the gun control debate after the Connecticut school shooting have led to surging numbers of antigovernment ‘‘patriot’’ groups, according to a civil rights organization that tracks them.
The Southern Poverty Law Center reported the rise on Tuesday in its annual report on extremist groups.
Oh, look, an agenda-pushing Jewish hate group posing as a rights organization.
The number of antigovernment patriot groups, one category tracked by the center, rose dramatically over the past four years, from 149 groups in 2008 to 1,360 today, researchers reported....
Government agents have been busy.
The election and reelection of the nation’s first black president and the ragged economy have fueled their growth, said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the law center.
His color has nothing to do with it with me; it's his policies.
On gun control, the debate following the Newtown, Conn., mass murder of schoolchildren has led to ‘‘a kind of white-hot rage unleashed on both the radical right and also within more mainstream political circles,’’ he said....
In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, the law center urged the creation of a task force to assess whether there are enough federal resources devoted to the threat of domestic terrorism.
What do you do when it is the government that is creating, funding, and directing "terrorist" groups?
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I guess I'll let the NRA get in their shot:
"NRA uses Justice memo to rap Obama gun control plans
WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association is using a Justice Department memo it obtained to argue in ads that the Obama administration believes its gun control plans won’t work unless the government seizes firearms and requires national gun registration — ideas the White House has not proposed and says it does not support.
Well, if it was IN a MEMO it was BEING DISCUSSED!
Related: Sunday Globe Special: They Really Are Coming For Your Guns
Yeah, I know you don't believe me, but....
The NRA’s assertion and its use of the memo underscore the no-holds-barred battle underway over gun restrictions.
The memo, under the name of one of the Justice Department’s leading crime researchers, critiques the effectiveness of gun control proposals, including some of President Obama’s. A Justice Department official called the memo an unfinished review of gun violence research and said it does not represent administration policy.
What it is is someone with a conscience inside the Justice Department leaked this.
The memo says requiring background checks for more gun purchases could help but could also lead to more illicit weapons sales. It says banning assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines produced in the future but exempting those already owned by the public, as Obama has proposed, would have limited impact because people now own so many of those items.
From our cold dead hands -- and we are hoping it never comes to that.
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At least I can get a permit in Massachusetts:
"No fixed standards for gun permits in Mass." by Brian MacQuarrie | Globe Staff, March 11, 2013
For someone in Milford with a clean criminal record and certifiably sound mind, getting a license to carry a concealed weapon is not much tougher than filling out some paperwork and waiting for a background check.
Not in Newton. Novice gun owners there cannot get an unrestricted license to conceal and carry a weapon — even if they have a spotless record. “It’s been consistent policy: not for first-time applicants,” Newton police Lieutenant Edward Aucoin said. “I’ve had people who come in here and want to get a license without having shot a gun in their life.”
That difference, played out across the state, reflects a patchwork system in which geography, and gut instinct, can determine whether someone obtains what is known as an unrestricted Class A license, which allows him or her to carry not only a concealed weapon but loaded, large-capacity handguns, rifles, and shotguns without limits on use. It is the broadest gun license available under state law, held by 240,000 people.
Although applicants must clear a state background check — no felony convictions or restraining orders, for example — the final say goes to local police chiefs, who have discretion to reject any resident not deemed “suitable” for a license to carry. They also can limit permits to target practice, sport, hunting, or to people whose jobs are thought to put them at risk.
You lived in a dictatorship and didn't even know it.
“I don’t put restrictions on licenses, period,” said Thomas O’Loughlin, the police chief in Milford, a town of 28,000 people that had 1,395 licenses to carry last year. “To me, it would be like the Registry restricting driver’s licenses and saying, ‘We’ll let you drive your car only to and from work.’ ”
But Newton police routinely restrict those gun licenses, usually by limiting them to target shooting and hunting. The city had 1,147 active Class A licenses in 2012 — 18 percent fewer than Milford despite being three times bigger.
Newton police, however, are willing to change their minds over time. Gun owners often are allowed to carry concealed weapons after six years, when licenses come up for renewal, if they have used the weapon appropriately and remain within state guidelines, Aucoin said.
Unrestricted licenses to carry a gun, which cost $100 and must be sought in an applicant’s place of residence, comprise about three-quarters of the gun permits in Massachusetts, according to data provided by the state Department of Public Safety. All Class A licenses — those with restrictions and those without — make up 82.4 percent of permits.
By contrast, Class B permits account for only 1.3 percent of the licenses in Massachusetts. That permit does not allow a gun to be carried concealed, but allows the purchase of all weapons sanctioned under the Class A license except for a large-capacity handgun.
“If I’m spending $100, I might as well get the gold card,” said Milford police Sergeant Michael Pasacane, describing how people approach the gun-license process. He oversees the application procedure.
The lowest-level gun permit, a Firearms Identification Card, allows the purchase and possession of small-capacity rifles or shotguns. A handgun cannot be bought or owned with such a license.
Nearly everyone interested in the licensing process — gun-control activists, gun-rights groups, and police — agree that the state lacks a consistent standard for issuing licenses to carry. They also acknowledge enforcing restrictions can be difficult and the courts might have to sort out town-to-town differences regarding police discretion.
“The [licensing] statute is written in a way that is open for interpretation, and that many people, including the courts, have struggled to explain what that language means,” said Jason Guida, a former director of the state Firearms Record Bureau, which maintains a database of licenses, sales by gun dealers, and private transfers.
At issue is language that allows police chiefs to grant unrestricted Class A permits “if it appears that the applicant is a suitable person to be issued such license, and that the applicant has good reason to fear injury to his person or property.”
The term “suitable person” is so broad and vague, gun-rights advocates argue, that an applicant can clear all the specific, statutory hurdles for crime and mental-health issues and still be denied a license.
A chief “might not like red-headed people,” said Brent Carlton, president of Comm2A, a gun-rights organization that filed suit last month in US District Court in Boston against four Massachusetts police chiefs who refused to issue unrestricted licenses to six plaintiffs. By limiting the licenses, Comm2A says, the chiefs denied the applicants the right to carry a weapon for self-defense.
Actually, they are prone to anger more easily, aren't they?
“We would like to see, certainly, a consistent standard across all Massachusetts,” said Carlton, whose group sued the chiefs in Danvers, Peabody, Weymouth, and Worcester.
Okay, no red-headed people get to have guns.
Justin Stasiowski, a 24-year-old copywriter, said his request for an unrestricted license was approved hassle-free in Wellesley in 2011. He carries a .38-caliber revolver nearly everywhere, except the gym.
Everyday life, he said, has suddenly become more dangerous and unpredictable.
Yeah, with all those armed redheads walking around.
“I’m kind of caught off guard by national events, mass shootings, and things, and I feel like you never really know when someone crazy can walk into a mall, or a movie theater, or whatever,” Stasiowski said.
The mind-manipulating psy-ops are working!
Many urban police, who are generally less likely to approve unrestricted licenses than their rural counterparts, see the discretion to deny a license as an invaluable tool to keep the streets safer.
Then why are Boston's so bad?
“Should fear alone give you the right to carry a firearm?” asked Jack Albert, the deputy police superintendent in Cambridge. “I appreciate the Second Amendment rights — I’m a gun owner myself — but do we want everyone walking the streets of Cambridge [with a handgun] when you don’t have a proper purpose?”
Self defense is not a proper purpose?
Albert said he is reluctant to issue an unrestricted Class A license to someone who wants a gun simply for assurance — a young applicant, for example, who is new to city living, has no experience with firearms, and is nervous in an urban environment. Cambridge puts limits on about 40 percent of its licenses to carry, Albert said.
And what happens when that person is robbed (or raped)?
In Boston, police said they want to be convinced that an unrestricted gun license is warranted before they issue one.
“They need to articulate a story that makes sense to us,” Superintendent-in-Chief Daniel Linskey said. “We have people living on top of each other, and the commissioner wants to make sure we give them out wisely and diligently.”
As examples, Linskey said, police might issue unrestricted licenses to corrections officers who have been threatened and to business owners who carry large amounts of cash.
The city’s 4,839 licenses to carry, or 7.8 licenses per 1,000 residents, is the fourth-lowest in the state. The town of Chesterfield in Western Massachusetts leads the state with 272.2 permits per 1,000 people.
Following the December shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, applications for Class A licenses surged in Massachusetts, police said.
Another backfire!
“Everybody’s afraid that the Second Amendment is going away,” said Gloucester police Lieutenant Joe Aiello.
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Gunna make you get insurance though:
"Like drivers, gun owners may soon need insurance" by Michael Cooper and Mary Williams Walsh | New York Times, February 22, 2013
NEW YORK — Both sides of the gun debate seem to agree on at least one thing: a bigger role for the insurance industry in a heavily armed society....
Cui bono?
Some groups, including the National Rifle Association, endorse voluntary liability policies.And as several states pass laws making it easier for people to carry concealed weapons and use them for self-defense, some gun groups are now selling policies to cover some of the legal costs stemming from such shootings.
The US Concealed Carry Association recently began selling what it calls ‘‘Self-Defense Shield.’’ “If you’re forced to justifiably use your gun in self-defense,’’ its website says, ‘‘Self-Defense SHIELD will help pay for your expert pro-2d Amendment lawyer by reimbursing your legal-defense expenses following your acquittal — an ingenious system critical to the arsenal of any responsibly armed citizen.’’
It's ingeniou$, all right.
Some specialized underwriters are reviewing what their policies cover when it comes to shootings and considering whether they should offer new types of coverage for gun owners. And as more states pass laws allowing people to bring guns to public venues — including restaurants, bars, churches, and the parking lots of their workplaces — some business groups have expressed concerns that they could be held liable for shootings on their properties, which could drive up insurance costs.
Why not? I'm held liable for what happens on my property.
The insurance industry is wary of some of the proposals to require gun owners to buy liability coverage — and particularly of bills, like one that was filed in New York, that would require coverage for damages resulting not just from negligence but also from ‘‘willful acts.’’
Yeah, this could really empty their pockets given the cri$i$ of violence in this country.
Robert P. Hartwig, the president of the Insurance Information Institute, said that insurance generally covers accidents and unintentional acts — not intentional or illegal ones....
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In$urance companies getting in while your pen$ion is getting out?
"Calif. pension fund divests gun assets" by Michael B. Marois | Bloomberg News, February 20, 2013
SACRAMENTO — The California Public Employees’ Retirement System board voted to divest its $5 million in shares of Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. and Sturm Ruger & Co. because the companies make weapons banned in the state.
Have they divested from Israel and AmeriKan war profiteers?
California Treasurer Bill Lockyer, a member of the fund’s board, proposed that California’s public pensions sell the shares after the Dec. 14 killings of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. The move has been mirrored by public funds across the United States.
Calpers is the biggest US pension fund, controlling $254.5 billion in assets. The two companies are the biggest publicly traded US gunmakers.
California bans some types of firearms and ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. The California State Teachers’ Retirement System decided last month to begin selling its stakes in gunmakers.
The teachers’ pension also held a stake in New York-based Cerberus Capital Management. The private-equity firm owned Freedom Group, the maker of the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle that police said was the primary weapon in the Sandy Hook attack.
Except it was found outside in the car and not next to the alleged shooter Lanza.
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Related: The Colorado-Texas Connection
That can't be good for the economy -- or maybe it is.
Also see:
I heard Obama was getting after the gangs.
Oh, yeah, they are on break this week.
