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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (867900)	6/25/2015 4:42:21 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578302

By forcing insurance to cover the damages caused by those intentionally doing harm, you are making all the law-abiding gun owners subsidize the damages caused by the criminals. Be real. Since when do criminals care about such niceties as insurance? That is yet another attempt by you to distract here. Now one case where it could come up is like when there is a domestic disturbance that gets solved with a weapon. This is a close analogy to the road rage scenario. But if you want to defend people, usually but not exclusively men, who kill their significant others, that is your call. The point is that there should be some sort of risk assessment done before someone can get a firearm. Insurance companies are in that business. Any risk can be quantified. In the above case, a historic of domestic abuse would mean pretty high rates. In addition, the risk is very different depending on the firearm, how much ammo it can hold, etc. A single shot .22 is a totally different risk from an AR-15 with a 100 round magazine. And that would be different from a PS90 with 50 rounds. You could try to control the risk via legislation, but that is a difficult and inflexible process. Why not let someone with a stake in the matter, like an insurance company, do it? As to a loose interpretation of truth and honesty, that is between you and your God. You are the one who has been trying to twist things and put words in my mouth. If that isn't playing fast and loose with the truth, I don't know what is...