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A Modest Proposal: What If We Required Mandatory Gun Insurance?

A Modest Proposal: What If We Required Mandatory Gun Insurance?

If you have a rifle and it’s only used for hunting, low rates. If you have a Glock and you carry it in an open-carry town or state, your rates will be very high – because odds are so much higher that innocent bystanders may get caught in a shootout.
The more training and safety classes you take, the cheaper the premium.

I like this idea. And we can make the insurance tax deductible in cases where it makes sense. No one has to give up their gun, but those who might be putting others at risk with irresponsible gun ownership will pay into a fund to pay for tax deductions for responsible gun owners.

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Four adults are killed in Benghazi and the right-wing politicizes it endlessly. But 20 small children are slaughtered in Connecticut and the nation is told to do nothing. Waiting for the good guys – Roger Simon – POLITICO.com

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in the 18 years before tougher laws were passed, there were 13 mass shootings in Australia…and none in the 10.5 years afterwards. The results of tougher gun laws in Australia Yet the claim that people who want guns will find a way? Why?

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Republicans are demanding ever deeper spending cuts, but they won’t detail with any meaningful specificity what those cuts should be, and they insist they can solve our revenue problem via eliminating loopholes and deductions, but they won’t detail with any meaningful specificity what those should be, either. By contrast, Dems have detailed their demands —… Continue reading Untitled

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A deterministic finite automata (DFA) for all the different ways to spell Chanukah. ilovecharts: A deterministic finite automata (DFA) for all the different ways to spell Chanukah. And if you’re a regular expression geek, it’s (Ch|H)an(n?)uk(k?)a(h?) – Avidan Ackerson