{"id":190797568,"date":"2011-01-18T07:19:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T07:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=190797568"},"modified":"2011-01-18T07:19:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T07:19:28","slug":"what-if-we-required-mandatory-gun-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=190797568","title":{"rendered":"What If We Required Mandatory Gun Insurance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/handguns.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><br \/>\nI was reading about this concept  on Crooks and Liars and I though what if Gun Insurance worked as well as Car Insurance? (Please note the article that I used for a springboard has some very pragmatic points on responsible gun ownership but my thoughts went  off on a tangent.)<\/p>\n<p>So off on my little flight of fantasy: If Gun Insurance worked as well as Car Insurance: if someone got shot there would be no need to worry as the shooter has insurance;  there would be &#8220;accident&#8221; forgiveness programs so if you accidentally shot someone your rates would not go up; If someone was showing off by twirling a six shooter around their finger and accidentally shot a few people, Michael Dresser would write how this should not have a extra penalty as there was no actual intent to cause harm.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI launched into my tangent from here: <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/susie-madrak\/modest-proposal-what-if-we-required-m\">A Modest Proposal: What If We Required Mandatory Gun Insurance?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=201101131238409\">The flaw in our our proposed bill &#8211; it does not treat damaging a person the same as damaging a car<\/a><br \/>\n oldId.20110118071928220<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading about this concept on Crooks and Liars and I though what if Gun Insurance worked as well as Car Insurance? (Please note the article that I used for a springboard has some very pragmatic points on responsible gun ownership but my thoughts went off on a tangent.) So off on my little &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=190797568\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What If We Required Mandatory Gun Insurance?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190797568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190797568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190797568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190797568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190797568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190797568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190797568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}