Maryland House Democrats introduced a controversial gun safety bill requiring gun owners to forfeit their ability to wear or carry without firearm liability insurance.

Introduced by Del. Terri Hill, D-Howard County, the legislation would prohibit the “wear or carry” of a gun anywhere in the state unless the individual has obtained a liability insurance policy of at least $300,000.

"A person may not wear or carry a firearm unless the person has obtained and it covered by liability insurance issued by an insurer authorized to do business in the State under the Insurance Article to cover claims for property damage, bodily injury, or death arising from an accident resulting from the person’s use or storage of a firearm or up to $300,000 for damages arising from the same incident, in addition to interest and costs,” the proposed Maryland legislation reads.

  • barsoap
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    10 months ago

    How about instead of requiring the poor to spend money on guns, you make sure that they don’t need guns to be protected?

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      10 months ago

      I agree completely. That’s a better use of time than passing a law that will have little to no positive effect on gun control and only hurts the poor.

      Just because a bill says a certain phrase doesn’t mean we need to support it. A Gun Control law that says “White people get to take black people’s guns” is not a good law. A Gun Control law that says “Gun ownership is punishable by death” is not a good law.

      A law that says “you have to buy this insurance prohibitive to poor people but not rich to people” is not a good law.

      The only thing worse than “a lot more guns” is “a lot more guns in the hands of only certain classes of people who already have too many”