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Topic: Insurance as Punishment |
Insurance as Punishment
Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto
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Posted By:Desert Fox, 2/7/2013 5:12:23 PM
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| If you can´t force people to do what you want, force them to buy insurance: That seems to be the strategy of the liberal left in the Obama era. We refer not only to the ObamaCare health-insurance mandate but to the latest bright idea under consideration in mostly Democrat-dominated state capitals. "Democratic lawmakers proposed legislation Tuesday that would require California gun owners to buy liability insurance to cover damages or injuries caused by their weapons," FoxNews.com reports. The idea isn´t brand new:
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Coy860, 2/7/2013 5:14:50 PM (No. 9164415)
The government attacks on Liberty are coming daily.
Be ever vigilant.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
krause, 2/7/2013 5:44:21 PM (No. 9164440)
I think this will work. I went out and talked to some gangbangers, criminals, and some mentally ill. They all said that they would get the insurance. They wanted the family of the people they killed to have an easier time grieving. They really cared about the survivors. They were going to talk to their local democrat politician to see if they can get the insurance companies to cover it free of charge. The dem said he could make that happen. Of course, the dem told them that they would have to vote for him in order to get this done.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Attila DiMedici, 2/7/2013 5:44:34 PM (No. 9164442)
In the section about the use of personal pronouns, Taranto misses something of the type he usually catches. He quotes David Brooks as saying that he has always assumed that people who use personal pronouns more are more egotistical than those who use them less. Then Brooks says that studies show that people use personal pronouns more as they lose confidence.
The thing is that being egotistical is not the same as being confident. As a matter of fact, my experience is that most people who are egotistical are not confident and most people who are confident are not egotistical.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
veritas, 2/7/2013 5:52:52 PM (No. 9164454)
Uhhh, when 1 in 7 does not even have car liability insurance, and there´s a daily possibility of being nabbed [at 1 in 7, states ought to be doing serious enforcement efforts!], this is clearly at best another stupidly-fruitless "do something" exercise. However, as we all know, it´s all about suppressing private firearms ownership among the law-abiding.
So -- does California lack chickens, tar, and fence rails?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ScarletPimpernel, 2/7/2013 6:05:39 PM (No. 9164476)
Very good, #2!
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