The NRA is Going Broke
I’m not real sure about this because I truly don’t know much about the New York insurance regulatory agencies, but any time I real “The NRA is going broke,” I smile.
The gun group has been suing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state’s financial regulators since May, claiming the NRA has been subject to a state-led “blacklisting campaign” that has inflicted “tens of millions of dollars in damages.”
Best I can figure out, New York is saying that the NRA cannot market insurance policies to pay your legal bills if you burt or kill someone with your gun. Anyway, the NRA is yelling that the sky is falling and I’m looking for my pick-axe to help it along.
You can read all about it here, but no matter, I hope they lose.
My thought to reduce guns is to require real liability insurance for every gun you own. You know, like they now require it for cars. That way, you end up with a big fight between the NRA and big insurance. I wanna watch that fight.
thoughts and prayers…..
1Fiduciary responsibility? Apparently not much in the case of the NRA. Despite significant contributions from the Russians and gun manufacturers, in 2016 they overspent by nearly $46 million. Maybe Ollie North can arrange for Dotard45 to give them a $30 million loan (of HIS money, not ours, to be clear.) Or, instead of wasting money on lawyers fighting New York state laws, why not go to one of the states where their bought politicians stay bought. Good luck actually expecting Rubio to perform, Ollie. 😀
2When NRA insurance policies are outlawed
3Only real outlaws go bankrupt
Cuomo and the New York State financial regulators have hit upon a very smart way to stop Wayne LaPierre and his boys from supporting the gun nuts and gun violence. Insurance!
4After cuddling up to the Russians and funneling their money to Dump, they just might have to face the dreadful consequences.
Couldn’t happen to a better bunch.
And when the Dems take over, the real liability insurance for gun owners will be required by law.
Only one thought and prayer left in the cupboard. I guess the christian thing is to let them have it.
5Don’t worry about the NRA. When Mexico pays for the wall, the NRA gets a piece of the action.
6I’m all for NRA being able to cover every gun owner in the country — so long as they, theirownselves, have to cover each and every incident in which someone hurts or kills someone with a gun. No getting some insurance company to cover the cost — the NRA has to do it. Period.
This is brilliant! Why didn’t we think of it? The NRA
7[How the hell did that happen? I want to finish my thought please.]
This is brilliant! Why didn’t we think of it? The NRA would be bankrupt in no time at all.
Come on NY — let the NRA dig its own grave, please.
8In a sane world weapons pushers would have to have lots of insurance. Without it they’d be outlaws, and only outlaws would have guns…
9It sounds like they’re shooting themselves in the foot.
10Sam in St Paul wins!
But I’m with you, JJ. I’ve been told that the reason we can’t make gun owners carry liability insurance is that there are so many guns out there that we can’t possibly know if the owners have enough insurance to cover all the ones they own. But I don’t care; I just want them to cover the ones that are visible (so if you’re carrying unconcealed, the officers can ticket you if you don’t have the insurance) or involved in damage or injury.
The point is to have insurance to cover the mess you made. If you keep your gun at home in a safe and I never see it and it never causes injury or damage, I don’t care if you don’t have it insured–because you’re not the problem.
11Imagine this: NRA goes bankrupt, closes up shop. 2 things result.
1. There is a gathering, probably in Aladamnbama, of mourners, a couple thousand heartbroken people wondering if they’ll have to actually earn an honest living.
2. There is another gathering led by women, probably in N.Y., California, Minnesota, Massachusetts and dozens of other states and sites within states, filled with a total of millions of celebratory people immediately feeling they’ve slain a dragon and thrilling at the increased safety and sanity they feel.
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Let’s keep at it, and make that imaginary scenario become reality.
12Debbo, I think that gathering #1 would take place in northern VA, where the NRA HQ building is. I wouldn’t mind the Fairfax County unemployment rate ticking up a little for that reason.
13The open carry exhibitionists are the low hanging fruit, easy to police just as the officer will ask you for license and insurance for a vehicle.
It doesn’t matter if they don’t have insurance for every gun they own, at first. When caught without it the gun should be impounded and only returned on production of proof of insurance and payment of the fine. Fines should go up with each successive offense.
There should also be a fine for not having the card in your possession and of course the card should have the ID number of the individual gun just like car insurance has the VIN
14Yeah, I’ll believe the NRA is completely dead a decade after they close their doors, the myriad of law suits are completed, and every last nickel is sucked out of their hides. And then the forensic finance examiners have stirred the ashes with fine tooth combs.
Money is their reason for existence, and when that’s gone, gone, gone, we can have a celebration…
15Bananas, you are spot on. Impound those uninsured guns and fine the uninsured owners. Multiple offenses should result in inability to own a gun, just like offending drivers lose their license to drive. Sounds like a plan.
16For two hundred years, the US existed just fine without the NRA. Do I care if they topple and burn? Nope.
17I think that’s “bankrupt” in the Trumpian sense, and usually involving other people’s money. Not truly bankrupt like us po folks.
18Second amendment:
19A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state…!
Cannot shed one tear. Not even going to try.
20I had a thought: Bankruptcy in the “going to divorce and the assets are being hidden in someone else’s name” sense^…
^ Like an ex-brother-in-law. Gave his money to his brother. Then the brother did a “well you gave it to *me*”…
21I quote U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA *District 13): “I guess they’re running out of rubles… I would offer the NRA my
thoughts and prayers.”
* Not my voting district, but I do love his thinking.
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