San Jose Approves First U.S. Law Mandating Liability Insurance for Gun Owners

 

The San Jose, Calif., City Council has taken a major step toward passage of a law that would require gun-owning residents of city to hold liability insurance.

The law would also require gun owners to pay a $25 annual fee, to be collected by a non-profit and disbursed to other organizations toward gun safety training, domestic violence prevention, suicide prevention, and mental health services. With an estimated 50,000 to 55,000 gun owners in San Jose, the fee could bring in roughly $1.3 million, the San Jose Spotlight reported.

...Under the law, proposed liability insurance would cover damages from “negligent or accidental use of the firearm.”

Mayor Sam Liccardo proposed the legislation in 2019 after a shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival...MORE

But will it work? Even the Mayor says no, it won't:

“When we think about the horrible mass shootings, I don’t pretend to know that we could have stopped it or not. But if in fact, we could have delivered some mental health services, there may have been a chance,” Liccardo told reporters.

However, Liccardo also acknowledged that “this won’t stop mass shootings and keep bad people from committing violent crime.”

 If this will not stop mass shootings or violent gun crimes, why pass it?

Please follow the money, which will be "collected by a non-profit and disbursed to other organizations toward gun safety training, domestic violence prevention, suicide prevention, and mental health services."

This is a mandatory fundraiser for these organizations, most of whom lobby for more gun control. The gun owner will be funding programs that have nothing to do with gun safety and which will benefit gun control advocates.

This is a trick they have learned from the enviros, who are masters at getting administrative and court fines diverted to their own organizations.