Thought experiment: If NEW gun purchases with high capacity clips required insurance, the way autos do, would that effectively price most young males out of the market because of risk? We'd still have plenty of weapons, but mostly owned by the safest demographics. Discuss.
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Wrong - uninsured drivers in the SE of the US are 1 in 4 to 1 in 8 of drivers. No friction here with car insurance!
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What makes you think they'll buy insurance?
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....will have an impact on youth suicide? If suicide by gun goes down does suicide by other means go up?
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The impact on suicide would be that they'd go back to bridges if unable to obtain a gun. But at least we'd all feel better about ourselves I guess.
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High capacity magazine insurance will have zero impact on suicide.
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But gun insurance in general could, if baked into the cost of the gun, and priced high enough for riskier groups, reduce the number of easy options when someone is at risk. I'm not saying we should do that. Just saying friction always works at least a little.
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So if cost vs benefit is clearly not at issue, then why not require people who buy alcohol and cigarettes also buy insurance against their future health problems or their future stupid drunken acts?
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