CA Mayor Seeks to Mandate Insurance,
'Violence' Tax on 'Law-Abiding' Gun Owners

"Nearly two weeks after a gunman fatally shot nine coworkers at a San Jose light rail yard, the mayor of Northern California's most populous city is proposing first-of-its-kind gun safety restrictions that would require gun owners in the city to obtain insurance and pay an annual fee to cover the cost of gun violence," CNN "reports."

I put "reports" in quotation marks because even though the story is presented as news, it's really an advocacy piece, the first telltale sign being the editorial assertion that these latest infringements have anything to do with "gun safety." To give the pretext of "balance," several paragraphs down in the article CNN quoted Gun Owners of California executive director Sam Parades raising preemption objectives, noting California law supposedly precludes cities from enacting their own "gun control" edicts. He's right, of course, but laws can be changed by Democrat majorities. Besides, Liccardo's going after bigger fish, 'the Supreme Law of the Land."

"The Second Amendment protects the right of Americans to own guns but does not require that every other taxpayer pays for that right," San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo misdirects. "Requiring gun users to pay fees will help fund critical emergency medical and police response and reduce our taxpayers' burdens."

"The reality is the public taxpayers are footing the bill for those that choose to own guns," CNN anchor Ana Cabrera dutifully quotes the mayor via Twitter. "It's appropriate that if gun owners believe in the importance of this right then they pay for the costs of the guns incur on the public." .....