The San Jose, California, city council voted Tuesday night to adopt a first-in-the-nation ordinance requiring most gun owners to pay a fee and carry liability insurance, measures aimed at reducing the risk of gun harm by incentivizing safer behavior and easing taxpayers of the financial burden of gun violence.
The Silicon Valley city's council split the vote into two parts: the first approving the bulk of the proposal, including the insurance provisions, and the second approving the fee provisions. The insurance vote passed 10-1, while the fees vote passed 8-3.
The ordinance must be approved next month at its final reading in order to take effect in August. Gun rights supporters have threatened to sue to block the measures if they become law.
Ahead of the vote, Democratic Mayor Sam Liccardo estimated that San Jose residents incur about $442 million in gun-related costs each year. "Certainly the Second Amendment protects every citizen's right to own a gun. It does not require taxpayers to subsidize that right," Liccardo said Monday at a news conference.
... citizens who comply with this proposed law have no fear that the City is coming to take away their guns. That is not the point of the proposed law. The point is to recover some of the estimated $442M it costs the City every year in dealing with the consequences of gun ownership.
... I can only guess that people who visit the City with firearms and are not residents have only to obey State and Federal laws.
Growth is found only in adversity.
No, it's a great asset," Biden said sarcastically into a microphone. "More inflation. What a stupid son of a bitch."
Biden doesn't want to answer any questions on inflation because the democrats are all out of lies.
First they lied and said inflation was temporary. The next lie was that inflation only hurts the rich.
There's nothing left to say except to admit that Biden is in over his head.
Growth is found only in adversity.
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More inflation. What a stupid son of a bitch."
Great Job Mr President
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