A sensible gun policy

In a recent ruling, the Supreme Court's extending of gun rights across the nation has shown that it will never seek a middle ground. Some of the Justices could care little about fairness or public safety. They are puppets of the National Rifle Association and lock-step proponents of a Constitutional amendment written before there were urban areas, before there were police departments, long before there were automatic weapons and at a time when the British enemy lived among us.

Times have changed, but the Supreme Court refuses to acknowledge it.

Being practical and pragmatic, I have come to the conclusion that to fight for gun control is a losing proposition. I  suggest we take a different approach.

I think we have to get the point across to the NRA that we do not want to take their guns away. They can have them. All we want to do is make it safer.

One way to do that is to make sure that all guns are insured. We make people insure their cars. That way in an accident the injured have redress. The insurance industry welcomed that initiative.

Why are they not fighting for guns to be insured? They are afraid of their friends in the NRA. But if we make gun owners carry gun insurance they will be more careful with their guns.

I do not understand why Mayor Bloomberg has not attempted to pass a law requiring guns to be insured. I think he could get it through the state legislature.