The thing I always tell people is that this joke of a bill was being introduced, and some people from the MA insurance lobby came out and said that "This was a bad idea and that none of their
members had any intention of underwriting any of these kinds of policies" I wish I could find the cite, but I remember reading this in the Herald or something like that, like 2 or 3 years ago.
If the people who sell liability insurance think its a f***ing stupid idea, it's probably a f***ing stupid idea.
At a bare minimum it ends up attaching a political component to the product which didn't exist, or at least not nearly to this degree, before.
And this is even before getting to the constitutional components of it which is obvious.... requiring insurance, a background check, any of that BS, is
basically a 2A infringement and there's no way around it. If they want it to be not infringing, they'll have to repeal 2A.
I would also add- "Then why is this bill, having been filed like 12 times (linsky files this like once a year, for the same reason a dog licks its balls) in an all liberal dominated state, with a shitty governor who would gleefully sign off on it, for the past 20 years, why has it never passed? Because even other liberals think its a stupid f***ing idea. "
-Mike