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San Jose approves gun control plan requiring gun owners to carry liability insurance, pay annual fee

San Jose approves gun control plan requiring gun owners to carry liability insurance, pay annual fee
Yes, esparza. Yes. In a unanimous vote, the SAN Jose City Council approved first of its kind, gun safety measures. The first would require every gun owner to have liability insurance coverage for their firearms. The second requires gun owners to pay an annual fee to compensate taxpayers for the public cost of responding to gun related injuries and deaths. It's also the case that while the Second Amendment certainly protects the right to own a gun, does not mandate that we subsidize as taxpayers subsidize the possession of those guns during the virtual meetings, public comment. Gun rights advocates said it would punish law abiding gun owners. I believe these mandates are unconstitutional because they impose a financial burden on only a subset of the population, which is discriminatory. Others worried infringes on the Second Amendment, we feel very strongly that it is clearly unconstitutional for the government at any level to require some sort of a feed Before somebody can exercise an enumerated constitutional right. New data from an independent nonprofit organization shows gun violence incidents in San Jose cost taxpayers $442 million dollars annually. The vote comes in the wake of the vita mass shooting that took the lives of nine people in May, supporters say the measures are a step forward. There is no one law or policy that is going to solve the public health crisis. That is the gun violence epidemic. However, a holistic and proactive approach, like the proposed common sense measures will reduce gun harm in SAn Jose.
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San Jose approves gun control plan requiring gun owners to carry liability insurance, pay annual fee
The San Jose City Council unanimously approved new gun control measures in a vote Tuesday night.With the Bay Area's largest city still reeling from last month's shooting at the VTA Guadalupe light rail yard, leaders there are taking more steps to reduce gun violence and the toll that it takes on the public.Tuesday evening, the San Jose City Council voted to approve a proposal that will require all gun owners citywide to carry liability insurance, and to pay an annual fee that would go toward supporting emergency and police services.Officials say San Jose is the first city in the state to implement such laws."We've got to do more to ensure that burdens are property borne by those who choose to exercise their right to own a gun and to ensure that those fees and insurance requirements will incentivize safer gun ownership," said San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo.

The San Jose City Council unanimously approved new gun control measures in a vote Tuesday night.

With the Bay Area's largest city still reeling from last month's shooting at the VTA Guadalupe light rail yard, leaders there are taking more steps to reduce gun violence and the toll that it takes on the public.

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Tuesday evening, the San Jose City Council voted to approve a proposal that will require all gun owners citywide to carry liability insurance, and to pay an annual fee that would go toward supporting emergency and police services.

Officials say San Jose is the first city in the state to implement such laws.

"We've got to do more to ensure that burdens are property borne by those who choose to exercise their right to own a gun and to ensure that those fees and insurance requirements will incentivize safer gun ownership," said San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo.