Newtown Victims' Lawsuits Curbed By NRA-Backed Law

I just got off the phone with a friend. He is a gun owner and I have no problem with that at all. I know a lot of them. I told him that there is no excuse to have an assault weapon, reminded him that real life is not like the movies. A gun owner with a handgun will not face off with someone shooting an assault weapon all the time. They are more likely to try if the shooter only has a handgun and there is an equal chance of the shooter being stopped as the hero trying to stop him. Again, a good time to remind people is we cannot assume everyone with a gun is able to shoot another person. While it is nice to live in fantasy land assuming everyone can do it, they won't.

The other point I brought up was that gun owners should have to be licensed and have to renew their license along with being insured. He said that shouldn't happen because that means more money. I said "tough shit" because look at the money it is costing these 26 families to bury their dead when all they did was show up for a day of classes at an elementary school.

Guns are dangerous and should never be taken lightly so if gun owners are serious about how valuable they are to have then let them prove it with getting a permit to learn how to use one, getting a license after they prove they know how to use it before they are able to buy it and having to renew it. Let them have to get insurance on it just like they do if they drive a car or motorcycle. Responsible gun owners should support and assault weapons ban because there is no evidence they are used for anything other than being able to shoot many bullets in a short time like the less than ten minutes it took for the shooter to kill 26 people with multiple bullets entering their bodies.

Newtown Victims' Lawsuits Curbed By NRA-Backed Law
Huffington Post
Ben Hallman
Posted: 12/18/2012

The massacre of schoolchildren in Connecticut may yield new laws to limit the availability of military-style assault weapons. But one thing the latest tragedy will likely not produce: lawsuits against the company that manufactured the gun used in the killings.

Under a controversial law Congress passed seven years ago at the urging of the National Rifle Association, gun manufacturers are explicitly shielded from lawsuits that would seek to hold them liable for crimes committed with weapons they sold.

The 2005 law has drawn attacks from gun control advocates and constitutional scholars, who portray it as a powerful insulator for gun manufacturers, protecting them from the consequences of their lethal products. Why should gun manufacturers, they ask, enjoy a special liability protection not available to other companies that make potentially lethal products?

"Gun companies should be treated the same as any other company. There is no reason to give them special exemption from litigation," said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law. "It is an outrageous piece of legislation."
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UPDATE

Connecticut Concealed Carry Permit
Requirements:
1. Is twenty-one years of age;
2. Is a legal resident of the United States;
3. Has a residence or business in the jurisdiction in which they are applying;
4. Intends to use the handgun for only lawful purposes;
5. Is a “suitable person” to receive a permit;
6. Has successfully completed an approved handgun safety course;
7. Has not been convicted of a felony or a violation of;

a. Criminal possession of a narcotic substance;
b. Criminally negligent homicide;
c. Assault in the third degree;
d. Reckless endangerment in the firstdegree;
e. Unlawful restraint in the second degree;
f. Riot in the first degree;
g. Stalking in the second degree;

8. Has not been convicted as a delinquent for the commission of a serious juvenile offense;
9. Has not been discharged from custody within the preceding twenty years after having been found not guilty of a crime by reason of mental disease or defect;
10. Is not subject to a restraining or p[protective order issued by a court in a case involving the use, attempted use or threatened use of physical force against another person;
11. Is not subject to a firearms seizure order issued for posing a risk of personal injury to self or others after a hearing; or
12. Is not prohibited from possessing a firearm for having been adjudicated as a mentally incompetent under federal law.