(Curtis Compton | Atlanta Journal-Constitution | The Associated Press) In this April 27, 2017 file photo, an attendee passes by a large banner advertising a handgun during the National Rifle Association convention at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. An insurance policy offered by the NRA is under scrutiny by insurance regulators after gun-control groups raised questions about how it’s being marketed. Carry Guard insurance was launched earlier this year by the nation’s most powerful gun lobbying group and is being promoted to gun-owners as needed coverage to help cover civil and criminal legal costs in cases when they shoot someone in self-defense. Gun-control advocates have called it “murder insurance,” because they believe it would lull gun owners into a false sense of security and encourage them to shoot rather than try to avoid confrontations.
I think it is time for the NRA to send its vote of thanks to everyone, Republican or Democrat, and especially the president, and be sure and tell them that their checks will soon be sent to them.
Why doesn’t anyone in this country realize that the only cure to the national gun problem would be to renegotiate the Second Amendment to the Constitution? Trouble is, “They should have done it yesterday.”
Joe Wood, Salt Lake City
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