Charlie Kirk

Charlie Kirk was assassinated because gun violence is core to our American way of life.  We are addicted to it.  We have a shooting every 1.8 minutes.  We can’t live without 30 Sandy Hooks a day.

What’s crazy is that Kirk thought our 1.8 minute addiction is OK.  He said:  "I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.  That is a prudent deal.  It is rational."

Why, given his reasoning, he placed himself so publicly in line for the next 1.8 minute event, we really don’t know.  But we do know that he thought that the resulting life of horror for his wife and children would be “worth it,” “prudent” and “rational”.  Weird.

Kirk’s strange thinking didn’t end there.  He said:  “Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised.”  Like his.

Kirk spoke like the addict that he was.

And died like it.

This is America.

But it doesn’t have to be.  Let’s imagine that Kirk was capable of thinking the process through.  He would have reached the same prudent and rational solution Publius published nearly a decade ago.

It’s simple.  Americans can have all the guns they want.  Of any type they want.  So long as each gun carries insurance just like a car.  Minimum liability per gun:  $1 million. The more guns you have, the more you pay.  The more powerful the gun, the higher your liability and the higher your premium.  Open carry?  Just pay.

Anyone found with an uninsured gun gets a mandatory twenty years for each offense.  Five uninsured guns gets you a century in the slammer.

Insurance companies will police gun ownership.  You won’t be able to buy or sell a weapon anywhere or anyway without getting insurance.  Insurance companies will determine the conditions of ownership as they do with cars—like who can drive and who cannot—and the standards of owner training and gun management.

Make a mistake and the liability bar will eat you alive.

Here’s where our next national addiction steps in.  Money.  We like money a lot.

Whoever gets into the gun insurance business first and fastest has a shot at beating out Walmart as the biggest company in the world.  

 The best part?  Taxpayers don’t spend a dime!  We get to keep our guns and cut crime at no cost.

Let’s face it, we will never get over our lust for gun violence.  We are who we are.  But we can make a hell of a lot of money managing our addiction.

Makes a lot of sense, right?  And that’s why you won’t hear a word about this from anyone in political leadership.  Not even a syllable.  

Like Kirk showed, our 1.8 minute addiction is real deep.