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	<title>Comments on: Florida Lawmakers Take Aim At Insurers Over Guns</title>
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		<title>By: David Huie Green</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Huie Green</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2014 22:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>REGARDING:
&quot; Matt Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach, said Floridians have a constitutional right to bear arms, and even one case of insurers taking action because of gun ownership is “too much.”

&quot; “How much discrimination based on the exercise of a constitutional right is tolerable?” Gaetz asked. &quot;

This is well-intended but stupid.

People&#039;s right to keep and bear arms doesn&#039;t mean others don&#039;t have the right to react to its exercise. It doesn&#039;t matter if homes are safer or more dangerous with weapons on hand; businesses should be free to sell or not sell insurance however they wish just as long as it is spelled out ahead of time. If some try to punish your choices, buy from some other. If you think all insurance companies are out to get you, you may be losing contact with reality or it may be time to form your own insurance company so you can get all the business the others are rejecting or overcharging about.

We SHOULD insist government stay out of our business as much as possible, but every time some group figures they can use the power of government to push their agenda, they decide government interference is reasonable in this case rather than recognizing every time we justify the majority telling the minority what to do, we risk becoming a minority at the wrong end of the process sometime in the future with the majority saying, “You figured it was okay last time, suck it up and take it this time.”

David for a free people</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>REGARDING:<br />
&#8221; Matt Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach, said Floridians have a constitutional right to bear arms, and even one case of insurers taking action because of gun ownership is “too much.”</p>
<p>&#8221; “How much discrimination based on the exercise of a constitutional right is tolerable?” Gaetz asked. &#8221;</p>
<p>This is well-intended but stupid.</p>
<p>People&#8217;s right to keep and bear arms doesn&#8217;t mean others don&#8217;t have the right to react to its exercise. It doesn&#8217;t matter if homes are safer or more dangerous with weapons on hand; businesses should be free to sell or not sell insurance however they wish just as long as it is spelled out ahead of time. If some try to punish your choices, buy from some other. If you think all insurance companies are out to get you, you may be losing contact with reality or it may be time to form your own insurance company so you can get all the business the others are rejecting or overcharging about.</p>
<p>We SHOULD insist government stay out of our business as much as possible, but every time some group figures they can use the power of government to push their agenda, they decide government interference is reasonable in this case rather than recognizing every time we justify the majority telling the minority what to do, we risk becoming a minority at the wrong end of the process sometime in the future with the majority saying, “You figured it was okay last time, suck it up and take it this time.”</p>
<p>David for a free people</p>
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		<title>By: K.</title>
		<link>http://www.northescambia.com/2014/04/florida-lawmakers-take-aim-at-insurers-over-guns/comment-page-1#comment-264521</link>
		<dc:creator>K.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2014 02:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>given that insurance companies are designed to eliminate the risk to their corporate managed hedge funds payed for by your insurance premiums, they will consider gun ownership a threat due to the immense possibility of a wrongful death lawsuit which would result if a gun were ever used in the home and it resulted in a death.

this is essentially a bill designed to stop a back door attempt to control gun ownership by using insurance companies to blackmail homeowners into giving up guns in order to save money.

our right to own guns would exist whether or not the 2nd amendment existed. this to me means the insurance companies get zero say in the matter.  pass the bill.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>given that insurance companies are designed to eliminate the risk to their corporate managed hedge funds payed for by your insurance premiums, they will consider gun ownership a threat due to the immense possibility of a wrongful death lawsuit which would result if a gun were ever used in the home and it resulted in a death.</p>
<p>this is essentially a bill designed to stop a back door attempt to control gun ownership by using insurance companies to blackmail homeowners into giving up guns in order to save money.</p>
<p>our right to own guns would exist whether or not the 2nd amendment existed. this to me means the insurance companies get zero say in the matter.  pass the bill.</p>
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		<title>By: DeeJay</title>
		<link>http://www.northescambia.com/2014/04/florida-lawmakers-take-aim-at-insurers-over-guns/comment-page-1#comment-264484</link>
		<dc:creator>DeeJay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Paranoid right wingers solving problems that don&#039;t exist.  How about putting some of that time into extending Medicaid?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Paranoid right wingers solving problems that don&#8217;t exist.  How about putting some of that time into extending Medicaid?</p>
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		<title>By: clint eastwood</title>
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		<dc:creator>clint eastwood</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Democrat/Progressive/Socialist Party is constantly trying to uncover who and who does not owns firearms.  
For what is worth...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Democrat/Progressive/Socialist Party is constantly trying to uncover who and who does not owns firearms.<br />
For what is worth&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Jane</title>
		<link>http://www.northescambia.com/2014/04/florida-lawmakers-take-aim-at-insurers-over-guns/comment-page-1#comment-264378</link>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Any law protecting our constitutional rights is good these days when so many laws are made to lower our rights given us by the Constitution. Look at the right of Eminate Domain being used to allow the government to take someone&#039;s home/property to build condominiums, etc. That law was not designed for that purpose!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Any law protecting our constitutional rights is good these days when so many laws are made to lower our rights given us by the Constitution. Look at the right of Eminate Domain being used to allow the government to take someone&#8217;s home/property to build condominiums, etc. That law was not designed for that purpose!</p>
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		<title>By: No Excuses</title>
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		<dc:creator>No Excuses</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 19:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If anything, insurance rates should be LOWER for those who own guns and choose to keep them and the ammunition responsibly in their homes.  They can chase off the bad guys and defend themselves.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If anything, insurance rates should be LOWER for those who own guns and choose to keep them and the ammunition responsibly in their homes.  They can chase off the bad guys and defend themselves.</p>
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		<title>By: E</title>
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		<dc:creator>E</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If the democrats see no problem now, then pass the bill now and avoid any problems later. A couple of minutes and it’s done. Why do they insist on fighting everything. Here and Washington. Makes no sense.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If the democrats see no problem now, then pass the bill now and avoid any problems later. A couple of minutes and it’s done. Why do they insist on fighting everything. Here and Washington. Makes no sense.</p>
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