[See NewsBusters for more.] As President Biden went to New York to tout his crime fighting plan, MSNBC's Katy Tur and Jake Ward used the occasion to hype San Jose's scheme to require gun owners to pay an annual fee and purchase liability insurance all in the name of fighting gun violence.
After Tur summarized the law, she introduced Ward who tried to claim that what San Jose is doing is no different than requiring people purchase car insurance, "Well, Katy, you and I are used to the idea as Americans that in order to drive a car we have to carry insurance, and that's, of course, in part, because we’re trying to defray the costs of more than 40,000 auto-related deaths every year. Well, firearms cause at least 45,000 deaths every year and yet until now there has not been a liability law, a liability insurance requirement around it. Well now, San Jose is experimenting with that idea."