The new alternative to gun control

Time to give up on gun control and move to gun liability insurance. Just as we do with cars. Think about it: we have the same number of guns per capita as we do cars--880 per 1000 people. They also kill the same number of people -- 33,000 a year in the U.S.. Pres.Obama said about gun control that "the politics in this town foreclose a lot of those avenues." What we need is a public/private partnership on the issue, as in Obamacare, or as was done by Abraham Lincoln to build the transcontinental railroad, or as we do to manage the dangers of car ownership -- require gun liability insurance. Private, professional insurers can analyze the risk of gun owners, assess an appropriate premium, and pay for damages far better than the government can; the government just has to require it.