Lenders are free to require insurance. The state does not. Obviously if you don’t have a car loan then you’re all set (I lived in NH for 20 years).
No insurance means liability is on the driver. You can’t get blood from a stone. Generally people with assets and reasonable income keep insurance for this reason.
I don’t know what the legality of prohibiting an uninsured driver from NH in another state would be but in practice it’s a non-issue, because to my knowledge nobody does this (prohibits is).
All of this is why “uninsured motorist” is good insurance to have, because even where insurance is required, sometimes people don’t comply with the law.
But that’s what’s unfair. NH, and possibly other states, give their drivers a free ride and if they come to my state and hit/hurt me it’s on my dime to get justice.That’s bullshit.
Meh. I lived in NH and worked in MA. I had no kids in the MA schools, it was NH firefighters that would come if my house burned, and at most I used the roads.
I still had to pay MA income tax. I didn’t think that was fair (and indeed, when I changed to a remote position MA seemed to think I should STILL pay them).
People drive over the NH line to avoid MA sales taxes and (once upon a time) take advantage of the fact that NH didn’t prohibit liquor sales on Sundays. Lots of people thought that was unfair.
We’re a Republic, and the states are allowed latitude over quite a bit.
It’ll be a shame if the final result of all the investigation and 3rd party analysis was that
Yes, the guy was a self-declared SovCit nutbag and utterly uncooperative.
Yes, the guy had a gun in the car.
No, he made no attempt to reach for it or use it before the cops nervously opened fire.
Far better for everyone if the guy had made a fully overt unmistakable attempt to get his gun or better yet to aim it at somebody before the cops finished the job.
My bottom line: SovCits are pitifully deranged creatures whose supporting propaganda should be wound down. And they’re a very hard problem for police to handle. But shooting any of them unnecessarily plays right into their narrative of overweening illegitimate police power.
I watched the video and never saw a gun. I was impressed by the cop’s professionalism and patience up until the moment they pulled the kid from the car, and I hope the investigation proves the shooting justified.
It would also be great if the assholes who filled the kid’s head with that nonsense could somehow be held accountable.
Not justifying the shooting but …
When I was stopped on a traffic violation and the cop saw my CWP in my wallet, his hand went to his gun (but he didn’t pull it) and he asked if I had any weapons in the car. Considering how dangerous traffic stops are I considered it entirely appropriate.
So it is not difficult to see how being an asshole SovCit refusing to follow police orders with a gun and empty holster is going to get you shot.
I would modify this statement. I would say that I would go on the record as opposed to police using unjustified, especially lethal force against any party without absolute justification, even if the person is a of a group that I despise or am disgusted with.
Despite the sheer number of unjustified police assaults including defacto murders, I won’t assume THIS instance is one until a complete investigation is done, and the fact that the deceased had a holster is at least semi-solid evidence that unlike some unproven claims in other cases, the firearm at the scene was likely their own, rather than a plant.
Do I strongly suspect that the deceased was using his SovCit BS to wind up the cops, who were tense, irritated and sick of the shit and then overreacted when they noticed the firearm and attacked without true thread? Oh boy, yes, indeedy!
And, yeah, his mother seems to be another true believer (although the SC infection could have been the other way around, the article doesn’t point to a starting point for this), although based on the article @Dr.Strangelove linked, seems to be able to keep it to confrontations with cops and the authorities. Seems to be able to keep her credentials as a realtor in order, and otherwise function in society, which seems to be party of the common thread for more ‘sane’ SovCits: abide by the rules that let them make money, but the moment any acts against -them- it’s all about “your rules don’t apply!”
There’s every variant you can imagine, though I haven’t heard of an explicitly atheist one. On the other hand, there a Black supremacist version called “Moorish sovereigns.” It gets weird.
