John Delaney's Plan To Stop Mass Shootings: Make Mass Shootings 'Cost Prohibitive'

John Delaney and his ability to be shamelessly and wholeheartedly beholden to private insurance companies have found something new to exploit: the two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, both of which happened at the beginning of August just hours apart and left 32 people dead.

Delaney was given ample time during the past two Democratic primary debates to lay out his proposals, in which he was laughably seen as the rational moderate, when in reality he was just arguing for the status quo. Apart from arguing against any real or meaningful change, Delaney's most memorable debate moment was when Bernie Sanders rebutted his ridiculous anti-Medicare For All statements with “Well, you’re wrong!” Which drew a large cheer from the crowd.

Delaney’s big new idea to end gun violence, which you can see pictured above, is to require “liability insurance” to purchase a gun - an idea which is comical and was mocked in the replies to his tweet.

To be fair to John Delaney and his 1980’s brand of politics, you can kind of see what he’s aiming for: liability insurance which would fluctuate based on mental health history, racist political beliefs - which they could just lie about - what the gun would be used for (obviously they wouldn’t say to commit a mass shooting).

The problem with this and Delaney’s thinking on many issues is his being bound to for-profit insurance companies. After all, this is how Delaney made his $92.6M net worth.

Back in 1993 John Delaney co-founded Health Care Financial Partners, who used their vast amounts of money to grant loans to smaller-sized healthcare providers who couldn’t receive a loan from the large banks. Delaney’s only concern from then to now has been one thing: profit. Take this quote of Delaney’s from a 1998 interview with National Real Estate Investor, “But make no mistake: Delaney may enjoy financing the little guys but he wants to challenge the big guys in his field.” The quote shows that Delaney was only concerned with how much money he could make from the healthcare industry, which is why he’s reluctant to want to change the system because it's what made him and his buddies rich.

Back to current day John Delaney and his ridiculous gun control proposal, it was rightly mocked in the replies to his own tweet and only proposes more questions: What about a shooter who uses a family members gun? How would this close the gun-show loophole? What about the El Paso shooter who didn’t have a history of hate crimes? How does this clamp down on illegal gun sales in the US?

Delaney has spent his whole adult life making money from things which shouldn’t even be for profit in the first place, it’s not a shock that many of his other ideas revolve around helping insurance companies make even more money as it is who John Delaney has and will always be.