New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map

New submitter Isaac-1 writes "First it was the sex offenders being mapped using public records, now it seems to be gun owners — I wonder who will be next? It seems a newspaper in New York has published an interactive map with the names and addresses of people with [handguns]." It's happened before: In 2007, Virginia's Roanoke Times raised the ire of many gun owners by publishing a database of Virginia's gun permit holders that it assembled based on public records inquiries. (The paper later withdrew that database.) Similarly, WRAL-TV in North Carolina published a database earlier this year with searchable map of (partially redacted) information about permit holders in that state, and Philadelphia made the news for a similar disclosure — complete with interactive map and addresses — of hundreds of gun permit applicants and holders.

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Re:So Proud of Gun Ownership

[mozumder]

By "well-regulated militia" the founding fathers meant that individual citizens are trained to use guns, to secure a free state. Free from what? Tyranny and fascism.

Incorrect. The founding fathers supported Tyranny and Fascism. They weren't against it. This is why they supported the Whiskey Rebellion.

The real purpose of the 2nd amendment is to have government use you as tools to defend its powers against foreign invaders.

I hope everyone understands that, the only people that have "freedom", are the people with unlimited power. And, power doesn't come from legal documents.. it comes from actual force. That means its the people the biggest guns with real power. In modern society, that highest power is the nuclear armed US Federal Government.

Libertarians absolutely hate the idea that someone else could have more power than them, but unfortunately, that's how the power-structure of society is. Yet, for some reason they seem to think of themselves as ultimately powerful? Maybe they were bred with too much precious snowflake self-esteem development by their mommies while growing up.. who knows? But it's a delusion common to all these libertarians..

I guess it's the political equivalent of the Dunning-Kreuger effect, where instead of stupid people not knowing their own stupidity, we have weak people not knowing their own weaknesses.

Smart people know their weaknesses. This is why they say "Fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom"