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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.
"....so dangerous that their residents think they need guns."
i think its more of not wanting live where a lot of dickless live who think they need a gun to have a dick.
"The hands that help are better far than lips that pray." - Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)
So you're saying these school shootings is simply well-regulated militia men killing tyrants?
However, if we are to make the assumption that gun owners in the aggregate cannot be trusted to be 100% vigilant in securing their guns and therefore pose a risk to others, then we must assume the same of disease carriers.
And we do, which is why we quarantine dangerous infectious disease carriers, to limit their rights and freedoms, in order that they don't harm others.
Now, we need to limit the rights and freedoms of dangerous gun-owners by taking away their guns from them, so they are not afforded that sense of power that guns provide them. It is that sense of self that we have to crush.
Many of these libertarians mistakenly believe they were allowed to have guns in order to defend themselves against government. Wrong. The 2nd amendment was only designed so that government can use you to defend against foreign invaders. You were never allowed to defend yourself against government.
Government has ultimate power over you, something libertarians wishes weren't true, but unfortunately for them, will always remain the case. This is because power comes from real force, and not from a legal document. Government can kill you if it wishes. Government has the biggest guns. They are nuclear armed. You are not. Government will do what it wishes, because they can. We liberals know the power structure of society. I would encourage libertarians to understand this as well, in order to serve your own personal agenda, which everyone has. As they say, "Fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom."
We need to make sure that all these law-abiding gun-owners understand that government is their ultimate ruler.
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"