NY Newspaper sparks outrage for publishing names, addresses of gun owners

Quote from gunnerusa : Because there are people who claim to be proud of having medical procedures such as abortions, tooth extractions, and tumor excisions? Frankly, I haven't seen people claim to be proud of needing basic medical care, but I see lots of people claiming to be proud gun owners.

You've seen some people proud of exercising their rights. So that means their names & home addresses should be published in the newspaper? Yes, it's public record, but criminals probably aren't going to go to city hall (typically near the police station) & figure out how to compile the info. Centralizing it for them and dropping it on their doorstep is just stupid. What are you accomplishing? Suggesting that the 90 million law-abiding gun owners in this country might be closet sociopaths? So might everyone else.

If you're against "gun violence" and guns getting into the wrong hands, you just advertised to the violent criminals where they can steal more of them (and later commit violent acts with).

If you're against crime, you just advertised to criminals where they can exercise their crimes with minimal risk of being shot (i.e. the houses w/o the guns).

This is the idiocy typical of the gun control lobby. And people bash the NRA... They don't post a list of "disarmed homes" on the map for burglars, rapists, murderers, etc. to peruse. They could, using the same tactics as this paper, but they don't. The newspaper just did, though, effectively. Morons.

Quote from Deusxmachina : People can be for the right to do drugs but be against actually doing them. People can be for the right to vote for douchebag politicians but be against actually voting for them. etc.

Quote from TRNT : In fact many of those are published by he local newspaper at the time. Hmm... don't you feel like a victim?

And many of them are already published on the internet in databases that are open to the general public. Once I was bored and decided to find out who owned my apartment building. All I had to do was go to the county clerk's website, create an account (basically, just my yahoo email and a password), and from there I could find a wealth of information, either searching by the address of a property, or by name.

And when my car was hit by a DUI driver, I was able to get the police report scanned and emailed to me for $5 (you didn't have to be directly involved in the case to be able to get the report. You just had to ask for it). That gave me the girl's name, and the first result that came up on google was her booking photo.

When my dad wanted to subdivide a piece of property he owned into three parcels to build houses, the entire application process was available to the general public online.

Quote from gunnerusa : And many of them are already published on the internet in databases that are open to the general public. Once I was bored and decided to find out who owned my apartment building. All I had to do was go to the county clerk's website, create an account (basically, just my yahoo email and a password), and from there I could find a wealth of information, either searching by the address of a property, or by name. And when my car was hit by a DUI driver, I was able to get the police report scanned and emailed to me for $5 (you didn't have to be directly involved in the case to be able to get the report. You just had to ask for it). That gave me the girl's name, and the first result that came up on google was her booking photo. When my dad wanted to subdivide a piece of property he owned into three parcels to build houses, the entire application process was available to the general public online.

Hear hear.

However, if I were you I would not mention my dad on this board else you will be called a hippie juvenile on dope and on welfare and living on the top of your parent's garage. Some posters here are just that bitter.

Quote from gunnerusa : And many of them are already published on the internet in databases that are open to the general public. Once I was bored and decided to find out who owned my apartment building. All I had to do was go to the county clerk's website, create an account (basically, just my yahoo email and a password), and from there I could find a wealth of information, either searching by the address of a property, or by name. And when my car was hit by a DUI driver, I was able to get the police report scanned and emailed to me for $5 (you didn't have to be directly involved in the case to be able to get the report. You just had to ask for it). That gave me the girl's name, and the first result that came up on google was her booking photo. When my dad wanted to subdivide a piece of property he owned into three parcels to build houses, the entire application process was available to the general public online.

As stated before- all this kind of info is freely available to anyone, why isn't there a similar database listing everyone on the government tit??

If anyone can see all the property someone owns and what it is valued at, why can't anyone see how many benefits a person is receiving and what the monthly $$ total is?

So we should be able to FOIA people's income tax records and publish them online.

That's a GREAT idea.

Quote from Dumpsterdiver : So we should be able to FOIA people's income tax records and publish them online. That's a GREAT idea.

so many kept crying for Romney's

Quote from empiretc : so many kept crying for Romney's

There is something very wrong in the government providing information which infringes on your privacy.

Especially when the information in the first place infringes on your constitutional rights.

Rep. proposes to make gun permit holders' info public [wtnh.com]

Twenty years ago state lawmakers made the names and addresses of gun owners confidential, available only to law enforcement and the Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services.

The longtime co-chair of the legislature's Public Safety Committee, Democratic State Representative Steve Dargan of West Haven, long considered a friend by gun owners, is proposing that the gun owners confidentiality law be overturned that the names and addresses be made public.

"My bill, or my thought process, is not to hurt any law abiding person, but just to continue that discussion," Dargan said.

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Continue the discussion? I didn't know there was a discussion regarding this - you know - because the first thing this guy did was to propose a bill, not hold a town hall meeting or something.

Quote from Dr. J : Rep. proposes to make gun permit holders' info public [wtnh.com] Twenty years ago state lawmakers made the names and addresses of gun owners confidential, available only to law enforcement and the Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services. The longtime co-chair of the legislature's Public Safety Committee, Democratic State Representative Steve Dargan of West Haven, long considered a friend by gun owners, is proposing that the gun owners confidentiality law be overturned that the names and addresses be made public. "My bill, or my thought process, is not to hurt any law abiding person, but just to continue that discussion," Dargan said. ------------ Continue the discussion? I didn't know there was a discussion regarding this - you know - because the first thing this guy did was to propose a bill, not hold a town hall meeting or something.

I hope they fail miserably.

Quote from Deusxmachina : People can be for the right to do drugs but be against actually doing them. People can be for the right to vote for douchebag politicians but be against actually voting for them. etc.

Ok, you win. I can't argue that one.

Quote from Dumpsterdiver : So we should be able to FOIA people's income tax records and publish them online. That's a GREAT idea.

I think it would be very interesting to see our elected politicians returns.

Quote from onscreen : I hope they fail miserably.

Agreed

Quote from Elmer : Oh, the irony...... http://news.yahoo.com/ny-newspape...nance.html So a few negative emails and Caryn wants loaded guns all around her. But if those without the means to hire armed muscle obtain their own means of self defense, even those with far more real threats than emails, Caryn wants to violate their privacy and endanger their lives. Like I've said before, gun control is all about elitism..... .

Rofl.