A Memphis newspaper has posted a searchable database of Tennesseans with permits to carry concealed handguns, upsetting firearms owners and igniting a debate on whether such information should be available to the public.
Why?
What about here in California, where the names and addresses of those who supported Proposition 8 (overturning court-ordered gay marriage) were published?
If you try to justify these (because you're a leftie), would you also justify publishing the names/addresses of law enforcement officials, or of teachers, or of union leaders?
This tactic is shameful, and would be called so by anyone with any decency.
3 comments:
you're wrong on this one. Donations to political campaigns are part of public record. Its a matter of keeping politicians and causes honest.
Carrying handguns has nothing to do with elections or fair political practice.
And besides, if I carried a gun, I wouldn't be so afraid of people messing with me. And I certainly don't want to mess with someone who has a gun!
It's a part of public record, but I don't see any benefit to publishing the names and addresses of private citizens. The information has always been kept, but never before published in the press and on the internet. It's a tactic designed to intimidate, pure and simple.
If someone has a concealed carry permit, and that person has been identified publicly, that kinda defeats the purpose of keeping it concealed, doesn't it.
I think you might be letting your personal feelings get in the way of your better judgement here, pomo. Should those Prop 8 supporters post the names and addresses of the executive board of the CTA, which donated so much money to the anti-8 campaign? Of course not.
A list of concealed carry holders is a shopping list for criminals pomophrophet. Also, since you obviously don't carry a concealed firearm your laboring under some serious misconceptions.
A concealed carry holder, who isn't a shmuck, doesn't want anyone to know they carry. What's the point? There's no advantage to revealing the fact and a number of serious disadvantages.
To anyone who is familiar with the realities of legal concealed carry your statement - "I wouldn't be so afraid of people messing with me" - is evidence of your ignorance.
You don't carry a concealed firearm because you don't want to be "messed with" but because you may be find yourself in a situation in which deadly force is necessary. Anyone with a lick of sense goes to great lengths to avoid such situations and only when those lengths aren't far enough, and there's no other legitimate recourse, does the use of a firearm become legally and morally acceptable.
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