Posted on 12/17/2009 12:03:34 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - Concerned about Second Amendment rights, folks bought guns and ammunition in record numbers after President Barack Obama's election.
"This is a right that a lot of politicians, a lot of lawmakers want to take away," NRA spokesperson Rachel Parsons said. "They want to curb the rights of law abiding people under a notion that it's going to reduce crime."
Now the Bloomington Herald-Times newspaper published a database of Indiana gun permit holders, searchable by which streets and cities they live.
(Excerpt) Read more at wthitv.com ...
On the other hand, CCW licensees don't like the fact they own guns advertised.
Personally, I think it's just a smear tactic by an idiotic liberal dying newspaper that's trying to jab at the constitution.
Bet it cuts down on the crime on those streets..and in those cities....Hah!
A nice little list so the bad guys know who’s unarmed.
The deal is simple ~ although a criminal might well appreciate the opportunity to rob a house that's got a weapon in it (assuming no one is home), most criminals prefer to steal cash, jewelry and highly marketable electronic devices.
Think about it ~ in Virginia you can go buy a gun. Stolen guns may be highly desired in places like New York City, but in this area they are quite common ~ just no market for the stolen ones on our street corners.
Your typical housebreaker knows that a home with a gun may present a special problem in that the homeowner might be in there lurking around quietly, and if he, the criminal, breaks in, he could get shot deader'n airy doornails!
At the same time those homes that are NOT identified as having handguns are much less of a risk.
Your local paper publishers news that your next door neighbor has a gun permit, that means your risk of being robbed just skyrocketed.
People’s Republik of Bloomington. Indiana’s version of San Francisco.
When do we get the searchable database of individuals who hold press passes for corporate and government events? These people are granted special access to secure areas as well as inside information that the unethical could use for illicit profit. The names, addresses, and employers of these people should be made known to the community so they can be examined for potential criminal activity as well as conflicts of interest. The people have a right to know.
A nice list so the ba$tard$ can break into your house while you’re at work.
From the comments on the original site it appears the libs who so hated the Patriot Act love this. I wonder how they would feel if it was a database of women who had abortions?
When this happens, the names, addresses and home phone numbers of everyone who works for the newspaper should be published on the net. Billboards also work pretty well.
This was reported before, the list is only of streets no names or addresses. I am of to minds on this, but do not see any real problems.
While the Indiana University community is largely populated by limp wristed metrosexuals, the surrounding southern Indiana countryside definitely is not.
Hoosiers may own and carry rifles and shot guns without government knowledge or regulation, may own handguns without government knowledge and may carry handguns at home or at a fixed place of business without government knowledge.
The newspaper is leading some hapless loser to spend his last dying moments on somebody's kitchen floor, watching his life ooze out what used to be his chest, because he didn't know that everybody in southern Indiana is armed and willing to kill to protect home and family.
When do we get the searchable database of individuals who hold press passes for corporate and government events? These people are granted special access to secure areas as well as inside information that the unethical could use for illicit profit. The names, addresses, and employers of these people should be made known to the community so they can be examined for potential criminal activity as well as conflicts of interest. The people have a right to know.”
Exactly!!!
If the newspaper publishes names and addresses of law-abiding gun permit holders, maybe its time the NRA or some other group publicizes the names and addresses of the reporters and editorial writers of this rag.
Part of the aim of the publicatiơn of the database is t surely to remove the neighborhood protection that unknown incidence of gun ownership gives by locating all of them for the benefit of B&E men who worry about job safety. But some folks in that trade will consider that if registered gun ownership is widespread then unregistered gun ownership also exists in higher quantities. If 15% of the houses in the neighborhood are on the list there are a few more that are not on the list.
The motivation to buy guns from dealers and get CCW is also the motivation to get one's guns privately with no record for Hussein's Civilian Defense Force to use for confiscation.
I assure you that they suffer under no such illusion!
They wish to eliminate the power of the people to reform their government through the means reccomended by the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
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