Posted on 01/24/2014 1:01:03 PM PST by Timber Rattler
A national newspaper chain with nearly 100 publications and 1.6 million readers is considering building state-by-state databases on concealed weapons permit holders, according to an internal e-mail.
The plan, laid out in an email from a top editor at North Carolina-based Civitas Media, could be similar to a controversial project a New York state newspaper carried out in 2012 which included an online map that identified gun owners in two counties by name and address. Civitas' database project was detailed the plan in a Jan. 19 e-mail to newsrooms in 11 states, including Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania.
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Most of the company’s publications are rural daily and weekly newspapers in the South and Midwest. Most of their readers would have a harsh response. I’m sure those papers are already hearing from angry subscriber.
Civitas Media, according to its website, employs more than 1,400 people and publishes 35 daily and 63 weekly publications for a combined circulation of more than 1.6 million.
can we say database?
Once Obamacare is well up and running someone will hack the records and we’ll have an abortion and rape victim database...the stupefied masses will find it certainly more selatiuos than the concealed carry database. Just wait.
I wonder if a newspaper someday will post the names of everyone who had an abortion in the last 10 years.
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