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Posted on 12/02/2009 8:31:45 AM PST by neverdem
| Bloomington, Indiana Herald-Times Treats Law-Abiding Gun Owners like Registered Sex Offenders! |
| Tuesday, December 01, 2009 |
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On November 30, 2009, the Bloomington Herald-Times made the following announcement: “This week, HeraldTimesOnline.com will launch its new gun permit database. You’ll be able to search gun permit records by county, city or town and street." The Herald-Times has begun receiving calls and emails, and their response is a defiant defense of their online gun permit database. Anyone who visits the newspaper website will be able to search the number of permits on a given street or neighborhood. Although at this point the names and house numbers are not listed, the newspaper’s website treats law-abiding Indiana gun owners like sex offenders on a searchable database. It is NRA's firm belief that there is no public good served by the publishing or cataloguing private citizens’ gun ownership information, and that more harm is done by such an action. Law-abiding Hoosiers should not be subjected to the same treatment as sex offenders, and if the newspaper won’t listen to their constituents and customers, then NRA Members and Indiana gun owners should send a financial message by cancelling their subscriptions to the Bloomington Herald-Times. Please contact the Bloomington Herald-Times to respectfully voice your displeasure at the irresponsible action the newspaper has made. Scott Schurz, Sunday Hoosier Times/Editor-in-Chief E. Mayer Maloney Jr., Publisher Bob Zaltsberg, Editor |
Thanks for your questions. If a person has a personal protection permit, then the person can carry his or her handgun with them into public places where it is not outlawed by state or federal law — such as a U.S. Post Office building or school. The permits only cover handguns and not long rifles or shotguns for example.
State code doesn't specify how the handgun has to be carried — concealed or not. Many of the handgun owners I spoke with said they usually carry their handgun concealed, but occasionally open carry, which means the handgun is visible to others.
Wow! This is completely cool! Now I not only know which houses to avoid breaking into to avoid getting shot in the ass, but if I need to steal some guns, this lets me know where to go if I want to get them illegally!
I love government beauracracy! Especially liberal government beauracracy!
Isn’t that the truth? Guys drive by a nice house, see a flat screen TV through the window and figure there’s more goodies inside. Get the name off the mailbox, run it in Google to confirm the homeowner’s name, run the name through the Herald-Times database and voila! They aren’t licensed to carry...
Liberals love to aid crooks, don’t they?
If someone breaks into your house to steal your guns, hold the editors responsible.If they kill a member of your family to steal your guns, guess who dropped a dime on you?
Seems that the issue is that the information is publicly available, rather than the fact that it was put in a convenient form by a newspaper.
Sounds like an excellent reason to get rid of the idiotic permit process and just let people carry arms via the Second Amendment.
Question: If I’ve already gone through a federal background check to purchase a handgun, why do I then need to have the permission of local government to actually use it or carry it on my person?
DKC, Ellettsville
Thank God folks in Bloomington have the right to walk around in short sleeves.
Yeah, but come 2012 there won’t be bullets available.
If I lived in Bloomington, I'd make it a priority to get a permit even if I didn't intend to carry.
"This week, HeraldTimesOnline.com will launch its new gun permit database. You’ll be able to search gun permit records by county, city or town and street."Thanks neverdem.
So a woman has a right to privacy if she decides to get an abortion, but I don’t have a right to privacy if I decide to buy a handgun. Maybe the law requiring the obtainment of a permit should be challenged on the basis that it violates one’s right to privacy.
The paper is not going to list names or address only the street. Sounds ok for privacy, but I would prefer that nothing be posted at all.
Better that than having to bear a bare bear...
Trying to find a “silver lining”....
If I were investigating a neighborhood to purchase a home I could access the database and see if a particular area had lots of registered users.
Zero users = liberal nest of vermin
Mass users = a polite society.
“This week, HeraldTimesOnline.com will launch its new gun permit database. You’ll be able to search gun permit records by county, city or town and street."
Looks like they're publishing a statewide permit database.
Bad form on the newspaper but would love to see some thugs try and cash in on the info.
And the excuse parents might like to check up on their kid's play dates? The gun rack just inside the doors gives it away. Most parents go “Cool, what are they?”
Ask why citizen cannot access this database when the Blooming HT provides the information to the public for the price of a subscription to their newspaper.
Blooming = Bloomington
The purpose of a gun in my house is for protection. If a crook has the ability to know I can blow his @ss to kingdom come, that is a very good thing for my protection. I would take the newspaper and hang it in my front window and on my outside mailbox with my name underlined in optic orange hi-lighter pen.
A lot of people already do this. Anyone ever see an ADT sign on someone’s front lawn?
Some very enterprising soul will make a nice sum of money creating signage that proclaims membership in the Bloomington Gun Club
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