New York paper posts names and addresses of gun owners

[BlackCat]

Knock him down with a baseball bat

[Al B. Sure!]

Knock him down with a baseball bat

When? Where? How do you know he'll go and kill people?

[giblets]

How would you stop it?

I wouldn't, but at least I'd be less shocked when it happened.

[BlackCat]

When? Where? How do you know he'll go and kill people?

Anyone displaying a gun and isn't an obvious carrier of such (police, army etc). Ordinary people doesn't need a gun, so it's actually quite easy to determine wich people to knock down

[regexcellent]

So I can know if the next door neighbor's son might shoot up the local school?

And knowing who the local gun owners are won't tell you that at all, because the chance of that happening is essentially zero. We have had what, two school shootings in the past 13 years? Something like that.

[MrFun]

"Idiot"? Really?

If I had a kid an I knew my neighbour stockpiled handguns I wouldn't let my child over there.

Unless you're a hunter, multiple gun owners are creeps. They're compensating for something. There's something mentally unwell about a person who feels the need to own more than one gun.

HC, people might want to know if, for example, their next door neighbors, who are parents of a mentally unstable teenager with past troubling or disturbing behavior patters, own a gun or not.

[DinoDoc]

To socially ostracize people that own guns. Oh the humanity!

To put the address of battered women who were under protective order and in hiding in full public view? A road map of where to rob depending on if you want to steal a weapon or not?

[Aeson]

I'm still mad at these douchebags for publishing the names, phone numbers, and addresses of people who own phones.

[BlackCat]

To put the address of battered women who were under protective order and in hiding in full public view?

Are you seriously claiming that the state should be allowed to have secrets not accessible to the public ?

[DinoDoc]

Are you seriously claiming that the state should be allowed to have secrets not accessible to the public ?

What meaningful public purpose was served by this action?

[BlackCat]

What meaningful public purpose was served by this action?

Are you claiming that there are some information that the state should be allowed to hide from the public ?

[regexcellent]

Are you claiming that there are some information that the state should be allowed to hide from the public ?

Uh, yes, obviously. Firstly, there's the classified information pertaining to national defense and security. Secondly, there's the private information of individuals that do business with the government. Third, there's information the government has on individuals that could potentially be harmful if public.

[BlackCat]

This is actually quite entertaining

[MRT144]

To put the address of battered women who were under protective order and in hiding in full public view? A road map of where to rob depending on if you want to steal a weapon or not?

Oh won't somebody think of fringe cases!!!

Also, a roadmap of places to rob? Isn't that why people own guns in the first place?

[Hauldren Collider]

MRT is a wonderful demonstration of the fact that many of the people who want to ban assault weapons and other guns are nothing more than culture warriors with a distaste for those who have different values. You're not actually interested in reducing crime, MRT, you just personally despise people who own guns because they are stereotypically aligned with a group of people who disagree with you. It's nothing more than pathetic, petty identity politics.

Anyone looking at the crime statistics will note the obvious: Gun control is not going to actually reduce crime. People like Diane Feinstein basically just hate people they consider to be rednecks.