New York paper posts names and addresses of gun owners

[Uncle Sparky]

Uncle Sparky, your posts are almost as humorous as the Armenian Genocide.

That is why you've thanked me for posts - sometimes you've got to look at a genocide and just laugh.

[Docfeelgood]

People may want to know if there are gun owners in their neighborhood for safety reasons.

Especially If you're a burglar.

[Docfeelgood]

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.

[Docfeelgood]

Printing the names and addresses sorta defeats the purpose of concealed weapons permit.
Hey, I'm all for open carry.

[MRT144]

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.

But I don't want to ban guns. Nice try skippy. Way to go all culture warrior on me.

[-Jrabbit]

I find it interesting that freedom of the press is barely referenced in this thread. And not at all after the first few posts.

Kinda sad; I actually thought that might be what this thread was about. But no. Instead it's just another pitched battle on gun rights. Y'all are a little one-note since Sandy Hook.

[SlowwHand]

Of course they have the right. That doesn't make it good judgment. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

[DinoDoc]

I find it interesting that freedom of the press is barely referenced in this thread. And not at all after the first few posts.

Kinda sad; I actually thought that might be what this thread was about. But no. Instead it's just another pitched battle on gun rights. Y'all are a little one-note since Sandy Hook.

Is there any real journalistic purpose to the story and visual aid?

[Hauldren Collider]

I find it interesting that freedom of the press is barely referenced in this thread. And not at all after the first few posts.

No one is disputing that they are within their legal rights to print this stuff. They're just massive ****heads for doing so.

[Aeson]

Is there any real journalistic purpose to the story and visual aid?

Ad revenue.

[-Jrabbit]

The print industry is desperate, and this got them a lot of public notice in the strange world of the Interwebs. Certainly it's difficult to construct a logical, journalistic reason to call this responsible reportage.

BTW, I wasn't suggesting that anyone here disagreed with the paper's right to print. I literally hadn't opened this thread before and was just a bit depressed that it had nothing more to offer than virtually the same posts I've already read in the other gun-related threads. Perhaps I was overly optimistic.

Carry on.

[Ben Kenobi]

JR, you still believe in journalistic integrity? It hasn't existed for a long time now. If it sells papers, that's what counts, not actually reporting the facts. I can open up my local paper, and there's not a single item in it that isn't copy pasted from AP and Reuters. The only thing that would tip you off that it's an actual paper, is the page or so of 'local news', presumably scoured up from one reporter.

[kentonio]

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.

Or to be more accurate 26. That's school shootings since Columbine where at least 2 people have died. Expand that to just shooting incidents and your around the 80 mark.

[The Mad Monk]

People may want to know if there are gun owners in their neighborhood for safety reasons.

Apologies if someone already covered this, but:

People may want to know if there are gun owners in their neighborhood to avoid for burglary reasons.

FTFY

[The Mad Monk]

Oops, I see DFG already has. Oh well.