Newspaper Lists names, addresses of legal gun owners

[bmorepunk]

Like concealed carry, it is the uncertainty that keeps some bad guys from even more predation.

There isn't conclusive data to support this idea (just like there isn't conclusive data to support that more gun laws do anything to crime (violent or otherwise), and this assumes that criminals are rational actors (which is a really terrible assumption).

[Eastside Terp]

Florida has issued over one MILLION concealed weapons permits and is well on its way to the two million mark. 10,000 to 15,000 applications are coming in monthly.

Surely when we hit the two million mark, Floridians will be able to leave their doors unlocked, as an armed society is a polite society, at least thats what we have been told.

you keep posting about florida on different threads but ignore the responses to your post showing significant decreases in the number of violent crime in Florida over the the past 20 years despite significant increases in population ....

[demopublican]

Jessup will not acknowledge inconvenient truths.

[soulflower]

you keep posting about florida on different threads but ignore the responses to your post showing significant decreases in the number of violent crime in Florida over the the past 20 years despite significant increases in population ....

Crime is decreasing all over the country not just Florida. Even Baltimore and DC have seen a reduction in crime over the past 20 years

In the same time frame, the rate of gun ownership has declined. I'm not saying that there's a relationship between gun ownership and crime. Just pointing stating the facts.

[bmorepunk]

you keep posting about florida on different threads but ignore the responses to your post showing significant decreases in the number of violent crime in Florida over the the past 20 years despite significant increases in population ....

Crime rates in Florida and its localities (violent included) have significantly decreased in Florida at about the same rate they have across nearly every state and city in our country in the last 20 years in a linear fashion. Baltimore City's rates have dropped pretty much the same. Liberal bastions of more restrictive gun control laws have dropped the same. Not only can one not show a causal relationship between gun laws loosening or tightening, the number of weapons owned, ownership penetration, etc. there isn't even any correlation.

[demopublican]

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/a...led-by-/nTfk2/

Gun saves victim in Atlanta.

[bmore_ken]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blog...opstories.html

Does the Journal News want to make it easier for criminals to steal guns from lawful gun owners?

If no law was broken, I don't see a problem. Granted, I also don't understand the reason for doing it in the first place, but I don't see a problem if it was done legally

[bmore_ken]

I wonder if they'll claim responsibility when thug democrats get shot during their attempted burglary if they happen to be dumb enough to help themselves if someone is home?

I thought Democrats were anti gun? You guys need to make up your minds

[bmore_ken]

Florida has issued over one MILLION concealed weapons permits and is well on its way to the two million mark. 10,000 to 15,000 applications are coming in monthly.

Surely when we hit the two million mark, Floridians will be able to leave their doors unlocked, as an armed society is a polite society, at least thats what we have been told.

Don't tell that to Jacksonville

[demopublican]

If no law was broken, I don't see a problem. Granted, I also don't understand the reason for doing it in the first place, but I don't see a problem if it was done legally

I wonder how many women in that list purchased weapons because of stalkers or abusive ex-husband/boyfriend situations.
I guess now the abuse can continue.

[demopublican]

I thought Democrats were anti gun? You guys need to make up your minds

The politicians are anti gun.. But many of the urban areas that tend to make up Democratic strongholds have high gun crime rates. Out side of PG County the politicians themselves don't tend to be criminals.

[bmore_ken]

The politicians are. Many of the urban areas that tend to make up Democratic strongholds have high gun crime rates.

Politicians break into homes?

[bmore_ken]

I wonder how many women in that list purchased weapons because of stalkers or abusive ex-husband/boyfriend situations.
I guess now the abuse can continue.

Or maybe it won't because the men know they're armed.

[demopublican]

Politicians break into homes?

The voter demographic in the urban area has a higher gun crime rate.

Not necessarily the same actual people that vote but the same demographic in the same areas.

[demopublican]

Or maybe it won't because the men know they're armed.

Maybe. I would not personally mind my info being listed but I think it was a bad use the free press.
I hope that nobody gets hurt.

[bmore_ken]

The voter demographic in the urban area has a higher gun crime rate.

Not necessarily the same actual people that vote but the same demographic in the same areas.

So you're saying democratic politicians are anti gun, but democratic voters are not?

[demopublican]

So you're saying democratic politicians are anti gun, but democratic voters are not?

No. But I am done with your game. I stated my view clearly enough.
You can get back to counting co-workers farts.

[bmorepunk]

Newspaper sparks outrage for publishing names, addresses of gun owners

The names and addresses of the two counties' permit-holding residents were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The website notes that the map does not indicate whether the residents own handguns, only that they are legally able to, and that the data do not pertain to rifles or shotguns -- which can be bought without a permit.

[soulflower]

I don't know why the newspaper did what they did but very little personal information is private nowadays.

With so much data-mining on the internet and everyone having GPS-enabled Smartphones or other mobile devices today, anyone can spy on anyone

[demopublican]

It was the second time that this newspaper has released similar information.
I would like to see them do the same with welfare recipients.