A danger to us all

[gopguy]

We all recall the nightmare for some gun owners when an irresponsible newspaper in NY published the names, addresses and provided an interactive map showing where gun owners lived. It led to break ins and people who need where they lived hidden such as judges, police officers and people who had restraining orders were exposed to danger. Well now this nightmare may be lived by all of us who own a gun or if someone just dislikes you and wishes to cause trouble. This new program intends to make it possible for anyone to report and tag gun owners they don't like with an interactive map. This is a threat to the security and privacy of every gun owner in the United States. While the media is fixated on idiotic crap and people are all worked up about someone wearing a 0bama clown mask at a rodeo, our liberty and security are being eroded daily. We need to wake our fellow Americans before it is too late. Frankly it should be illegal to create anything that is such an affront to the privacy of law abiding American citizens.



http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/9020


http://gungeomarker.org/

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

Everyone within 1/2 mile of my house knows I own guns. I used to have a gunshop at my home, and currently shoot in my yard at least twice a week. My neighbors own guns, and we look out for each other. It would be foolhardy to consider breaking in if such a list were released to the press. As a matter of fact, we might consider it BAIT for the fools that give it a go.

 

[blarby]

*yawn*

Tis kinda old news, and hashed over well here.

 

[xxjumbojimboxx]

Thatd be a losing proposition in texas....i say leta make a site that posts non gun owners... wellbsee who gets robbed more...

 

[allaroundhunter]

Yeah, if they put a little red dot on every gun owner's home on a map of Texas then the map would look like it was for an election.

It is quite funny that while criminals in NJ used the map as a way to target gun owners, criminals in Texas would be much more likely to use such a map to avoid those houses.

 

[barnbwt]

Old news. As I recall, the last guy to do this had his app pulled by Google, and revealed thereafter --surprise, surprise-- that it was a big phishing scam to bait gunowners into visiting his website (dude was a known hacker scum, btw) and downloading software that I imagine opens all sorts of vulnerabilities.

Most anti's are too scared of gunowners to pull this nonsense (we'd shoot them if we found out, after all ) and prefer to "wish away" firearms altogether through the effortless practice of voting for things that sound nice. Gunowners however, are a paranoid bunch (we've been given reason to be ), and would likely download the software to see if they've been tagged--just to be sure. Possibly also some misplaced belief that they can "jam the system" and enter a bunch of bogus addresses (valiant effort, but a complete waste of energy because it won't accomplish or stop anything). Publicity stunt at best, phishing scam at worst, pointless diversion most likely; just avoid the thing and ignore it.

It's not as though everyone one this forum hasn't been "made" and plopped into a database already . Now if you'll excuse me, some one's knocking at the door...

TCB

 

[gamestalker]

When I used to live in South Dakota back in the 1990's they would publish personal information of anyone who had just received their CWP in the newspaper.

Boy am I happy to be back in my home state of Arizona!

GS

 

[Robert]

As Blarby points out, this has been covered recently.