Outrage after NY paper publishes names of gun permit holders

[RadarTech]

One of our local news outlets has a link showing the salaries of all university employees in NC. While this is public information, I don't think it needs to be made so easily available, it just amounts to allowing people to snoop on their neighbors. Of course, it drives traffic to the newspaper website so they make money allowing people to snoop on the people they know. Good thing TSA does not keep photographic scans of people, otherwise these websites would show the images as well.

Later,
Dan

Yea the next tabloid story in seeing (fill in the blank) movie star naked.....
:rollingeyes:

 

[MossRoad]

As IslandTractor pointed out there is a First Amendement and to some that is equally important! The question to us as a society is which direction do we choose to go??????

Ahh, but just because you have the right to free speech doesn't mean you have to say it, or, in the case of freedom of the press, you don't have to print it.

 

[brin]

Ahh, but just because you have the right to free speech doesn't mean you have to say it, or, in the case of freedom of the press, you don't have to print it.

I agree Moss...it has to do with common sense, common decency, a sense of right and wrong etc...I think our country has a deficit in that regard....You are exactly right.

 

[MossRoad]

One of our local news outlets has a link showing the salaries of all university employees in NC. While this is public information, I don't think it needs to be made so easily available, it just amounts to allowing people to snoop on their neighbors. Of course, it drives traffic to the newspaper website so they make money allowing people to snoop on the people they know. Good thing TSA does not keep photographic scans of people, otherwise these websites would show the images as well.

Later,
Dan

It only lists the salaries of state employees, not employees of private universities. They do the same thing here to illustrate that government is the largest employer and where your tax dollars are spent.

 

[IslandTractor]

Let me see if I got this right? The gumment now has easy access to all the information they need to confiscate licensed guns and a GPS map of how to drive to each house and take them away. What kind of "low life" leader would undertake such a endeavor?

You seriously just figuring this out? You'd have to be a hermit to stay off Internet accessible databases these days. Google your own name and see what happens.

 

[MossRoad]

I agree Moss...it has to do with common sense, common decency, a sense of right and wrong etc...I think our country has a deficit in that regard....You are exactly right.

I work for a Newspaper. 15 years ago a cop was killed. After the trial, his widow was exiting a rear courthouse door. One of our photogs attempted to take her picture. She was surrounded by cops. They asked him not to take the picture. He had the right to take it as it was in a public place. He took it, the cops got angry, he fled, the cops lumped him up mildly. There was a lawsuit. The photog won, of course, because he had the right to take the photo. But personally, while I support his right to take that photo, he should have had the common courtesy to not take it when requested. He should have had a little more humanity and the cops should have been more professional.

The media should report the facts in an unbiased manner. Save the commentary for the editorials. If they wanted to illustrate how many people in an area have firearm permits, they could have just posted the numbers for a given area, not the names and addresses of those people.

Maybe they'll do a story about the elections and post the names and addresses of all the folks that voted in the primaries next. That's all public info too. Bet that'll go over just as well.

So's the make and model of your car. Maybe they should post all the luxury car owner's names and addresses.

And don't forget hunting licenses. Fishing licenses. Too.

 

[sweettractors]

You seriously just figuring this out? You'd have to be a hermit to stay off Internet accessible databases these days. Google your own name and see what happens.

Island, that post was sorta made with "tongue in cheek". Ken Sweet

 

[RadarTech]

Island, that post was sorta made with "tongue in cheek". Ken Sweet

I swear we need a sarcasm font!

 

[sweettractors]

I work for a Newspaper. 15 years ago a cop was killed. After the trial, his widow was exiting a rear courthouse door. One of our photogs attempted to take her picture. She was surrounded by cops. They asked him not to take the picture. He had the right to take it as it was in a public place. He took it, the cops got angry, he fled, the cops lumped him up mildly. There was a lawsuit. The photog won, of course, because he had the right to take the photo. But personally, while I support his right to take that photo, he should have had the common courtesy to not take it when requested. He should have had a little more humanity and the cops should have been more professional.

The media should report the facts in an unbiased manner. Save the commentary for the editorials. If they wanted to illustrate how many people in an area have firearm permits, they could have just posted the numbers for a given area, not the names and addresses of those people.

Maybe they'll do a story about the elections and post the names and addresses of all the folks that voted in the primaries next. That's all public info too. Bet that'll go over just as well.

So's the make and model of your car. Maybe they should post all the luxury car owner's names and addresses.

And don't forget hunting licenses. Fishing licenses. Too.

And all the places you visit on the internet will be next. They already pretty much know, just waiting for the right time. Ken Sweet

 

[IslandTractor]

I think First Amendment rights end when it puts others in danger. I am not saying this did but it has potential.

I think Second Amendment rights end when it puts others in danger. And, i can think of 26 people who recently suffered fatal injury because of one of their sportsman and firearm "self defense" right.