Newspaper Publishes Gun Owners’ Names and Addresses
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This is exactly why legislators ave so long resisted a national gun registry. This is abuse of such information and it is dangerous. What were they thinking? Surely not to HELP the gun-ban effort. If it was (it was) it was surely not well though out. Here are just a few reasons why:
1)It provides a shopping list for specialty burglars who seek firearms to sell to the criminal black market.
2) It provides a defacto list of those who do NOT have firearms, for home-invasion specialist so that they will be able to pick the easiest target houses where they will most likely not meet armed resistance.
3) In this particular jurisdiction, the list is effectively a list of law enforcement and judges and politicians because these are the only ones who qualify for owning and/or carrying guns.
4)If it intimidates anyone into ridding themselves of guns, the guns will be sold via gun shows and private transactions. People don't throw guns away. Even if they did, someone would get them.
5) This hurts the discussion about gun-ownership. It makes a stronger case for the quiet ownership of guns and it further encourages those who may already have guns to NOT register them--making them criminals--against the advice of federal laws and the Supreme Court.
In no way does this kind of irresponsibility make our community safer. Idiots.