Handgun permit holders same as sex offenders
A state that eagerly puts sex offender data online complete with an interactive map could easily do the same with gun permits
Then, they post a list of them noting:
You can search to find out if neighbors, carpool partners, elected officials or anyone else has permission to carry a gun
I’m sure someone will post addresses and phone numbers of the editorial staff of the paper. They always do.
Update: list seems gone now.
Update: List is there.
Update: Unsurprisingly, someone found the reporter’s address and posted it in comments at The Roanoke Times’ blog. Even more unsurprising is that the comments have disappeared.
March 12th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Nope, it’s still working, just checked it out.
March 12th, 2007 at 11:25 am
For the editorial writer’s address, check out the first comment on their own site:
http://blogs.roanoke.com/roundtable/columns/comment_on_trejbals_column_12.html#comments
March 12th, 2007 at 11:31 am
It really irritates the hell out of me that they equate gun owners with perverts who are a danger to the community.
March 12th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I bet they’re getting hammered about now. I took their poll, the results are 98% against making that list public.
It’s a petty, shortsighted way to make a point. This puts every permit holder at risk for burglary, theft and deadly assault.
What a freakin’ moron. He needs to be taken out behind the woodshed and whupped.
March 12th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
It looks like they have blanked out the comments.
Heh.
March 12th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
The good side is that everyone not on the list becomes a possible target. Jack.
March 12th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
I am sure that the ex-wife who got a gun for protection against her crazy abusive ex-husband is happy to know her name and address is on the internet to tell her husband where she is – and that she is armed…
March 12th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
If any other thing was being publicly revealed, the same people who want to expose gun permit holders would be sreaming about their 4th Amendment “privacy” rights. They’d be within their rights there, but anyone values that right or any other should at least respect the most basic human right of armed self-defense. They still have the choice to be an unarmed victim, but the only ones who need fear law-abiding gun-owning, gun-carrying citizens are tyrants and criminals–including the perverts with whom some want to pervertedly equate with gunowners.
March 12th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Here’s what this shit head wrote in a column in November
Yep, about sums it up right. He ought to follow his friends to Canada – or just the same – back to Bend, Oregon where the pinko is from.
And when are the progressive’s gonna root these shit heads out?? Seriously, he’s the reason I keep – at the end of the day – pulling the lever for Republicans , simply cause I cant stand to risk someone like this schmuck gaining any control over the country.
March 12th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Handgun permit holders aren’t the same as sex offenders? Just asking…
March 13th, 2007 at 12:30 am
They took it down and have an editors note up at the top of his column indicating that they learned there was information in the list which shouldn’t have been there or been published.
Yep. Assholes
In other news, I did look at it and found out even more of my neighbors pack than I had known before. Almost wish it was still up so I could make sure to invite each and everyone out shooting.
March 13th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
the list is gone as of now; the comments seem to be blinking in and out of existence. i see just over 450 of them right now, and maybe one of ’em goes against the outraged consensus. seems their web server wasn’t up to the stress of a Zumboing…
March 14th, 2007 at 10:29 am
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