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Newspaper publishes Gun owners personal info.

hypocritexposer

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Gun Database Ignites Debate in Tennessee


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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 1, 2009

NASHVILLE (AP) — A Memphis newspaper has posted a searchable database of Tennesseans with permits to carry concealed handguns, upsetting firearm owners and igniting a debate on whether such information should be publicly available.

Gun owners say the database is an invasion of privacy and makes permit holders easy targets for burglaries. They have flooded the newspaper with complaints — some 600 e-mail messages a day — and threatened staff members and posted personal information about newspaper employees.

The editor, Chris Peck, said the paper added the database because newspapers should be a thorough source for community information. Mr. Peck pointed to the recent shooting as proof of why the database is valuable to readers.



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Mike

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I want my name as a gun owner to be in the newspaper.

Maybe it will lower my liability in case I must deter an intruder. :shock:
 

Sandhusker

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Since you're far more likely to be injured by a teen driver than a gun, why isn't the paper publishing names of those who just got their driver's licenses?
 

garn

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Sandhusker said:
Since you're far more likely to be injured by a teen driver than a gun, why isn't the paper publishing names of those who just got their driver's licenses?

Good point. Or how about those police officers who admit to talking on their cell phone and driving at the same time?
 

hypocritexposer

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Good point. Or how about those police officers who admit to talking on their cell phone and driving at the same time?

I haven't listened to Rush on the radio for about 8 years, but back then he was on a kick about the "bad SUV's" and laws banning cell phones, while driving. He used to say that that the cell makers would just make one that looks like a Big Mac, and all would be good.
 

garn

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hypocritexposer said:
Good point. Or how about those police officers who admit to talking on their cell phone and driving at the same time?

I haven't listened to Rush on the radio for about 8 years, but back then he was on a kick about the "bad SUV's" and laws banning cell phones, while driving. He used to say that that the cell makers would just make one that looks like a Big Mac, and all would be good.

I passed at least 2 city cops yesterday who were driving and talking.
 
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