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In reply to the discussion: Journalists’ Addresses Posted In Revenge For Newspaper’s Google Map Of Gun Permit Owners [View all]naaman fletcher
(7,362 posts)28. One of the reason I think posting gun-owners names will backfire
Is that people will discover vast numbers of their friends are "asswipes" who own guns.
You are really living in a secluded little world if you think everyone who owns a gun is an asswipe.
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Journalists’ Addresses Posted In Revenge For Newspaper’s Google Map Of Gun Permit Owners [View all]
Freddie Stubbs
Dec 2012
OP
I just like the word asswipe and no not everyone who owns a gun is a asswipe
Resonance_Chamber
Dec 2012
#31
Out of the thousands of people in those two NY counties, it's a safe bet that some of them...
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#11
Well then the people who are stalking them will know they are armed. Isn't that the point....
Walk away
Dec 2012
#17
The stalkers may not have even known where their victims lived before their names and addresses...
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#18
It's amazing how so many otherwise intelligent people haven't thought of that.
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#26
The guns that won't be on that list are those that criminals bought or got...
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#47
That's exactly my point. It's not illegal, but it was stopped because it's unethical and does harm.
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#61
A map of every gun in town. Perfect resource for a burglar to avoid getting shot
Coyotl
Dec 2012
#36
I've been trying to find a link to that map but can't. Does anyone have the link?
cherokeeprogressive
Dec 2012
#64