Important Stuff -- Or Not: Gun Fun

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Gun Fun

While considering whether to carry a gun, I've been doing some research that includes becoming familiar with local gun issues. Wow, there is a low-key war in this country between gun owners and gun grabbers that is fascinating! Last week, a guy named Christian Trejbal wrote an opinion column for the Roanoke Times about "open government." As part of the article, this guy thought it necessary to publish on the paper's web site a list of 135,000 Virginians who have concealed carry permits -- just as an example of open government, mind you. The list included people's names and addresses. It was like setting off a nuclear bomb. The paper deleted the list the very next day. What they did not consider, or did not care about, is that such a list could be used by abusive spouses or stalkers to track down their victims. It could also be used by criminals to identify homes that have guns in them that could be stolen. We also have a little problem in the DC metro area with criminals killing trial witnesses. Even people who don't carry guns were upset because now, a criminal could just consult the list and find that they were defenseless. Some women who were hiding from abusive husbands said they would now have to move -- again. And, it didn't help that the name and address of the Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court was published. The result of this stupid and mean-spirited move is that the VA legislature is going to consider next year whether to either make the concealed carry list private or to eliminate gun permits entirely. Wouldn't that upset the weasel who published the column in the first place -- knowing that because of him any law abiding citizen of Virginia could carry a gun with no regulation whatsoever?

4 comments:

Mark said...: I have just been informed that it is actually common in Virginia for newspapres to publish lists of gun owners in Virginia. My fiancee, who has lived in Virginia all her life, says the Fredericksburg Free Lance Star, publishes the entire list every few months or so.

Their reasoning is that the list is public record anyway, and that anyone who wants to view the list can go search it out at the courthouse.

She owns a gun. She said she didn't even have to take the test. She only mentioned what street she lived on and they gave her the permit.; 9:36 AM
Lone Ranger said...: Yes, the Fredericksburg Freelance-Press and the King George
Journal-Press do it. But this fiasco has drawn the attention of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a state gun rights group. They have given those papers two days to reconsider their policy or they'll rain fire down on their heads too with demonstrations, sponsor boycotts, etc.; 11:55 AM
Tonto said...: In this day and age I understand POSSIBLY a published list with NAMES but to include addresses is ridiculous and serves NO public purpose to keep it public!!!...go ahead and keep their addresses but kept privately.

These people are not child molesters or criminals so why do we need their addresses?? but just a list of names is not much better but I can understand that.

Nowadays with credit theft etc. you are not even suppose to list your year of birth near your name!!! AND SHRED YOUR TRASH...SO by publishing a list of names and addresses in a paper for any loser to find who wouldn't take the trouble of looking up in public records...makes no sense...isn't the name enough anyway? Good grief!; 2:52 PM
DAKOTARANGER said...: Tonto, the thing is according to Roe v. Wade we have the right to privacy. What I have on my hip is my business, not my neighbors. You wouoldn't print a list of women that had abortions because of Roe.

I say keep government out of our holsters!!!

Ok now that I have that out of my system, the newspaper published LAW ABIDING CITIZENS names that have passed a stringent background check and testing.

If they wanted to do something special for Sunshine week they should publish the names and addresses of sex offenders, muggers,drunk drivers, or murderers. By violating the civl rights and Constitutional rights of law abiding citizens they are acting no different than the USSR.; 10:28 AM

Post a Comment

Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.