The public knowing who owns guns

Giving a bully one's trousers to keep one's lunch money is a good analogy.

Another one I read, recently - sorry, don't remember who posted it - was of people in a sleigh, pursued by wolves, throwing babies to them to distract the wolves. Not only did they mourn each baby lost, but they were running out of babies, and the wolves still pursued...

Way too many gunners are talking about compromise and giving things up.

Try this, instead:

Contact your Senators, your Representative, your Governor, and your state legislators and tell them you oppose any further restrictions on your Second Amendment rights; donate to NRA-ILA, SAF, or any other reputable and effective RKBA organization you like; and educate fence sitters in your own social circle.

If you don't do that, but just whimper and fret about what you may have to give up, then you are an albatross around the necks of the rest of us.
 
Odd, perhaps, but after the reading the first post, before the narcotics analogy was used, the following incident popped into my mind:

Several years ago, the local newspaper published a piece about the recreational use of ketamine (aka "Special K") which included the absurd statement that it was perfectly legal but could only be acquired by burglarizing veterinarians' offices. Within a month, half the veterinary clinics in the county, including my own, had been burglarized.

I will join the chorus of folks who have a hard time seeing any good coming out of being made a target for the unscrupulous among us.
 
OK, lets apply this to the First Amendment rather than the second. Would anyone be OK with making people who practice a certain religion register with the gov't and have their personal information made public record? What about people who belong to a particular political party? How about people who own and read certain literature? After all, many people consider certain religions, political parties, and literature to be offensive or even dangerous.

Similarly, consider the following: Woud you be OK with with being "outed" as a gun owner if your employer was rabidly anti-gun? How about if your child's teacher(s) were anti-gun? What if you were a college student and your professor was an anti? Practices such as those of the Journal News can have lots of consequences beyond just a few huffy neighbors.
 
Just my $.02.

I live in a rural area of the South so if they publish the names of everyone that owns a gun it would be a list of everyone in the county. Also, if you drive past my house the target range and backstop with many holes is visable.

What they don't know is how many, what kind and where they are. Not all are locked up in the safe.

But for those in another setting where gun owners maybe the exception, privacy would be more important.
 
Spreading the word

Posting the guns I own is a lot like posting the contents of my jewelry box, stamp collection, silverware or any other valuable. Not too smart is it?
 
" I'd put a red sticker on my front window if they mandated it for gun owners."

That might not work out for you.

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I just really don't see that as a major problem. I'd like to hear from those who do and why they care.
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There has already been a robbery that occured, they believe, as a direct result of the latest gun owner list published in New York.

My neighbors and family know I hunt and can guess I own guns. That is fine. Publishing my information to entire world because I own a gun? Yes, I have a major problem with that. I am not a criminal and will not be treated like one simply because I own a legal firearm.

And this
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is one of the most frightening statements I've ever seen on TFL.
 
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The valuables in your home may not mean much to the less sophisticated criminal, but believe me, the hardcore criminal, one who has done time in state prison wants to "get paid" as they say. If these more sophisticated criminals know that there is a valuable jewelry, gun or coin collection in your home, it goes to the top of their priority list.

I don't want anyone to know about the valuables I have in my home. Heck, I don't even want some of my more big mouthed, left-wing relatives to know what I have. Both of my safes are out of sight, in places I don't even show good friends.
 
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