Posted on 02/13/2009 6:13:21 AM PST by JenB987
A Memphis based online news website, CommercialAppeal.com, has posted Tennessee’s right to carry permit holder list online! CommercialAppeal.com apparently feels that the “public’s right to know” outweighs your right to privacy. Their irresponsible decision to publish this list has made it easier for criminals to target law-abiding gun owners.
Shockingly when the list was first published, it even included permit holders home address! However, bowing to criticism, CommercialAppeal.com removed the address but still included a permit holder’s full name, birth date, city, zip code, and the issue and expiration date of their permit.
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I'm not on the list...but anyone coming in the house uninvited will end up in the paper.
My father retired from this newspaper. I remember when it was conservative paper.
I hear what you are trying to say, however...for every carry permit holders there are a thousand armed homes without a permit. kinda like playing Russian roulette in my neighborhood.
Why not publish vital information on the people at the crammerical appeal?
For some strange reason a lot of MSM types think the criminals are anxious to go rob homes where someone has a concealed-carry permit. Even some pro-gun people think this way ~ their argument is that "gee whiz, now the criminals know there's a gun in there so time to steal it".
Never quite understood that sort of thinking ~ it's far more likely that someone breaking in a house will be shot down by a pistol packing homeowner than if he's caught breaking in a house where the owner is probably unarmed!
A listing of every employee of this paper was posted on FR yesterday. Pity their addresses weren’t included.
Ping.
It could be lower of course.
Setting up anyone on the list as a prime candidate for identity theft; an intimidation tactic by the newspaper. The new enemies list.
Two can play at this game. I wonder if personal at the newspaper would like publicly available information on them (tax liens, divorce settlements, etc) compiled in a list.
Okay then, let’s publish the names of all the women who have had abortions; or all the patients diagnosed with HIV. Now that I think of it, the HIV list should be published, using their twisted logic. I mean the public’s right to know, imo, outweighs the need for privacy.
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Uh huh. A false security but I would think criminals would choose to avoid homes that they know have an armed owner. Maybe the criminals could hold them accountable too. “I chose this house because they weren’t on the list and got shot.”
I don’t really care who knows I have a CCW permit. The NRA Life Member pin I often wear on my lapel and the Ducks Unlimited decal on my truck should tell them something already.
Since the house across the street is owned by a couple who are both police officers, there is always a police cruiser parked there. Only the stupidest of criminals would try to break in 75 ft from a parked cruiser.
I tried searching to see if this was posted before.
Apologies if this is a repeat.
Though I’m sure a yellow book search of these employees names may turn up a few addresses.
That reminds me of a Jeff Foxworthy skit I heard on the radio. It was somethign a long the lines of a friend/relative of his had their house broken into and he said something like “Criminals, let’s be smart. If the house you’re about to break into has a dog on a chain, a truck with over sized tires and an engine hanging from a tree in the front yard, that’s a house where a gun lives!”
Probably can find it on YouTube. It’s hilarious!
Helps muggers pick out their unarmed prey.
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