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In reply to the discussion: Listing names of gun owners vs journalists & why it matters [View all]MadHound
(34,179 posts)And being stripped of all the guns. That's where most illegal guns come from in the first place, and now, by publishing maps to gun caches, the newspaper just insured that the number of illegal guns will skyrocket.
It was stupid and irresponsible for the paper to publish the names and addresses of gun owners. Throw out the privacy argument, the fact of the matter is that the newspaper just insured that a raft load of new illegal guns will hit the streets, guns that would have otherwise remained in the hands of decent, law abiding people.
Frankly, if I were to become a victim of a crime at the hands of a criminal who had an illegal gun that was ripped off from one of these published addresses, I would sue the shit out of the newspaper for its irresponsibility.