Posted by
Pscyclone on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 1:13:37 PM
For a couple of years now it’s been rather en vogue for a liberal or otherwise anti-gun media outlet to find and publish a list of private citizens with a concealed weapons carry permit. The latest organization succumbing to this infringement on a person’s right to privacy is out of Memphis, Tennessee. NRAILA.org reports that CommercialAppeal.com listed Tennessee’s citizens who maintain a right-to-carry permit.
It would be bad enough if the list stopped with a simple first and last name.
Instead, CommercialAppeal.com decided to really violate a person’s right to privacy by listing full name, home address, city, zip code, date of birth, when the permit was issued, and when it will expire.
I won’t touch on the ramifications of such private data listed on the internet; identity theft is so rampant that even the mainstream media acknowledges it’s a huge problem. There are a number of privacy laws from the local municipality all the way to the U.S. Constitution that CommercialAppeal.com has violated; I won’t speak to this because the laws are well known and should be applied to every law-abiding citizen of Tennessee, and the United States.
The main purpose behind exposing a law-abiding citizen to such a violation of his or her privacy has nothing to do with the citizen and everything to do with the guns. We are told that guns kill people and should be taken out of our nation’s economy. It’s a difficult thing to do, really; banning guns in the same country that has relied on guns for its own independence has met with fierce resistance from folk who despise the NRA.
Hence the recent attempt by various legally-challenged media outlets to shame the law-abiding citizen into giving up his or her Second Amendment rights to self-preservation.
And I think this is a great idea.
Let me throw my whole-hearted support behind such a tactic, in fact, I think there should be more lists like this on the internet.
For instance, we should have a list of every woman who’s ever had an abortion; we should tabulate the list with her full name (married and maiden), home address, city, zip code, date of birth, when the abortion(s) were performed and at what facility.
I mean, guns kill people, right? And we need to shame the gun owners into stopping their guns from killing people by violating his or her right to privacy to do so. Or at least that’s what CommercialAppeal.com believes.
Abortions kill people, right? Last time I checked, abortions killed orders of magnitude more people than guns. We should have such a detailed list on the internet to help prevent those deaths, too.
What’s a little privacy infringement in the name of social justice? This list would save lives.