As a gun owner, I have no problem with it. It just lets the bad guys know which homes are safe to hit, and which ones, like mine, will be hazardous to their health.

OTOH, it let's the bad guys know where to go to steal one for their next crime!

gloria jankowski
It's nobody's business to know without a person's prior written consent. For a journal to publish this information is an invasion of an individual's privacy.

Making that information public was a moronic move on many levels, wonder how many people were harassed by gun ban avocets before any laws were changed.why don't you make drunk driving idiots public seeing how they kill more children every year anyways,hell why not make beer illegal and you'll save more lives,but nobody is attacking them.point is that some people are riding this horse too hard and it will not end on a good note.try finding the real problem instead

Google search /gun control/just the facts, you might find the stats intresting

That could become the first step down a very slippery slope. It tells thieves where to steal guns, which we probably prefer not to do. It allows those government leaders who may be so inclined (Richard Nixon, Dick Cheney, or anybody else who would like to have more power any way they can get it) a database to go after should they decide it is in their best interests to do so. It also could be used by any group so inclined, to harass or intimidate the individuals with guns.

I think that this would be useful if you are buying a house. It would serve the same purpose as knowing that sex offenders live in a neighborhood. It would be another tool to know when house hunting. It would also be beneficial to the police, firemen or EMS knowing that there are weapons in a house before they respond.

LOL, at Euge! Ridiculous, that u would want to know the private gun owners in the neighborhood if buying! The rest fo you agreed! It is private to the owner. They were able to apply and receive a permit through the police station, then a conceal and carry permit through the dakota county courthouse. SO, if there are gun-owners in your neighboorhood, it could be relief to know that there are armed citizens in your block!..Not beneficial to police either, it is not their business to know who has what. Is it beneficial to you to know who has a pipe or bat or crowbar, that they could intentionally use to inflict harm on you too? Really there are over 350 million guns owned in the US. Lets be logical and resonable at the same time. Mind your own business when it comes to private lives of citizens. Almost all of those are not used to kill people. Stupidity. Actually the bat is the number one violent crime weapon being used in the U.S. So maybe all of our boys need to be registered and monitered BEFORE going to the field for practice......Where the hell is common-sense and respect for the rights of Americans gone???

Oh yeah, Euge, I thought maybe you'd prefer to have the mental health records of people in the neighboorhood too. Actually that would be a great idea for the gun crime psychos that are out there doing this crap. But hell that'd be tons of citizens own kids (that had reached 18, no longer juvenile). it would also be many of your own adult neighbors that have to go see a shrink or counselor and are on xanax or prozac..hmmm. those are the people that have no stability. It's not the guns, its the type of person...Ohhhh, when we talk about mental health records, then its a different story, no-one wants to do that...obviously too many adults are on them!!!

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