Newspaper Publishes Gun Owners’ Names and Addresses

[NutmegYankee]

221. I strongly believe this should not have been a public record.

How many battered women who have gone to great lengths to hide their address did this newspaper just release to their abuser? I've known someone in that exact position, with a pistol for defense because her abuser threatened her life and the children's. The police have already won court cases showing they do not have a responsibility to protect anyone.

How many police officers had their address released to anyone who may have a reason to get revenge on them?

I read several posts over the week proposing to fire gun owners from their jobs or publicly defriend/shun gun owners. How did this release serve the public interest? I see only negative actions against people who have committed no crime whatsoever!

I completely disagree with your view that the information of private citizens should be released to the public. Open records laws should apply to to functions and decisions of government, not to private citizens. Every bit of information released can be compiled and used to cause harm to you. The more info I have on someone the easier to Phish their family or steal their identity.

You disagree likely because you've never seen a woman, beaten and bruised and scared to death of her soon to be ex, living a nomadic life to protect her children. You've never seen the shame of a friend's grandmother who fell for wiring money via western union due to an elaborate hoax perpetrated by someone with enough information to sound like the grandson.

That the law pathetically allowed the release doesn't mean nearly as much as the epic poor judgement this newspaper used in releasing the info, mapping it and making it easily searchable. The action of this Newspaper was reckless and negligent, and I hope they fail as a company. And for that I will never apologize.