A New York state legislator — who proudly says he lives in a 400-square-foot cabin with five shotguns — is proposing a bill to keep gun records private, and keep a paper like The Journal News from publishing gun owners’ addresses again.
“You have to realize on this list you have victims of domestic violence who got a permit to be able to protect themselves. You have New York City police officers who are retired. And now any nut job or criminal can go online and decide to go after their family,” state Sen. Greg Ball (R-N.Y.) said on Fox Business Network today.
“And, at the end of the day, we’re talking about a bunch of eggheads at a very liberal newspaper that they don’t go out of their way to show us where the sexual predators live. … They’re focusing on the people who [own guns] the right way, are following the law, paying their taxes, and they put them in the same category as a level three sexual predator. That is B.S.”
“There’s a lot of talk right now about gun control. We need to have a national conversation about nut control,” Ball said.
Ball said he’s familiar with the “very anti-Second Amendment newspaper,” having to appear before their editorial board each election season for an endorsement “which I wouldn’t accept it if came with a million dollars.”
“This is not about the Second Amendment only. It’s a privacy issue. They shouldn’t have done it. And now we need to make sure it’s illegal so it will never happen again,” he said. “I think with the furor that has been unleashed, I think we have a real possibility to get this done in the vein of privacy.”
“That’s right!” shouted Vroomfondel, “we demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”
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Yeah! We’re absolutely certain that there can never be any absolute truths!
I’d definitely like to see more civil liability proceedings against news organizations that intentionally publish lies. I hope George Zimmerman ends up owning NBC… and firing everyone. *** Nut control will never get beyond the state of the art as it is today because the inmates have been in control of the asylum fore much too long.
NYS Senator Greg Ball is the first NYS senator who makes sense.
You have to follow the dysfunction that is the NYS Senate to know what I mean.
I vote in what was Espada’s district, only because I can not escape.
The Journal News published their infamous map ONLINE, the most efficient way to display every single name and address of anyone with a PERMIT, and, yes, that includes a LOT of police officers who have to have such a permit.
A national conversation about nut control? YES
“A New York state legislator — who proudly says he lives in a 400-square-foot cabin with five shotguns — is proposing a bill to keep gun records private…”
who proudly says he lives in a 400-square-foot cabin with five shotguns
is proposing a bill to keep gun records private
Now that there is funnay!
There’s a big difference between someone choosing to reveal private information about himself and a newspaper making the decision for him.
Was he referring to the news paper or Bloomberg, when he said nut control? Just asking….
But this whole problem begins with the unfortunate fact that making something illegal in no way guarantees that it won’t happen again!
But on the bright side: GO GREG BALL! Especially when compared with my unimaginative drone of an idiot welfare-liberal state senator. Not to mention the self-enriching wheeler-dealer of the other party, whom she replaced. We can’t win ’round these parts…
The owners of these guns are doing exactly what the generation that passed the Second Amendment wished them to do, and what *we* should wish them to do. An armed yeoman citizenry of the responsible middle is a helpmeet to the state in maintaining local order and safety (above and beyond what the constabulary can do); serves as a subtle reminder to the constabulary that they are servants, not a higher caste unique in talent whom all must passively defer too, and thus responsible citizens should be respected as adults and citizenal equals, not as children; instills in the populace a sense of active ownership and responsibility for a local community; instills in the populace a sense that they are capable of doing things themselves; serves as an aid in maintaining the integrity and existence of the state, if needs be; and serves as a guarantor that even if a state becomes abusive of its power in a clear, sustained, tyrannical, and absolutely otherwise uncheckable way, that liberty will still prevail. These are all valid reasons, as valid now as in 1790.
At the end of the day, the gun banners–and the Journal-News is clearly of that ilk–cannot abide to live in a world where they have not eliminated, with 100% assuredness, the possibility that some yahoo somewhere will not do something unfortunate. So they choose to straitjacket the rest of us, so as to have absolute certainty. Meanwhile, they still publish their own yahoo mistakes, in the form of corrections, on page 2 in small type. If a life got destroyed by that mistake, oops. “Sorry”.
Or more likely, they’d just say they made no mistake at all, or would just quietly stop covering the story. And then say, on something else, that it is the average responsible citizen who must have rights curtailed, despite no adverse act on their part of those citizens. To which I can only say that when the Journal-News stops abusing the freedoms it has, I’ll listen more to what it thinks are the excessive freedoms of others.
Funny how gun owners decry from the mountain tops that their Second Amendment right to own guns is a protected freedom that cannot be infringed upon and at the same time decry from the same mountain tops that speech freedom of the First Amendment should not have the same protection.
Hypocrisy anybody?
No. Not hypocrisy. And you know better. Don’t be a troll.
Suppose someone, say a newspaper, posted your name, address, mother’s maiden name, and your Social Security number online. That poster has a First Amendment right to do so, right? Or is that different somehow since it’s your info?
A balance exists between privacy and freedom of speech. Revealing personal data potentially causes grave harm and is actionable.
A Second Amendment analogy might be brandishing your firearm and pointing it at neighbors at random. You have a right to have personal weapons under that amendment, but not to be a fool about it by affecting or endangering others without good cause.