Consider an absurd second order effect where, if it's true that you're less likely to be robbed by being on this register, it encourages more people to buy guns, even if it means they don't have to use them.
This seems intended just to shame and intimidate lawful gun owners (in response to the SCOTUS ruling?).
[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-28/man-set-alight-guns-s...
[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/12/26/168075748...
Guns may be “easy to liquidate” (not sure if that’s actually the case) but surely selling Xboxes and MacBooks on eBay is just as profitable?
I’ve had a house burgled, two cars broken into, and know several victims of violent crime and still can’t relate even a little bit to the anxiety expressed here or the idea that any of those encounters would have turned out better with an extra gun around.
I don’t mean to challenge your point of view, just to note how huge the divide is between how people fundamentally conceive of this stuff.
Most Americans can't wrap their heads around the possibility that they're being burgled by someone who
a) is in need of cash b) is not interested in killing, torturing, raping or maiming the victim c) would ideally like to get in and out for a quick financial win
Where I live (Australia) our burglary rate is 5x greater per capita than America. And yet our "murdered by burglar rate" is effectively nil, much like it is in the states. But there are scores of yanks that will talk about their need to have a firearm for home defence to ensure their family isn't murdered by someone who's most likely looking for a bit of cash for a drug fix.
Approximately 10k homicides with firearms in 2019: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
In 2019, there were 28 live shooter incidents with 12 meeting the definition of “mass shooting.” In total, active shooters claimed 247 lives that year: https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/active-shooter-incidents...
Compare that with this report from the Obama administration: http://nap.edu/18319
Annually, firearms in America are used in self defense between 500k and 3M times (real page 26, labeled as 15). Taking these numbers as true, the rate firearms are used in self defense vs. homicide is between 50x and 300x. Americans are substantially more likely to defend themselves with a firearm than to be unlawfully killed by one. They are substantially more likely to defend themselves with a firearm than to be killed in a mass shooting.
This is clearly vindictive, just as much as the sex offender registry is 90%+ vindictive.
When they go low, we go lower, baby!
Original was 'Attorney General Bonta Releases New Firearms Data to Increase Transparency and Information Sharing'. They absolutely leaked data by failing to secure it properly via tableau, but the headline as written here implies that this was done deliberately. I looked at it last night, you wouldn't have known about it unless you were digging through the page source looking for ways to scrape it.
Negligent at best, possibly deliberate at worst. But that doesn't justify the false impression created by this headline.
Bonta is ultimately responsible as he's head of the AG's office, but the not-unreasonable premise of the page was just publishing longitudinal statistical data. Unless litigation reveals he asked the front-end devs to make it happen, it's negligent rather than deliberate.
This is consistent with how FOIA and CCW laws interact in most states. For example, here's NY's explanation of how SAFE and FOIL interact[1].
[1]: https://safeact.ny.gov/protect-your-privacy-foil-exemption
Jokes aside, this is inexcusable. There is no safety claim here, just revenge and fear for anyone that would dare to apply.
According to the site before it went down, SF had 11 permits issued. Next year it will be in the hundreds. The AG will try to deny as many as possible, but it’s over, may issue is dead.
and also apparently anyone who had simply applied
In hindsight I am glad I took the path I did. Things are getting weird(er). Politics are really starting to impact citizens in ways I had not imagined would happen in my lifetime. Surely these events are eroding what little trust and confidence people have in their governments? I am seeing too many "Ooops did I leak that?" events and blaming cloud configuration errors. It's a broken record at this point and I am not buying it.
1. Criminals can see which houses to avoid burglarizing.
2. Criminals can see where to find weapons to steal when owners are away.
3. Stalkers can easily find their victims home who may be carrying for self defense.
4. Will the addresses of every police officer be published too? They carry a gun at all times, even off duty in most cases.
Is the reddit thread.
