Lists

So Liberals like to publish lists of gun owners.  They say this is to alert people of dangers, but it's really to intimidate legal possessors and discourage folks from getting a gun of their own.  It's a violation of privacy and is essentially a shopping list for burglars when names and addressed are posted. 

They don't consider that lots of the gun owners are police officers.  Have you ever noticed police officers aren't listed in the phone book?  They don't want dirtbags they arrested that are out on parole to come visit their families.  To discourage hoplophobes like ones in the MSM and in New York City and Chicago from publishing gun owner lists again you may want to ask them why they want to endanger police officers.  Maybe THEIR names should be published and posted in police precincts.  Oh, heavens no!  The implied threat against people named and that they might be denied police protection is unthinkable!  True.  It's a 2 way street, though, hoplophobe.  SO cut that crap out.

Or, we could just just publish the name, addresses, Social Security Numbers, and mother's maiden name of everyone that works at a MSM news purveyor like Associated Press.  If gun owners aren't entitled to privacy, why are they?

Ok, but once the cat is out of the bag and, say, every Maryland resident that bought a pistol in the last 15 years is published.  A very vocal a high profile shuffle would render that list useless.  By shuffle, I mean buy and resell immediately some gun inventory.  Yes it's expensive, all those extra transaction with taxes and fees and such, but it introduces so much gray area into the idea of the list as to make it worthless.  Doing this in defacto gun-registration states like Maryland, even selling through a FFL out of state, also renders a registry useless.  If you can't consider it useless already, now, for that exact reason.

In Illinois, to foil the list publishers and privacy violators, a big vocal drive to get as many people as possible set up with a Firearms Owner ID card.  You have to have them to buy a gun there, but you don't HAVE to buy a gun.  You could double the number of cards just by getting privacy advocates and rights advocates that like privacy but don't necessarily want to own a firearm.  That's fine too..