INDIANAPOLIS - Public access to the state database of people with permits to carry guns would be closed under a bill on its way to the floor of the Indiana House.
The bill was filed following complaints over newspaper stories that used information from the database to scrutinize how gun permits are issued, including one that found a permit wound up in the hands of a man who had pressed the barrel of a loaded handgun into the chest of a woman holding a baby.
Just yesterday we were discussing this. I failed to receive an answer to my question put to Sebastian, but directed also to any number of other pro-gun bloggers who seemed to be mistaken about the nature of these disclosures.
My questions were these:
Are they talking about a different Indiana newspaper, do you think? Or could they have been mistaken in their understanding of what actually the Indy Star was doing?
The Chicago Tribune says this:
Neither the Indianapolis Star nor The Herald-Times of Bloomington, which used the database as a source for stories, published names and addresses of people who had concealed-weapon permits.
So why all the secrecy? And in order to achieve the secrecy, why was it necessary to exaggerate the offense? Isn't it a good thing to bring this "shall issue" business out into the open? Aren't the gun owners themselves concerned with the quality of people who carry guns in Indiana?
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
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