tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post4461861801017330793..comments2023-10-31T05:07:19.353-04:00Comments on Delenda est Carthago: Harassment Geo MarkersDr. Φhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14086783503820477029noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-34618296933058057462013-10-08T22:45:45.697-04:002013-10-08T22:45:45.697-04:00"In my state (Delaware), in order to get a CC..."In my state (Delaware), in order to get a CCDW license, you must first publish a classified ad in the newspaper stating your name and home address."<br /><br />Wow. If you assent to this then there is nothing left to argue about.månesteinerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14442277691860213285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-5639018079798463432013-10-08T09:15:10.059-04:002013-10-08T09:15:10.059-04:00The great thing about those feel-good data bases i...The great thing about those feel-good data bases is that you can load them up with all your hoplophobe neighbors. People who create such data bases never think through the reliability of the data source.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-39864584601530538022013-10-08T06:03:47.826-04:002013-10-08T06:03:47.826-04:00Mark: Ha! If this is the story from May, it'...Mark: Ha! If this is the story from May, it's amazing how lthe media took ZERO interest in the connection with the ads.<br /><br />The Delaware policy is downright perverse, and constitutionally suspect.Dr. Φhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14086783503820477029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-48953478778375678562013-10-07T21:52:26.318-04:002013-10-07T21:52:26.318-04:00I've got a victimization anecdote for you: In...I've got a victimization anecdote for you: In my state (Delaware), in order to get a CCDW license, you must first publish a classified ad in the newspaper stating your name and home address. (That's in addition to the fingerprints, the references from five of your neighbors, the training class, etc.) A few years after I got my license, my house was burglarized in the middle of the day while I was at work, and the only items stolen were a $25 wristwatch and three handguns. The long guns in the same cabinet were untouched, as were plenty of other items with illegal resale value. <br /><br />After the cops left, I went next door to ask my neighbor, who was home on disability at the time, if she had seen or heard anything. She hadn't, but mentioned that she had been burglarized several weeks previously (which I knew) and that her revolver had been stolen (which I didn't know). I went through the newspaper's archives, and sure enough, she had placed the same ad several years earlier. <br /><br />A couple months later, the cops caught the people who did it. A public school teacher with a unique surname, a heroin habit and a felon for a boyfriend. They had knocked over about two dozen houses in the county. They were both out of prison within six years. One of my guns was found at a crime scene in a big city in another state; in theory, I get it back once the trial ends, which I expect will be right about when hell freezes over. <br /><br />The funny piece of all this is that under our state Freedom of Information Act, the names and addresses of CCDW licensees are *not* public records subject to disclosure. They're specifically carved out. Too bad the same information is available to anyone who wants it from the archives of our local Gannett rag. (The perps took a plea, so the prosecutors didn't bother establishing whether they picked their targets by looking through the newspaper archives; heck of a coincidence, though, that they just happened to pick the two houses in our smallish subdivision where residents had applied for CCDW licenses.) <br /><br />So when the Gannett folks started publishing names and addresses of licensees in NY State last year, I took it a bit personally.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05050722909694512676noreply@blogger.com