Roanoe Times on Gun

Without Regard

Until just now at Kim's I completely missed that The Roanoke Times decided to publish the names of every Virginia CCW (Concealed Carry Weapon) permit holder.  That decision was made by a Times' editorial writer, Christian Trejbal.  Here's part of  Trejbal.'s working equation .. "A state that eagerly puts sex offender data online complete with an interactive map could easily do the same with gun permits, but it does not." The paper subsequently removed the list, I guess because the paper's BB contained comments like this: 'I’m sure you meant well and were thinking that you are contributing to public safety. You may want to consider that folks who have arrested and testified against dangerous criminals, ex police officers witnesses, women hiding from abusive violent spouses, and others with real security issues, may have gun permits.... Likewise I’m sure you don’t mean to give burglars a list of where to steal a gun, which is what you have done. Next year why don’t you publish a list of recently released criminals with their names addresses and convicted offenses, that way you would be helping law abiding citizens protect themselves, and doing an actual community service. Take care and sleep easy tonight, because after all you aren’t on that list. But, do you know what shocked me even more? Only 2 percent of Virginians, 135,789 people, want a carry permit.  I would have guessed maybe 17-22%.  I'm very surprised. BTW, Kim urges people to send Trejbal.a responsible  letter about your feelings on the matter, and includes his home address, something I would normally  be appalled over, but not in this instance. Not after he exposed 135,789 Virginians to the will and whimsy of that state's substantil population of Starkly mad leftwing lunatics.