Gun Geo

[Ret10Echo]

I find this concerning....

Considering the App that pointed out "high-crime" neighborhoods (based upon statistics) was quashed..link..this thing is off the charts in comparison

Gun Geo Marker app tries to locate homes, businesses of gun owners


By Jeremy A. Kaplan
Published July 11, 2013
FoxNews.com
A new Android app asks users to expose the home addresses of gun owners they deem “potentially unsafe” -- and share that information with the world.

The Gun Geo Marker app, released to Google’s Play app store on July 7, invites users to mark the homes and businesses of “suspected unsafe gun owners … to help others in the area learn about their geography of risk from gun accidents or violence.

Story here

[albeham]

another feel good..OMG!!! we need to do something!!! bag of tricks.

Why do the sheep feel that having information helps?


AL

[Streck-Fu]

invites users to mark the homes and businesses of “suspected unsafe gun owners

Sounds like a thief's perfect tool....

...And anyone can input anyone's address without any oversight.....

[Badger52]

From the app developer's push-back:

"As a gun owner myself, I want to see our rights preserved, and thwarting the will of 90 percent of the American people who want common sense, Constitutional measures to improve gun safety..."

See any commonly trotted-out rhetoric there?

[Streck-Fu]

Sounds like someone only claiming to be a gun owner.

[Ret10Echo]

Originally Posted by Streck-Fu

Sounds like someone only claiming to be a gun owner.

Brett Stalbaum, the developer of Gun Geo Marker and a lecturer with the Visual Arts department of the University of California, San Diego, said he had received threats over the app

• Kalifornian
  
• Academic
  
• Visual Arts
  
• Gun owner???????

Agree.

I don't want to perpetuate a stereotype....but....seriously?

So can an App developer be held liable?

[Barbarian]

Would be interesting to see the nations gun owners use the app to list the homes and businesses of known libs.

[Paslode]

No one in my immediate area has guns.......but within 10 miles there is one tagged as a 'Anti-Government/Terror Threat' and another tagged as 'Out of Place, Large Arsenal'.

The 'Out of Place, Large Arsenal' tag is in the approximate area of a Class III/NFA dealer.


This app is run on Google Maps so it shouldn't be too long before you can get a street view.

[MiTTMedic]

Calling someone unsafe to own arms would open up a slander lawsuit, IMO.

Aiding theifs in firarm theft would be another lawsuit, IMO.

I'm not sue-happy, but I would to prove a point & maybe prevent some from thinking about making said information public.

[Paslode]

The app limits how often you can tag or mark a location. I marked the local PoPo and then the app shut down my ability to mark locations.

[Oldrotorhead]

Originally Posted by Barbarian

Would be interesting to see the nations gun owners use the app to list the homes and businesses of known libs.

Yes! The more bad address people add to this the better. Add a note that large amounts of cash are also sored at these addresses.

[Pete]

Hmm, as a thief looking for a target which house would you choose?

I'm willing to bet not the house marked on the app as "Crazy Survivalist with cleared fields of fire out to the street."

[MiTTMedic]

Originally Posted by Pete

Hmm, as a thief looking for a target which house would you choose?

I'm willing to bet not the house marked on the app as "Crazy Survivalist with cleared fields of fire out to the street."

BUT, that might get you broken into when you are at work.

[Pete]

Originally Posted by MiTTMedic

BUT, that might get you broken into when you are at work.

My work desk is about 8 feet from the front door.

Besides I have DBD Security Service


DBD - Darn Big Dawgs

[rubberneck]

I'm going to build an app that allows users to identify home owners that don't take home security seriously. I'll start with an uber liberal neighbor who never locks her door. I wonder how long would it take before apple or google pulls the app citing safety concerns.