Gun Geo

Ret10Echo · 07-11-2013, 05:41

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

Quote:

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 · 07-11-2013, 05:48

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

Why do the sheep feel that having information helps?

AL

Streck-Fu · 07-11-2013, 05:58

Quote:

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 · 07-11-2013, 05:59

From the app developer's push-back:

Quote:

"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 · 07-11-2013, 06:03

Sounds like someone only claiming to be a gun owner.

Ret10Echo · 07-11-2013, 06:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Streck-Fu

Sounds like someone only claiming to be a gun owner.

Quote:

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 · 07-11-2013, 06:24

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

Paslode · 07-11-2013, 06:37

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.