app asks users to expose the home addresses of gun owners

[okietool]

I don't like this very much.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/07...-tries-to-locate-homes-businesses-gun-owners/

I wonder how long it will be before apple adds this to their app store?

 

[AtomicTango]

Yikes, just went and found it in the app store. WTF are the people who made this thinking? I'm gonna go make my own app, where you can geo locate idiots, but I'll only put one marker on it for this guy.

Must be, you know, for the kids...

 

[B Gordon]

In Oklahoma the pins would be on nearly every house.
Heck, even my 80 year old neighbor has a double barrel shotgun she keeps propped in a corner.
She told me to come over and get it if she ever gets taken away by an ambulance so it won't get stolen.
Smart old lady too.
Feeble but her brain is sharp.

 

[spamby]

Maybe we can add his address and his family's addresses into his app so that he and they can be targeted just like everyone else that ends up on it.

 

[AtomicTango]

My favorite review so far:

"Gotta Move the Cache. Some idiot went and marked my granny's grave. I mean, how did they know that I had ol' granny cremated so I could use the grave to hide all my weapons? That was a total secret."

 

[Buddhaman]

Seems like a liberal trolling for a reaction. "Oh look, I just wanted to make your neighborhoods safer and I'm getting all these threats. Gun owners are a violent bunch!"

 

[Sanford]

Seems like a liberal trolling for a reaction. "Oh look, I just wanted to make your neighborhoods safer and I'm getting all these threats. Gun owners are a violent bunch!"

"Secondly, the App was a honeypot. As a gun owner myself, I am all too aware of a smaller component of the community that sees any attempt at improving gun safety as an affront to their second amendment rights. Reasonable regulations that do not interfere with anyone’s second amendment rights – such as universal background checks and trigger locks when guns are unattended in the presence of children – are needed to help abate the gun violence epidemic in this country. But some places in the United States seem committed to going in the opposite direction, as in Florida where a law was passed preventing medical doctors from asking about gun safety in the home as they might about swimming pool safety. So, the project is also a culture-jamming exercise intended to draw out earnest expressions from the radical anti-gun-safety community, expressions that will now become part of a second phase of the project which involves aesthetic manifestations. The app itself will remain online for a time so that people can play with the user interface, after which it will morph into a purely “documentation” application about the project."