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The 2nd Amendment, Gun Control, and Cyber-stalking

I hate to do this my first weekend back, but I am hopping mad and need to vent.

Not five minutes ago, a now-ex-Facebook friend shared a photo with me.

The photo was the portrait, home address and home phone number of a newspaper publisher who is ardently pro-gun control.  The original post tracks back to someone who appears to be on the political far-right.

Now, I am not anti-2nd Amendment.  I’ve done my share of target-plinking.  My husband has hunting rifles and shotguns, and he learned to hunt from his dad, who provides us with venison every deer season.  I don’t have an issue with people who have revolvers, hunting arms, black powder, or even semi-auto pistols.  

I do think there is a strong argument to be made in favor of restricting high-capacity firearms such as the Bushmaster, and armor-piercing ammunition, and closing the gun show loopholes.  Anyone who has to go hunting with a 30-round magazine is no hunter.  Go shoot skeet instead — and oh, you only need a shotgun for that.  

Both sides have a right to debate the issue.  Where I draw the line is when personal information like a portrait photo, phone number and home address gets posted publicly on Facebook by someone with an axe to grind.  This is cyber-stalking.  It can get people killed.

I did what I could:  I reported it to Facebook, made an immediate posting denouncing the tactic, found the employer’s Facebook page and sent them an email asking them to warn their employee.  I then went back to my page to go delete the individual from my friends list, only to find the individual in question had beaten me to it.  Good riddance.

Right now I am as angry as I have been in a very long time.  Stalking of any sort makes my blood boil.  

Thanks for listening and letting me vent.


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  2. GlenThePlumber

    sadly the people who most fight for gun rights are the very people that probably should not have them.

    anger management needed.

  3. Lightbulb

    It’s always been a practice of the far right to go after journalists, and newspaper people that they disagree with, and target them in aggressive and violent ways. Glad you reported it, and I hope action is taken.

  4. SallyCat

    acts by cowards that would pee their pants if ever confronted with real fear. On FB all we can do is report and watch.  Someone was bullying my grandson, using friends of friends access. Be careful and watch the access.

    Thanks for reporting to help someone. Rant was spot on.

  6. Chris Blask

    There is a lot of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) among the gun culture right now. Fear that gun control will go overboard (it won’t), uncertainty as to whether parts of their hobby will become unattainable (it may) and doubt about what is going to happen next. Folks like your husband and father in law probably aren’t FUDing right now, as most of the gun people I know are not either.

    But those who own guns out of fear in the first place, well, they have a head start. They can be dangerous.

    Of all the gun people I know (lots) the majority aren’t those people. Some are. The latter are folks who I wish could come to realize they are not in so much danger to begin with, but by nature they aren’t likely to get to that realization.

    We have to keep them from dominating the conversation. As you say, there is plenty of reason and room to have rational conversations. I would like to see the gun show loophole closed once and for all if nothing else, that’s not even contentious. Either we have background checks or we don’t, no reason having any if anyone can just walk around them.

  7. kestrel9000

    that printed the map showing who-all had gun permits and where they lived?

    Do you not condemn that as well?

    I do.  

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