Every once in a while an issue comes up that pits some rights against others. HB 1065, which is legislation the Indiana State House passed and is now awaiting Governor Mitch Daniels’ signature is one of those pieces of legislation.
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(By Patrick Culley, a Hoosier Libertarian)
The government that governs least, governs best. Take Libertarian City-County Councillor Ed Coleman’s proposal to end the ban on firearms in city parks for example. Coleman’s timely proposal addresses a glaring problem with our city’s current laws. As it stands now, you have the right to defend your life from an armed assailant on the street, in a supermarket, in a department store, a state park, a federal park, just about everywhere except a city park. Are Indy’s public parks such utopian safe zones that you don’t need to worry about protecting yourself there? What makes a city park safer than a state or federal park where you are allowed the right to defend your life?
Let’s be clear: this proposal is not about “gun rights”. It’s about the most fundamental of human rights; the right to self defense.
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To the Editor of the Herald Times,
This letter is in reference to your creating of a database showing information about gun permits. What did you hope to accomplish when creating this database? Here are a few points that I don’t think you considered that I would like to point out to you:
1. Many who own guns do not have a hand gun permit; I am one of those people. Monroe County is a fairly rural county, and is home to many hunters. Your database really accomplishes nothing as far as showing where guns are in the city or county.
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Editor’s Note: Originally released by the NRA.
On November 30, 2009, the Bloomington Herald-Times made the following announcement:
“This week, HeraldTimesOnline.com will launch its new gun permit database. You’ll be able to search gun permit records by county, city or town and street.”
The Herald-Times has begun receiving calls and emails, and their response is a defiant defense of their online gun permit database. Anyone who visits the newspaper website will be able to search the number of permits on a given street or neighborhood. Although at this point the names and house numbers are not listed, the newspaper’s website treats law-abiding Indiana gun owners like sex offenders on a searchable database. Read the rest of this entry »
