Controversial New App Encourages People to Flag Gun Owners

[Windwalker]

Controversial New App Encourages People to Flag Gun Owners, Businesses as ‘Dangerous’ and ‘Unsafe’
Jul. 10, 2013 5:05pm Jason Howerton

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/10/need-to-track-dangerous-guns-and-owners-theres-an-app-for-that/

A new Android app reportedly developed by University of San Diego lecturer Brett Stallbaum apparently allows people to “Geolocate Dangerous Guns and Owners.”

The app, titled “Gun Geo Marker,” literally pinpoints the locations of homes, businesses and other sites where “dangerous” guns might be located. The controversial app was released on July 4, 2013.

New App Allows People to Geolocate Gun Owners

The app’s description states:

    The Gun Geo Marker operates very simply, letting parents and community members mark, or geolocate, sites associated with potentially unsafe guns and gun owners. These locations are typically the homes or businesses of suspected unsafe gun owners, but might also be public lands or other locations where guns are not handled safely, or situations where proper rights to own or use any particular type of firearm may not exist. Electronically marking these locations can help others in the area learn about their geography of risk from gun accidents or violence. No matter what your safety concern with firearms might be, you should feel free to use this tool to provide the most accurate information you can such that others can make their own safety decisions.

“The general guideline is that you should mark any location about which you have a gun related concern, while trying to provide enough extra information for others to make their own determination about safety,” the app’s website states.

In other words, a home, business or gun owner could be determined to be “unsafe” just because someone flags them as such.

The move is similar to the controversial decision to publish the names and addresses of gun owners in New York by the Journal News.

Unsurprisingly, some of the same households listed on the “gun map” were later burglarized. Further, a criminal went straight for a homeowners guns in one case.

Americans across the country have decried publishing gun owners’ personal information as an invasion of privacy and a danger to the families. Even former criminals have admitted that it is like “gold” to know who is armed and who isn’t.

For all those that are being pinned and identified on this app they need to put a sign in their yard saying
"Yes I do own guns HOWEVER MY ANTI-GUN NEIGHBOR DOESN'T SO GO AHEAD AND BREAK INTO HIS HOUSE YOU'RE SAFE!!!

[Skillet]

Easy way to fix this guy's wagon.  Everybody should download the app, and flag every single house, park, school, store, etc.  Every single address you can.  Flood the app with bad information to dilute the intended purpose of fear mongering.   It will render any attempt by gun grabbers to do real harm to honest, law abiding, gun-owning citizens moot.
 

[huntnphool]

  They can browse through their app while sipping their Double Tall Cappuccino, Extra Dry in the gun friendly Starbucks.

[Bob33]

It will be about as effective as putting a national park on the moon will be.

[Heredoggydoggy]

OOO!  OOO!  Flag Me!  Flag Me!      

[bearpaw]

Easy way to fix this guy's wagon.  Everybody should download the app, and flag every single house, park, school, store, etc.  Every single address you can.  Flood the app with bad information to dilute the intended purpose of fear mongering.   It will render any attempt by gun grabbers to do real harm to honest, law abiding, gun-owning citizens moot.
 

   great plan

[SemperFidelis97]

Make sure you  flag every school, movie theater, post office, and of course Starbucks you see.  T

[pianoman9701]

Make sure you  flag every school, movie theater, post office, and of course Starbucks you see.  T

Don't flag Starbucks. They support gun rights.

[Old Man Yager]

If they flag us then they will know where to run to when the S**t hits the fan. What a dumb ass.

[12Gauge]

I wonder how did this Jack O' hole determine "Unsafe guns",  did he go to every gun owner to check if the gun was on safe or was it inside the safe or stolen?      What a freaking moron.

We all know that the most dangerous place is the "GUN FREE ZONE" 

[pips4bucks]

OOO!  OOO!  Flag Me!  Flag Me!      

I'm gonna download it and flag every gym in the county.... 

[pianoman9701]

OOO!  OOO!  Flag Me!  Flag Me!      

I'm gonna download it and flag every gym in the county.... 

Funny, it never occurred to me that guns would be prohibited from 24 Hour Fitness. I just read the rules and they are. Great, another place at which I either have to break the rules or be defenseless. Hmm, I wonder which it'll be?

[huntnphool]

OOO!  OOO!  Flag Me!  Flag Me!      

I'm gonna download it and flag every gym in the county.... 

Funny, it never occurred to me that guns would be prohibited from 24 Hour Fitness. I just read the rules and they are. Great, another place at which I either have to break the rules or be defenseless. Hmm, I wonder which it'll be?

Find a different gym.

[magnanimous_j]

Easy way to fix this guy's wagon.  Everybody should download the app, and flag every single house, park, school, store, etc.  Every single address you can.  Flood the app with bad information to dilute the intended purpose of fear mongering.   It will render any attempt by gun grabbers to do real harm to honest, law abiding, gun-owning citizens moot.
 

Excellent plan. I'll start doing my part ASAP.

[headshot5]

Funny, it never occurred to me that guns would be prohibited from 24 Hour Fitness. I just read the rules and they are. Great, another place at which I either have to break the rules or be defenseless. Hmm, I wonder which it'll be?

I'm pretty sure they aren't prohibited.  Don't you go there to make them bigger?