Baltimore Sun Editor Calls for ‘Searchable Database’ of Gun Owners

By Kathryn Blackhurst

An editor from the Baltimore Sun called for the creation of a publicly available database listing gun owners and their respective locations in an opinion piece published Thursday in the wake of President Barack Obama’s announcement of an executive order calling for the expansion of background checks in gun sales.

In her piece titled “Do You Know the Gun Owners in Your Circle?” Sun editorial page deputy editor Tricia Bishop issued a bold claim, saying, “I’m less afraid of the criminals wielding guns in Baltimore … than I am by those permitted gun owners.”

Despite her lament that she had “the luxury of being white and middle class in a largely segregated city that reserves most of its shootings for poor, black neighborhoods overtaken by ‘the game,’” Bishop still maintained that, because she didn’t know ”where the legal gun owners are or how to ensure that their children, no matter how well versed in respecting firearms, won’t one day introduce that weapon to my daughter,” she could not escape a sense of unease.

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Source:: The Blaze