The anti's have a new weapon

kurt555gs · Jul 9, 2013

An app to geo-locate "dangerous guns and gun owners". This app allows anyone to mark addresses of "potential dangerous gun owners" through crowd-sourcing. I smell Bloomberg funding.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.ucsd.visarts.walkingtools.gungeomarker

Privacy? Gone.

This is their website: http://gungeomarker.org/

OldCurlyWolf · Jul 9, 2013

I want to be there when an owner brings suit because some BG used their information to target his house looking for firearms. I would love to bring charges of Aiding and Abetting before the fact on the site and whomever tags a home or business.

Super6O · Jul 9, 2013

One could always flood the area around their address with the same tags so it essentially becomes a guessing game again and BG's cant make heads or tails of it.

Suckerspawn · Jul 9, 2013

The user's reviews are not at all favorable.

March Hare · Jul 9, 2013

I'm installing the app and tagging every place I visit, walk past or even think about going to.
Flooding it with worthless information will make it worse than useless.

Okay, how about a little competition, see which city, county or state can get completely filled in first?

Come on people, I know we can do it, it will be fun!

By the way, the comments left for the app are hilarious!

-MH

p.s. Don't forget the donut shops...

EMNofSeattle · Jul 9, 2013

this sounds pretty useful, has anyone reported a dangerous gun owner at 1600 Penn Avenue, District of Columbia yet?

J1MB0B · Jul 9, 2013

If you look up the app in the play store, you can flag it as inappropriate. I chose hateful and abusive content.

Edit to add: I looked it up on my phone, the flag button is all the way at the bottom.

Also, might it be better to only tag the places known to be anti?

bbMurphy · Jul 9, 2013

March Hare said:
(snip)I'm installing the app and tagging every place I visit, walk past or even think about going to.
Flooding it with worthless information will make it worse than useless.

Would love to see a couple of special homes/offices up in NY tagged with this if you get my drift...

eye95 · Jul 9, 2013

How about an app that tags the homes of all the antis. Don't you think that thugs have a right to know into which homes they can break without fear of being shot?

The best idea posted so far is that we all get the app and tag the hell outta homes randomly.

Griz · Jul 10, 2013

It will be useless in the area I live. Almost everyone has a gun, and most everyone knows that everyone else has a gun.

I imagine it will be the same for many other regions as well.

FlyBoy276 · Jul 10, 2013

kurt555gs said:
...This is their website: http://gungeomarker.org/

I have failed to find a cite of what they are trying to accomplish with this program.

tomrkba · Jul 10, 2013

Pollute the data and it becomes useless.

BriKuz · Jul 10, 2013

they got slashdotted... but it seems that the slashdot people are kinda tearing into the "its for the children" and "it is NEVER right to kill" arguments...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/07/09/136236/ucsd-lecturer-releases-geotagging-application-for-dangerous-guns-and-owners#

J1MB0B · Jul 10, 2013

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/07...te-homes-businesses-gun-owners/#ixzz2Ygtry6eq

From the article:
"The gun rights community has been busy making personal threats (we remain unconcerned), as well as spamming the Gun Geo Marker database with false markers," he exclusively told FoxNews.com. "Though these fake markers are not useful for identifying dangerous guns and owners, they are certainly representative of the highly paranoid reaction we have come to expect from any attempt to improve gun safety in the United States.

4angrybadgers · Jul 12, 2013

FlyBoy276 said:
I have failed to find a cite of what they are trying to accomplish with this program.

http://gungeomarker.org/gun-marking-guidelines/

The claim is they want only "unsafe or dangerous" gun owners marked.

I love how the author begins by stating you "should always be guided by your understanding of the second amendment to the United States Constitution" when using the app, then launches into the typical anti-pretending-to-be-a-rights-lover "keep them locked up correctly - for the kids!" nonsense.

Can I throw in a few more rolleyes?

FlyBoy276 · Jul 12, 2013

the webmaster of the app's website said:
The project made slashdot, with an odd comment. Yes, I guess this is the same as “publicly geotag homes of people believed to belong to a particular religion”. True enough, if your religion requires live child sacrifices to appease a cold, tubular god.

Well, that says a lot about this program's author.

Maverick9 · Jul 12, 2013

Number of antis who would like to kill gun owners - high
Number of gun owners who care what antis think - low
Number of gun owners who wish harm to antis - zero
Number of gun owners who would actually protect an anti if in life threatening situation - moderately high

Conclusion - an app to tag violent, histrionic, hysteria prone individuals - priceless.

We-the-People · Jul 14, 2013

March Hare said:
I'm installing the app and tagging every place I visit, walk past or even think about going to.
Flooding it with worthless information will make it worse than useless.

Okay, how about a little competition, see which city, county or state can get completely filled in first?

Come on people, I know we can do it, it will be fun!

By the way, the comments left for the app are hilarious!

-MH

p.s. Don't forget the donut shops...

That's exactly what I was thinking. Starting with Bloomberg's house. Then the anti politicians in all the states, Brady Bunch folks, etc.

eye95 · Jul 14, 2013

Unfortunately, I don't do Android.

If there is another way to contribute every "gun-free zone," I will be happy to tag the hell outta my environs.

Anybody tag Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, or Fort Hood yet? Very gun-dangerous places, those!

We-the-People · Jul 14, 2013

eye95 said:
Unfortunately, I don't do Android.

If there is another way to contribute every "gun-free zone," I will be happy to tag the hell outta my environs.

Anybody tag Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, or Fort Hood yet? Very gun-dangerous places, those!

Yes, I would say anywhere that there is a "gun free" zone......every post office, every federal building..........every mall......every Costco......every Peet's Coffee......every police station......and most certainly every City Hall or other legislative body where dangerous gun control laws originate.

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