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Some website I’ve never heard of has an article about a couple of college kids that sued their campus and won the right to protest.  They’re doing empty holster protests, which is cool.  None of that is the fail.  The fail is that if you click the article, the picture shows someone with their finger on the trigger of their gun.

I hope it’s a stock photo.  I really do.  You want to know why?  Because if it’s not a stock photo, that means that one of those kids posed for that picture and didn’t have the presence of mind to not put his booger hook on the bang switch.  But hey, maybe it’s a stock photo that the website just threw up there because it’s the only one they had of someone with a gun.

Of course, if that is the case then it’s also fail, because the website really needs to find pictures of people that know what they’re doing.

Update: In the comments, it’s been confirmed as a stock photo.  I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that a media outlet would use that photo.

Here at Gun Nuts Media, we are committed to your safety, which is why we’re offering this update to our Authorized Journalist Database for the Bloomington, IN area.  Now you’ll be able to see on which streets journalists live, and where they congregate so that for your safety you can avoid these areas.

Obviously, we’re providing this a public service to our readers, but there’s more to it than that. You’ll notice on the map that I haven’t published street numbers (with the exception of the business address). The reason for that is that the Herald Times maintains that because they’re not publishing street numbers, that their database is safe. If you look at the map, you’ll see what a crock that is – even in Bloomington, some of the streets that have “reporters” living on them have a very small number of houses.

Contact your legislators today and ask them to support legislation that makes the permit holder database private information.

As a service to my fellow Hoosiers, I felt inspired by the recent events in Bloomington; the decision of the Herald Time to create and publish their Indiana carry permit database has lead me to believe that a similar and much more important service should be offered to Hoosiers.  We’ll start off with Bloomington first, and then gradually expand the database as necessary.  What we would do is create a list, a “registry” or sorts, where you’ll be able to go to our web site and make sure that your neighborhood is safe.  Here at Gun Nuts, we’ll provide a street listing so you can know how many reporters and editorial staff live in your neighborhood.

Please note, that all information was obtained via public records; in fact most of them were acquired by looking up certain people in the phone book.

Our first inductees into the Indiana Authorized Journalist Database or “IAJD” for short are all staff at the Herald Times, coincidentally the same paper that is publishing a concealed carry database.  Here are names of the “first additions” to our database:

• Scott C Schurz, President
• Bob Zaltsberg, Editor
• Todd Davidson, Digital Media Director
• Andrea M Murray, Managing Editor

Now, our first four additions all share a common business address.  So if you live in the are of 1900 S. Walnut Street, Bloomington, IN 47401 be warned.  That’s the headquarters (makes it sound like a lair of villains) of the Bloomington Herald at 1900 S. Walnut Street.

Now here are the major streets we’ve discovered that have authorized journalists.

• East Dekist Street: 1 journalist
• East Pine Lane: 1 journalist
• East Sheridan Drive: 1 journalist
• East Davis Street: 1 journalist

Now, since we didn’t publish names and house numbers, there’s no danger right?  I mean, that’s what the Herald Times said about their database.  By their logic, there is just NO POSSIBLE WAY my database could be abused for nefarious purposes, because I made sure to not link any names to specific addresses.

The point of all of this is to show the HTO that the knife cuts in both directions.  Carry permit holders are law abiding citizens, and to treat us like sex offenders by putting us in some “carry permit database” that you stick in the “Crimes” section of your website is not only insulting, it’s reprehensible.  So Herald Times, as they say: tit for tat.  If you don’t like what you see here, then just pull your registry down.

Update: The Indiana Authorize Journalist Database is now interactive! See in Google Maps which streets in your neighborhood have dangerous and uncontrollable “journalists” on them. Is your street safe? Find out here!