Max Brantley Faced the Firing Squad This Morning on KARN (UPDATE – Bill to be Filed)
Max Brantley has received quite a bit of criticism lately for an item he posted on his blog two weeks ago. Brantley was inspired by a stunt pulled by the Memphis Commercial Appeal which published the list of the Tennessee Concealed Carry Permit holders resulting in nearly a half million hits to their website. Apparently Brantley, thought this sounded good to him plus he got to give some heat to the Arkansas gun carrying crowd, so he followed suit publishing the Arkansas list on his Ark Times Blog in an excel file on February 16. After several days of exposing, the name and home address information of every Arkansas concealed carry permit holder, he pulled it down.
Appearing on KARN (audio at link) this morning, Brantley faced numerous outraged callers who questioned his motives for posting the data. Brantley said that he felt this information, which can easily be obtained, was important for the public to know. “I think we need to know who among us is walking around with a gun,” stated Brantley. Several callers said they were concerned that their unlisted address had been compromised by the posting. One caller said that she runs a mission that ministers to indigent people and that she has a unlisted address for her safety and this information was compromised by Brantley’s action.
Brantley said that in spite of the criticism, including personal threats against him and his family, he does not regret posting the information and if faced with the choice, he would do it again.
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UPDATE - David Kinkade wakes up from his nap to post on The Arkanas Project that Rep. Randy Stewart will file a bill tomorrow “to prohibit the release of the identities or other information concerning concealed handgun licensees with an exception for law enforcement agencies.”
February 24th, 2009 at 9:34 am
New blog post: Max Brantley Faced the Firing Squad This Morning on KARN http://tinyurl.com/bqek3z
February 24th, 2009 at 10:16 am
[...] on his blog, and The Tolbert Report has the story. So if you’re following this, Tolbert posted on his blog about the experience of listening to Max talk about his blog on the radio. Try to wrap your head around that. (The Tolbert [...]
February 24th, 2009 at 10:35 am
[...] on his blog, and The Tolbert Report has the story. So if you’re following this, Tolbert posted on his blog about the experience of listening to Max talk about his blog on the radio. Try to wrap your head around that. (The Tolbert [...]
February 24th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Max is an idiot. I met years back and he was an idiot then. Seems like he is still an idiot.
February 25th, 2009 at 8:42 am
[...] You’ll remember Max Brantley published a list of Arkansas handgun carry permit holders in some alt-weekly. And, by golly, if there wasn’t some uproar and then a bill proposed to make this illegal. [...]
February 25th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
[...] Also on the gun front, and as expected, a bill was filed today to close the names of concealed weapons holders from public inspection. Mad Max Brantley of the Arkansas Times has been on this issue for a while, even venturing into KARN-land to take calls from listeners about his position in favor of inspection. This led to, among other things, threating letters to Mr. Brantley and his family. [...]