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Well, my 1st response is that this has a huge potential for an invasion of privacy of fairness and exactly how far government can inject itself into the private sector and citizens personal lives.

OSU is quite involved with this project and has supplied prototypes for the GPS model the state used for its testing.
( http://mime.oregonstate.edu/news/story/696 )

The state proposes / recommends that this be applied to new cars only. I do not want to see anything installed in a vehicle without the decision of the owner with the potential of being tracked anywhere for any reason.

Here is a link to this project:

http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/RUFPP/mileage.shtml

I personally don't want anything in my vehicle that has the potential for governmental abuse. I don't think that the accuracy is fine enough to accurately be measured (a margin of error of a few feet adds up to mile rather quickly when a person drives any distance)

I also don't like the additional overhead of parallel systems to administer two systems to cover new and old cars.

This is a bad idea and needs to be scrapped.

posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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I am waiting to receive my permit in the mail as I write this. I made the choose to pursue this permit after a considerable amount of thought and deliberation. I chose to do this for a variety of reasons and took the training required to apply for this permit very seriously.

I absolutely do not want anyone other than the people I choose to know about what firearms I own or carry.

Posting personal information in the public domain regarding a person?s firearms is a highly dangerous thing. It exposes me (anyone with the permit) to potential attack, both personally and professionally.

We have mechanisms in place to guard our personal information (HIPPA, Privacy Act of 1971 etc.), why can't we use the same common sense about something as potentially deadly as defending ones home against a burglary that wouldn't have happened had the perpetrator not known there was a weapon present?

KayakDawn listed some very valid reasons below that none of us should have to contend with for exercising our rights under the 2nd amendment.

Leave this private matter private!

posted 3 years, 5 months ago
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