Did you see this?
This solidifies my case for NEVER registering any fire arms.
Agreed, though since I'm an open carrier, it's a well-established known fact that I pack.
1. This makes non gun owners "sitting ducks" for criminals.
2.
Names and address of cops, judges, current and retired, are also
listed making this information supposedly very dangerous for our
invincible "heroes." (My heart breaks.)
3. I just heard on CNN that an attorney posted on his blog the names and addresses of the editor and authors of that story.
Michael Mullins
A suburban New York City newspaper published an interactive map
showing the addresses of thousands of local residents with handgun
permits and has drawn flak from gun owners, some of whom expressed their
anger via the newspaper's Facebook page.
The Monday article in The Journal News was headlined "The gun owner
next door: What you don't know about the weapons in your neighborhood,"
and was in response to the Dec. 14 school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
"Do you fools realize that you also made a map for criminals to use
to find homes to rob that have no guns in them to protect themselves?
What a bunch of liberal boobs you all are," wrote one reader.
The sentiments were echoed by another, who wrote, "How dare you
guys. You have just destroyed the privacy of these law-abiding citizens
and by releasing this list, you have equated them to that of sex
offenders and murders. These are law-abiding gun owners, they are no
danger to anyone except for criminals. And with this information you
have made them targets for both criminals and anti-gun lobbyist who I am
sure are going to treat them like monsters. I hope you are sued for
infringing on the privacy rights of every single one of these citizens
you have just put in harm's way."
One reader, in an attempt to "turn the tables on the Journal and
see how they like it," posted the home addresses of the newspaper's
president, top editors, and the reporter who wrote the story.
The gun registration information, which is available to the public,
was obtained by The Journal News through a through a Freedom of
Information Act request.
On Tuesday, in an article written by Journal News Reporter Randi
Weiner, the paper defended its decision to post the addresses of handgun
permit holders across Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam Counties, the
northern suburbs of New York City where the paper is read.
"We knew publication of the database would be controversial, but we
felt sharing as much information as we could about gun ownership in our
area was important in the aftermath of the Newtown shootings," Weiner
quoted CynDee Royle, editor and vice president of the newspaper. "People
are concerned about who owns guns and how many of them there are in
their neighborhoods."
Royle said that a freedom of information request seeking the
specifics on how many and what types of weapons were owned by people in
the above mentioned counties was denied.
"New York residents have the right to own guns with a permit and
they also have a right to access public information," said Janet Hasson,
president and publisher of The Journal News Media Group.
According to the paper, the controversial map has been recommended on Facebook more than 20,000 times as of Tuesday.
