Mainstream media actively trying to get gun owners murdered

Mainstream media actively trying to get gun owners murdered by listing their home addresses


(NaturalNews) Fallout from the publication of the names and addresses of
some New York handgun permit holders by a local newspaper continues to
grow, as shock has turned to outrage amid calls for legal action against
the paper's editors.

As we reported earlier, The Journal News
made the incredibly stupid decision to publish the names of
handgun-permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties in New York
State.

The paper, which obtained permit-holder information
through a Freedom of Information Act request, immediately began
figuratively drawing fire from readers and other citizens concerned
about the blatant violation of a permit holder's Fourth Amendment right
to privacy - angst which has only exploded since (As an aside, those of
you who support gun registration need to consider the distinct
possibility that you could be just a FOIA request away from being outed as a gun owner to potential criminals and burglars).

Growing anger

AMI
Global Security, which published an article condemning the "massive
privacy breach" that is "meant to intimidate the lawful" and "abrogate
the Bill of Rights," gathered just a few of the initial comments:

It is as if they put out an ad to jewel thieves listing the names and addresses of where to find diamonds and cash.

Now
everyone knows where the LEGAL GUNS are kept, a valuable piece of
information for criminals. Why don't you do something helpful, like
trying to find out where the ILLEGAL GUNS are kept? That would be
helpful to the non-criminal population.

If the homeowner is killed or injured, will LOHUD be charged as an accomplice to the crime?

This
is CRAZY!! Why in the world would you post every licensed gun owner
information?? What do you hope to accomplish by doing this? This is the
type of thing you do for sex offenders not law abiding gun owners. What next? Should I hang a flag outside my house that says I own a gun?

The
gun owner has an added responsibility to take all measures that their
firearms do not fall into the hands of such miscreants. Beside the
natural precautions, they cannot permit themselves to fall hostage in
trade for access to their firearms locks.

The paper published the names and addresses of legal
handgun permit holders in the form of an interactive Web-based map;
when you click on a red dot signifying a permit holder, a window box
pops up providing the holder's name and address.

It's not the first time The Journal News has done something this callous and stupid regarding gun ownership; in 2006 the paper pulled a similar stunt, but only published permit holder's names and municipalities, not their specific addresses.

"This
is what I see," Scott F. Williams, 41, of Haddon Heights, N.J., near
Philadelphia, who served in the Marines as a rifleman, told the paper.
"It's all in the context of the shootings in Newtown ... it gets us all
talking about gun
control. That people are at a heightened concern makes sense to me. I am
a gun owner and a pro-Second-Amendment (person). I try to be rational."

But,
continuing, he described the paper's insane decision to publish names
and addresses "highly Orwellian" and simply "mind-boggling."

"It's
as if gun owners are sex offenders (and) to own a handgun risks
exposure as if one is a sex offender. It's, in my mind, crazy," he said,
according to the paper.

Is publication of names and addresses even legal?

The
map and accompanying short story were published under the headline:
"The Gun-Owner Next Door: What you don't know about the weapons in your
neighborhood." In trying to justify their horrendous decision, the
paper's editors explained it stemmed from the recent massacre of 20
Kindergarten children and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School
in nearby Newtown, Conn., in mid-December, and - supposedly - the
concern expressed by some area residents about which of their neighbors
might have guns (as if it that private information is any of their
business).

In our initial coverage of this story we advocated for the affected permit
holders to pursue some sort of legal action against this paper for what
appears to be a blatant violation of their constitutional right to
privacy.

The paper is defending its actions by noting that the information they published was legally obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request. But obtaining information and publishing said information are two separate issues and should be addressed as such.

In
that vein, we note that there is nothing in any report regarding this
story that says permit holders previously agreed to allow the
publication of their names and addresses as part of the process of
applying for and obtaining said permit. So we are in the process of
attempting to find out; we await answers from Rockland and Westchester
counties.

If gun permit holders in these counties are
consenting, as part of the application process, to allowing publication
of their names and addresses, we're betting most of them don't know that
- but should.


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