WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (Official Wire) — A New York newspaper that unleashed a public outcry after it published the names and addresses of residents with pistol permits is being protected by armed guards.
The guards have been posted at its White Plains headquarters and in a satellite office in West Nyack since last week, publisher Janet Hasson said. “The safety of my staff is my top priority,” she told The New York Times (http://nyti.ms/10QbMyS).
In December, the Journal News published online maps with the names and addresses of pistol permit holders in Rockland and Westchester counties, information it sought from public records after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
The newspaper’s database, which included an interactive map on the Gannet Co.-owned newspaper’s website lohud.com, sparked a torrent of criticism from across the country. Some said the publication was an invasion of privacy and could potentially put gun owners at risk. Others compared it to lists of sexual predators or other criminals, and said it was tantamount to presenting gun permit holders as wrongdoers.
Hasson said the newspaper knew the publication would be controversial, but that “we felt sharing information about gun permits in our area was important in the aftermath of the Newtown shootings.”
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Someone needs to throw a bunch of fire-crackers behind them! They’d move faster than a box of Ex-Lax! Wipe that smile right off their ugly faces!
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
Michael I LOVE,LOVE your comment. Thanks for the laugh of the day. It would be really funnier if someone did the same to ovomit! Just to wipe that idiot grin off of his arrogant,ugly face!
Oh and thanks for the advice on charities I’ll definitely check them out throughly from now on!
How pray tell did those geniuses reach the conclusion that “sharing information about gun permits in our area was important in the aftermath of the Newtown shootings.” It was never important but that wasn’t their objective. Their objective was to intentionally bring harm in some way to those honest law abiding citizens with gun permits because the paper’s publisher, Hasson, doesn’t agree that honest law abiding citizens should be allowed to have firearms for self protection. The elites always want everyone to be disarmed, that is everyone except them.
This was a clear cut case of abusing the First Amendment’s freedom of the press. Just another moron who would reach for a gun in a heartbeat to protect herself from harm as obviously she did once the information was published by calling in armed guards to shield the paper from what? Law abiding citizens? That’s how stupid leftists can be and are. They assume everyone regardless of who or what they are, if they own a firearm, even if its someone who has been licensed through a strict screening process, that person is nevertheless a threat to society. Words are insufficient to describe my distaste for leftists like this.
Was the Newtown massacre carried out by a law abiding licensed to carry permit holder? No. Has any such violent tragedy using a firearm ever been carried out by a law abiding licensed to carry permit holder? NEVER! Are those armed guards who were called in to protect the paper licensed to carry permit holders? Answer: YES! I would much prefer to live in a neighborhood where my neighbors are armed to the teeth than in one where the only people with access to a firearm for self protection were the police, the military and criminals. Ask the poor souls who live in despotic ruled countries how they like being disarmed and with thus no means to retake their country by force if need be? How did America gain its independence and become established as a free and prosperous country? With firearms in the hands of its honest freedom loving citizens in the then ragtag Continental Army under the leadership of a man who much preferred to be left alone to live in relative peace and quiet with his family on his farm on Mount Vernon, where he could go out and hunt occasionally using his musket if he so desired.
Those people don’t care for the US Constitution unless it works in their favor. They don’t care about anything unless it favors them It’s their way of creating their own man made utopia on earth, and they will admit they are in search of utopia on earth. Problem is there is this small stick in their path called, REALITY! And it is much more stable and less forgiving than all the man made utopia in the universe!
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
Smoki: So Very Well Put,, How Refreshing to Hear Someone that Makes Sense!! Don’t People Realize that Criminals Don’t Care How or Where they Get THEIR GUNS, THEY WILL GET THEM!! Too Many SHEEPLE!!!
All gun owners on the map should sue the newspaper and put it out of business. I don’t recommend suing for much, but this should be a number of suits that would swamp the legal team of the newspaper. Not a class action, every single person. Stupid paper.
What a bunch of Gutless wonders. Their Writers can place in danger lawful gun owners yet they are afraid of these very people whom they placed in danger. And i will bet no one has made a real threat either. Are any of the gun owners at their office making threats? probably not
OK- Now post a real picture of what is going on. There can’t possibly be that many guards in front of that little do nothing newspaper. I am for every legal citizen being armed 24/7. Schools, churches you name it. But it wont do any good to post pictures that are not true and accuract. Thats a lefty tactic, lets not go there.