As the result of the recent Newtown, Connecticut shootings, the White-Plains, New York newspaper The Journal News (at lohud.com) published the article “The gun owner next door: What you don’t know about the weapons in your neighborhood.”
The point of the article was this:
“I would love to know if someone next to me had guns. It makes me safer to know so I can deal with that,” said Thompson, whose group counsels youths against gun violence. “I might not choose to live there.”
That is: according to the author, Dwight Worley, people need to know who has a gun in their home so that potential neighbors can decide to avoid that person and/or area. The further intimation being: because you can never quite tell when that heinous gun owner will uncork and shoot up the community.
Using the Freedom of Information Act, the article also included an interactive graphic that displays the specific name, address and telephone number of those persons holding firearms permits in Rockland and Westchester counties in New York state. See: “Map: Where are the gun permits in your neighborhood?”
Weasel Zippers weighed in here on the matter originally.
But wait; there’s more. Weasel Zippers then thought it would be appropriate to reveal the address and phone number of the article’s author, Worley, along with those of the newspaper’s president and editors. That article is here.
A bit of tit-for-tat, so to speak.
Because I’m certain those journalists would want their personal information displayed on the internet for all to see as much as lawful gun owners would.
As does The Politico, whose bias is indicated by its title: “Right up in arms over paper’s gun map.”
Anyone besides me believe this is 1) reprehensible, but 2) only fair that the publishers have their personal information revealed as well?
BZ
What, MSM’rs held to same standards as the unwashed masses? Show me aghast!
I know, it’s terrible, isn’t it?
BZ
Personally publishing my name wouldn’t concern me. Publishing the names of the Journel News staff seems proper. In my part of the country all my neighbors are armed. Armed neighbors make good neighbors. Hey, even Chuck Schumer has a conceal/carry permit.
These days, not interested in putting my name and address on Front Street for obvious reasons. But it’s nice to have like-minded neighbors.
BZ
Your wish is granted.
http://christopherfountain.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/sauce-for-the-goose/
Thanks JD, and welcome. Thanks for visiting and taking the time to comment.
BZ
Publishing those addresses would also help any burglar find the gun free house next door!!
What idiots!
Or wait until the person is gone for the day, then kick doors and steal property.
BZ
If I was a gun owner I would be totally pissed off for having MY name published… I was a gun owner but I saw the err of my ways and dumped em ALL in Lake Ray Hubbard…
Good for you! Guns are evil, anyway. . .
BZ
They’re painting the neighborhood, marking the baddies, like their fascist forebearers. Let them try a Kristallnacht, heh, they’ll get a Bleinacht instead.
If having neighbors who own guns makes these fascist bastards uncomfortable enough to move, then a massive firearms proliferation campaign should send them right out of the country. Wouldn’t that be wonderful.
Your Deutsche example is quite spot-on. And if only it were that easy.
BZ
They (once again) are doing what they want… Where is the list of all known criminals, and all the mentally challenged???
Oh come now! That would be harsh, judgmental and quite un-PC.
Those people have rights. Gun owners, not so much despite the Second Amendment.
BZ
If I were the Obama administration and wanting to come after gun owners, I’d start with the lists of those with permits to carry concealed.
Just sayin’.
That’s a scene right out of the movie “Red Dawn.” Literally.
BZ