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Publishing names of gun owners, trouble brewing

hypocritexposer

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1. Prison guards

… Inmates at the Rockland County jail are taunting corrections officers by saying they know the guards’ home addresses — information they got from the list published by Westchester (County)-based newspaper, Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco said.

2. Law enforcement in general

… Robert Riley, a White Plains police officer who is president of the department’s Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, agreed that the database is putting officers’ lives at risk. “My members are outraged,” Riley said, noting that the potential dangers to law enforcement extend beyond Westchester and Rockland counties.

3. Non-permit holders

… Legis. Aron Wieder (D-Spring Valley) called the publication of the list “irresponsible journalism” and said he now fears for his safety because the map broadcast that he does not have a gun license. At the news conference Friday morning, he handed a $150 certified check and a completed pistol permit application to Rockland County Clerk Paul Piperato. “I never owned a gun but now I have no choice,” Wieder said. “I have been exposed as someone that has no gun. And I’ll do anything, anything to protect my family.”

4. Ex-spouses and others who were in abusive relationships.

… “When I saw the list, I had an immediate flood of emotions that I cannot even describe to you,” said (Orangetown resident Charlotte) Swift. “I originally obtained a gun permit because I had previously been married to a man who attempted to strangle me . . . The first emotion I felt was, ‘Oh my gosh, he can find me.’”

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2013/01/05/new-york-newspapers-gun-permit-map-already-having-negative-repercussions#ixzz2H7VTfdDN

http://newyork.newsday.com/news/nation/journal-news-gun-permit-map-endangers-officers-officials-say-1.4407323
 

littlejoe

Well-known member
Part of that reminded me of the charlie russell story about the dude who complained bitterly to the bartender (a former cowboy hisself) about the 'gentlemen' who had rode their horses into the bar:

"What the hell are you doing in here afoot enyhow?!"

Shoot, somebody busts into my house, i ain't worried about self defense--I'll be too focused on not getting kilt in the crossfire
 
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