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That would be true, if this paper truly cared about the People's Right to Know. But it's quite apparent that this is an ideological move, and has nothing to do with the right to know.
Read doc1's comments following my rant to the same comment.
Don't tell me you are trying to defend this! Look, just because it is "public information" does not give someone a right to plaster it all over the country. We firearms owners/permit holder dont go around screaming that we have a gun.
. Discretion is a primary rule of having a ccw. Violation carries stiff penalties. There is no public danger involved here, just an attempt to create one in peoples minds. It may be public information, but it has been misused. That is a crime. Look it up.
Yes it does. 1st amendment gives you that right. The newspaper was obviously biased and had an agenda, but they broke no laws.
Now the prison inmates are walking up to prison guards and reciting the guards' exact home address to them. They got the addresses, from the newspaper's published map of gun owner permits
Good job, Rockland Journal News.
You won't need police protection any time soon, will you, newpapers people? Cops may be too busy guarding their own homes against recently-released criminals, to respond to your calls. I know I would be.
Criticism of The Journal News, which published a gun permit database last month, broadened Friday with Rockland law enforcement officials saying the map listing the names and addresses of those with gun permits is endangering lives.
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-based newspaper, Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco said.
"Since about 9:30 this morning, I've been in a meeting with my corrections officers and their unions. They have inmates coming up to them and telling them exactly where they live. That's not acceptable to me," Falco said at a news conference Friday morning in New City, where local leaders condemned the list.
Falco, along with other supporting police chiefs and county legislators, wants the paper to remove the information from its website.
You do realize that any of those prisoners with half a brain could make or have someone make for them a FOIA request and find out that exact information.
Remember when the libs went ape ****, because Vallery Plame's name was leaked? This is thousands of times worse, and the libs are silent.
So. Printing in a news paper information that is easily avaliable is 1000 times worse then using your access to classified material to illegally leak the name of a CIA handler...yeah I don't think so.
Yes it does. 1st amendment gives you that right. The newspaper was obviously biased and had an agenda, but they broke no laws.
Yes, they did. Misuse of public information. It is not that they obtained the information. Its the way they used it. And a sharp attorney or two or ten is going to deep fry them. Extra crispy.
Liberals who advocate for publishing this information hate women.
Many gun permit holders are women who are armed to protect themselves from past violence - and aren't exactly happy that their location is now readily available to those whom want to harm them.
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