Convicts taunting prison guards after seeing published gun owner list: "We know where you live!" (ethics, leader)
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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.
"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.'"
The gun owners whose addresses were published should sue the Journal for relocation expenses. Then, the Journal should report that the previously listed gun owners have all moved and no longer reside at the published addresses.
The gun owners whose addresses were published should sue the Journal for relocation expenses. Then, the Journal should report that the previously listed gun owners have all moved and no longer reside at the published addresses.
And then comes their followup lawsuits for pain and suffering. The awards can dwarf the payments for relocations... and should.
I certainly don't think publishing the names of these gun owners was responsible, but it will apparently provide a great test of the effectiveness as guns as self-defense mechanisms. Good thing all these folks are armed, huh? What's everyone's best guesses for how many of these gun owners will successfully defend themselves against these ex-cons and other criminals?
I certainly don't think publishing the names of these gun owners was responsible, but it will apparently provide a great test of the effectiveness as guns as self-defense mechanisms. Good thing all these folks are armed, huh? What's everyone's best guesses for how many of these gun owners will successfully defend themselves against these ex-cons and other criminals?
My best guess is that the cons are all mouth and are not stupid enough to go to a house they KNOW is armed.. Even most criminals aren't that stupid...
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