New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s gun law is a hastily assembled mess of panic legislation. It may have made criminals out of cops while screwing up Olympic training. By limiting handgun magazines to 7 rounds, it may be an illegal backdoor ban on all semiautomatic handguns since most of them use magazines of 8 or more rounds.
But there was one good bit in it. It allows gun permit holders to take their personal information out of publicly obtainable information, and bans any publication of personal permit information for 120 days. Those provisions have become a fig leaf behind which the Journal News can hide while it pulls down its map of local gun owners in the White Plains area.
A newspaper has removed an interactive online map of handgun permit holders in two New York counties that drew nationwide anger and prompted threats against its staff, the publisher said Friday.
The decision by the paper, The Journal News, to take the information off its Web site came in response to the passage of sweeping gun legislation in Albany this week, the publisher, Janet Hasson, said in a statement. “While the new law does not require us to remove the data, we believe that doing so complies with its spirit,” she said.
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In a note to readers published on Friday, Ms. Hasson said the decision to remove the interactive map, which was posted in response to the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., was neither a concession to critics nor a response to threats. “We know our business is a controversial one, and we do not cower,” she said.
They just abuse FOIA to attack law-abiding citizens, while handing criminals a treasure map.
“Janet, you ignorant slut.” It is too late. Some enterprising soul or souls have used that map to print out lists, which they have or will sell. Also taking the lists down will not protect you from present law suits that are generating, competitors that will bring it up every chance they get, and advertisers who will leave because they don’t want to be associated with you. I’m pretty sure the powers that be are waiting for a lull so you can quietly resign. You’ve cost Gannet an awful lot of money and your judgement has shown to be infantile.
These are people who are adamant guns have no place in society, and were willing to demonize individuals who have been acting in accord with long-established rights and beliefs. They of the paper are those who have burned people at stakes in the past, more concerned that you accept the faith than you live.
They of this paper are of the exact kind who suspend 6-year olds for playing “cowboys and Indians”–zealots willing to be coldly cruel to get what they want for society.
They have used the rights secured under one amendment to try to destroy the rights secured by another amendment.
They are getting what they deserve and I suggest that their personal information continue to be publicly available for years after this as those homeowners will likewise have to live with the high and mighty decisions this paper has made for years as well.
I’d also suggest that the armed guards find employment elsewhere and leave these jerks to fend for themselves as by securing the services of armed guards they are not only displaying their hypocrisy for all to see, they are at the same time hiding behind the very protections the amendment they sought to destroy provides them.
Nothing, and I mean nothing, will make a dent in their socialist belief system like the emotions and feelings and sense of vulnerability being completely bare and unprotected by hired guns from the society they have sought so hard to antagonize will engender in their feeble thought processes.
They deliberately exposed people and their families to danger just for political theater, it’s time they experience the same helplessness themselves.
– throw it over her head.