On Jan 13, New York State senator Gregory Ball announced that a burglary had been reported which appears to be a direct result of the Journal News’ gun-owner-name-dump.
“The Journal News has placed the lives of these folks at risk by creating a virtual shopping list for criminals and nut jobs. If the connection is proven, this is further proof that these maps are not only an invasion of privacy but that they present a clear and present danger to law-abiding, private citizens. er convicts have already testified to the usefulness of the asinine Journal News ‘gun maps’ yet the reckless editors are evidently willing to roll the dice, gambling with the lives of innocent local homeowners,” said Senator Greg Ball.
Tomorrow, Senator Ball will be publicly unveiling three separate pieces of legislation, all with bipartisan support, among them (S2132), to protect the privacy rights of ordinary citizens; including: law enforcement personnel, victims of domestic violence and private citizens. Let it be clear however, that under Ball’s legislation that has garnered bipartisan kudos and support, law enforcement and all related agencies would continue to have full access to permit ination. Senate bill (S2132) would protect lawful gun owners, including thousands of retired and active law enforcement and victim of domestic violence survivors, from having their ination publicly disclosed.
I predicted this on my show, and told you about this possibility here.
Reed crooks say the New York newspaper that published a map of names and addresses of gun owners did a great service – to their old cronies in the burglary trade.
The the media got a taste of their own medicine, and cried like a bunch of babies with scraped knees.
The Journal News published the names and addresses of legal gun owners on their website, then got mad when citizens fought back and did the same to them. Now Gawker is in the same boat. They published the names of legal gun owners in NYC, and made it clear in their post (twice) that they were upset they couldn’t get the gun owner‘s addresses. Later that day, the author got upset his address was made public.
John Nolte wonders why the MSM is ignoring law-abiding citizens being exposed to public demonization, while they always have a ‘healthy debate’ about sex offenders having to register.
When the idea of having sex offenders publicly register came about (Megan’s Law), for a number of reasons, the media engaged in a mature debate over whether or not notifying residents of a convicted sex offender living in their area was a good idea. And while I’m in favor of the law, I would also argue that this was a perfectly legitimate and necessary debate to have.
But nowhere are we seeing the elite media doing anything other than to ignore the Journal News treating law-abiding gun owners as though they’re sex offenders. The media simply wants to pretend it didn’t happen and that there’s been no fallout. And it’s not just about the media protecting its own, either.
