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Project Veritas – Well, we thought you LIKED Gun Free Zones!

September 26, 2018January 16, 2013 Skip

I love it! Once again, James O’Keefe III and his Project Veritas has done it again. This time, he decided to see what absolute hypocrites the Journal News staffers were on their paper’s stance that people in the ‘hoods just had to know where the guns were. Just like sex offenders, gun owners (in their … Read more

Journal News Gun Permit Map May Be Reaping Results

September 26, 2018January 14, 2013 Rick Olson

“There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that’s the media.” —Rush Limbaugh

In the wake of the Journal News Publishing names and addresses of Gun owners, providing an interactive map, White Plains Police Department report that one of those published gun owners had a break-in Saturday night while the homeowner was away.

Westchester Rockland Newsday reported yesterday that at least two burglars broke into a home on Davis Avenue at 9:30 p.m. Saturday but were unsuccessful in an

Commentary From Crooks On Journal News Gun Ownership Postings

September 26, 2018January 6, 2013 Rick Olson

“Having a list of who has a gun is like gold – why rob that house when you can hit the one next door, where there are no guns?” —Walter T. Shaw, Notorious Ex Burglar and Jewel Thief

On December 30, Steve shared with us about the Journal News and its’ December 22nd publication of each and every address of gun owners in Rockland and Westchester Counties, NY…replete with interactive maps. Moreover, Steve provided the names and addresses of the principle players at Journal News.

Steve makes a valid point here:

Because turnabout is always fair play, a blogger went and dug up the names and addresses (phone numbers and other contact info) of the folks at theJournal-News.

Contact Info for Employees at the Journal-News (They Published Gun Owners Addresses)

September 26, 2018December 30, 2012 Steve MacDonald

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Because turnabout is always fair play, a blogger went and dug up the names and addresses (phone numbers and other contact info) of the folks at the Journal-News. The Journal-News thought it would be fun to release all the names and addresses (with interactive map) of registered gun owners in New York’s Westchester and Rockland Counties, and this is just more “public information,” right? It is all just sitting out there or on the internet. But I have wonder if that was the response the employees of the Journal-News were expecting?

I know, you’d think that educated journalists with the tech skills at hand to take a large list and generate an interactive map would consider the possibility that someone else might not a) appreciate their hard work and b) return the favor…