So, a newspaper in New York State decided that since guns were obviously tools of the devil, they should publish the names and locations of people licensed to have them in their community. Predictably, the thing backfired on them.<\/p>\n
The community they ostensibly served realized that the attempt to demonize gun owners had just put a huge number of vetted, card-carrying \u201cgood guys and gals\u201d into the sort of pit of condemnation usually reserved for registered sex offenders.\u00a0 It had also created, literally, a \u201cshopping guide for gun thieves.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was not a wise thing to do in the time of the Internet. One enterprising blogger countered by publishing the home addresses of the newspaper staff.\u00a0 Utterly horrified, the powers that be at the newspaper called the police and told them they\u2019d been threatened. The police investigated, and determined that readers expressing outrage at the paper having done a stupid thing did not constitute criminal threatening.\u00a0 The paper, wetting its institutional pants apparently, hired armed security: an act of hypocrisy that will probably be cited in journalism school forever into the future.\u00a0 (The armed security firm they hired is run by a family named Ayoob; no relation that I know of, but I hope you will forgive the author if he is amused.)<\/p>\n
And soon on the heels of that, <\/i>local corrections officials discovered that inmates were threatening the correctional officers because those officers\u2019 had been named by the paper as permit-holders, and now the prisoners knew where they and their families lived, so they could take revenge when they got out from behind bars.<\/p>\n
Most recently, a judge (a permit holder herself, and on the published list) called out the paper for its utter stupidity, here: http:\/\/foxnewsinsider.com\/2013\/01\/06\/judge-jeanine-pirro-slams-the-journal-news-for-publishing-names-of-gun-permi-owners-including-herself\/<\/a> .\u00a0 Bless you, Judge Pirro!<\/p>\n This is the sort of thing that happens when elitists who declare culture wars on people they don\u2019t understand, and try to legislate issues they obviously don\u2019t begin to understand, start throwing their power around in reckless pursuit of \u201cpolitical correctness.\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking of which, the Huffington Post reports that Joe Biden says the President is ready to use Executive Order to bypass Congress to achieve serious firearms ownership restrictions. (Ya know, HuffPost, we knew that, but thanks.) It\u2019s worth reading their account to go to the end for their featurette on ten people who are past the BS symbolism and support something that CAN stop atrocities such as the Newtown Massacre: http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/01\/09\/joe-biden-gun-group_n_2440359.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl2%7Csec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D254877#slide=more270656<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, a newspaper in New York State decided that since guns were obviously tools of the devil, they should publish the names and locations of people licensed to have them in their community. Predictably, the thing backfired on them. The community they ostensibly served realized that the attempt to demonize gun owners had just put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights","8":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}