Personally I’m glad to see these newspaper busybodies quoting their jobs in fear for their lives.
Don’t worry about the editor - he’ll land a job working for Bloomberg, I’m sure.
Amen. Every citizen has a right to privacy. In fact, the Supreme Court in Roe v Wade declared it so important that it’s an excuse for a woman to kill her unborn child.
There is no way that snoopy news people should be entitled to a list of private citizens exercising their constitutional right to bear arms.
Congress Critters on the other hand: Yeh we ought to know what hypocrites they are.
He will move on to a rich career as a liberal martyr.
Why do they think readers want that info anyway? Shooting subscriber lists? Down with with our circulation, that’s the ticket.
200 in the entire state? Yeah ok. That's a little less than one tenth of one percent, do I have that about right? And I'd bet big money that the "or misdemeanors" is far more than half of that number, and that the examples of "gun-related felonies" are far less scary than they want it to sound.
He will move on to a rich career as a liberal martyr.
The number of liberal weenies who claim they were threatened . . . but never file a police report and never come forward with the supposed emails or telephone calls . . . are legion.
Here's what I bet happened: the reporter started writing the story having heard from the LWE (Liberal Weenie Editor) that s/he (gender doubtful) quit on account of death threats. Wrote the lede, then started questioning the LWE and found that s/he wouldn't give details. Dropped that part of the story, but forgot to edit the lede.
Bet you the LWE didn't even really quit.
Then these hypothetical parents can come down to the courthouse in person and ask about these one or two hypothetical neighbors.
I wonder how many people had to sit in a room before they came up with this as their best example of why every record needs to be public at all times and in digital form.
Oh, you don't have any guns?
OK then, my little Johnny won't be allowed to come over to your house because you can't provide him any protection if that's ever needed.
“As North Carolina legislators move to close public access to firearm permits, some sheriffs are already refusing to hand over the records.”
Ha! That rules!
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“Following a public showdown with the sheriff in Cherokee County, a local newspaper editor quit last week after his records request – which was denied – made him the target of death threats.”
That doesn’t rule. While I don’t think it’s any of the newspaper’s darn business who carries and who does not, someone making death threats against the editor is NOT acceptable. That’s a chicken-spit way of dealing with things, and gives responsible 2nd Amendment supporters a black eye. Lock ‘em up.
This is another “crisis” fabricated by the White House to distract the public from the failing economy and wholesale corruption in Washington D.C.
“...a local newspaper editor quit last week after his records request – which was denied – made him the target of death threats.”
Translation: It was fired and ran like a rabid scorched dog but it’s really the victim of “right wing” death threats, so feel sorry for it. It’s a heroic soldier like Che, slaughtered on the battle field for the glorious cause of Utopia. It’s always the same story with the commies... They are predators who when rejected and stopped are victims of the “right wing.”
If the management was backing this little radical pervert, he’d be spending the paper’s money in court, suing the officials who refused to meet his treasonous demands. His boss would be losing what few subscriptions and advertisers the “newspaper” has. If I lived there, I would be hounding that paper for it’s far left wing propaganda every chance I got. They need to hire a conservative editor who has a brain and respects freedom.
I wish they’d exhibit the same ferocity at publishing the names and addresses of those receiving WIK, Welfare, and Foodstamp payments. Maybe it would make the newspaper edition to expensive to print.
We are WINNING!
The 2nd amendment is just as important as the first