Greetings to the Journal-News staff!! Have a nice day!
I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning. It smells like...victory!
They will say that their staff should no be outed. They have the right to their privacy and not have their names posted. They say that they can out who ever they want but they should hide behind the wall of journalism.
If I were an American gun owner, I would send to, each and every person in the newspaper, a polite, but firm, letter to their house explaining why it was such a poor decision to publicly list the addresses of all the gun owners.
I think, if each person in that newspaper were to receive a thousand personal letters, it would become clear to them why it was such a poor decision.
The next step would be to overlay the gun owner’s homes with crime statistics.
What an appalling mess! That newspaper published the names and addresses of women who were living apart from abusive husbands and boyfriends. And they think gun owners are insane??
Write their spouses to inform about sexual affairs, etc.
This link goes to fountains webpage where all the names and numbers are.
http://christopherfountain.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/keep-up-the-heat-and-look-whos-got-the-home-address-of-cyndee-royle-editor-of-the-journal-news
I’ve felt this is the best response. Let those who ‘out’ be ‘outed’. I’m sure it feels unsettling not knowing if a ‘crazy’ person is going to look you up.
Greetings to the Journal-News staff!! Have a nice day!
Response: Very good.
I think people ought to call, saying that they appreciate the map, as it shows those neighbors who have not only passed a background check (I doubt the newspapers staff could), but are also a deterrent to the kick-in-the-door “Where’s My Free Sh!t” crowd.
Place the call(s) around 1 a.m., 2 a.m., 3 a.m., etc. ;-)
All those at the addresses not published as gun owners are called targets. They should expect company soon.
Um no, not really. It's an object lesson for the newsies. Specifically, just the thought that they might out some woman who had been abused by an ex and bought a firearm to defend herself should have stopped these moral morons in their tracks.
Any small-town reporter who made daily checks of court filings, marriage licenses, birth certificates, police logs, etc., knows that, and knew it back to the days that records were exclusively kept on paper and filled out via Underwood manual typewriters or handwritten fill-in-the-blank forms. That's nothing new and these reporters don't deserve and prizes for “finding out” something everybody involved in government recordkeeping always knew was available.
What **IS** new is that the internet is making things widely and easily available that until recently required spending massive amounts of research time or hiring a private investigator to visit records offices, college libraries, etc., in every community where a person had lived. As more and more things get put on the internet, lots of people are finding out the hard way that long-forgotten things done 20 or 50 years ago can be located with a Google search.
Many government records are public and have to be public for legitimate constitutional or legal reasons, and if people don't like it, that's their problem. For example, it may be embarrassing for a woman to have her age and address publicly available on voter registration records, but there are issues involving potential voter fraud that make it important to have that information available for public inspection.
I think a legitimate question can be asked by New York state legislators of what public purpose it serves to make this gun-related information publicly available. I can't think of a valid public purpose, and unless someone can show me the public purpose, perhaps the law should be changed.
In the meantime, however, I believe the best response is what was done with publicizing the names, addresses and phone numbers of the newspaper's staff and putting it on Facebook. What's good for the goose is good for the gander and if some people's info is public, so is the info about the reporters and editors and publishers.
Over on the FOX News website, a person commenting said someone actually answered the phone at the home number of the CEO of Gannett Corporation, and listened politely to his concerns about the list.
My guess is that the local editor and publisher who approved this story are going to have to answer some very hard questions coming from Gannett corporate headquarters about the newsworthiness of this list.
Post the social security numbers on the internet.
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