Pro-Gun Blogger Strikes Back By Publishing Personal Info Of Newspaper Personnel

Nothing like objecting to something and then doing the same thing, only worse. Many objected to the Journal News publishing a list of those with gun permit.

The list includes items like hobbies of staffers who weren’t involved in producing the story, phone numbers, email addresses and even home addresses. Links to social media accounts even featured photos of the editor’s children, which the blog actively promoted.

…blogger Christopher Fountain of the “For What It’s Worth” blog said he was “offended” that the paper would release public information about gun owners and said he wanted the publisher of The Journal News to understand why he’s so upset. “I just thought they were being hypocrites,” he said.

The paper’s publisher, Janet Hansson, offered a defense on Wednesday of her decision to run the article, telling Politico: “We knew publication of the database (as well as the accompanying article providing context) would be controversial, but we felt sharing information about gun permits in our area was important in the aftermath of the Newtown shootings.”

Fountain wasn’t having it. “Well, she could have just published the number of gun permits, which is actually quite small,” he said. “If she wanted to show an issue that there are 2,000 legally registered guns in her county, fine. But the fact that they put the addresses… I’ve received emails from abused women who were under protective order and in hiding, and they’re terribly afraid that now their names and addresses are all over the Internet and accessible through that map.”

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.