Outraged Gun Owner Retaliates After Publisher Posts Map With Permit Owners’ Addresses

As the fractious debate over the rights of gun owners versus the protections of American citizens escalates, those engaged in the battle seem to be raising (lowering?) the bar in ever-inventive – if incendiary – ways. The latest round takes us from Wayne LaPierre's controversial "plan" to put gun-toting guards in every school, Ron Paul's response to that plan's "Orwellian" nature; GOP strategist Frank Luntz's poll revealing that the majority of gun owners (including NRA members) favor better gun laws, right down to David Sirota's suggestion that it's time to startprofiling white males (who make up the majority of mass shooters).

The latest salvo, however, involves the "spit fight" going on between a newspaper publisher who posted a map of gun permit owners and a gun owner who retaliated by posting the addresses of that publisher and her entire staff, a potentially dangerous move considering the incendiary nature of this debate and some of the people having it.

The story starts with a map. In a report by CNN U.S. today, it seems the publisher of The Journal News, the local paper for Westchester County in New York, noted the intensity of the gun debate in the week following the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, and decided to up the ante with a controversial move: publisher Janet Hasson posted an article on the paper's website called, "The gun owner next door: What you don't know about the weapons in your neighborhood," and included in the piece an interactive map with the names and addresses of gun permit owners in select New York cities in the Journal's reporting area. 

The response was for a gun owner to publish the private contact information of the publisher and her staff. It's not so nice when the shoe is on the other foot, is it?

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