The Journal News compounded their idiotic posting of gun owners’ personal information on their interactive website this weekend by trying to explain it;<\/p>\n
In May, Richard V. Wilson approached a female neighbor on the street and shot her in the back of the head, a crime that stunned their quiet Katonah neighborhood.<\/p>\n
What was equally shocking for some was the revelation that the mentally disturbed 77-year-old man had amassed a cache of weapons \u2014 including two unregistered handguns and a large amount of ammunition \u2014 without any neighbors knowing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that the access to guns in this country is ridiculous, that anybody can get one,\u201d said a neighbor of Wilson\u2019s who requested anonymity because it\u2019s not known whether the gunman, whose unnamed victim survived, will return home or be sent to prison. \u201cWould I have bought this house knowing somebody (close by) had an arsenal of weapons? No, I would not have.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now, wait a second, the killer “amassed” a cache of unregistered weapons, but somehow that justifies publishing the names and addresses of people who have legally acquired their firearms? How, exactly does that work?<\/p>\n
Combined with laws that allow the purchase of rifles and shotguns without a permit, John Thompson, a program manager for Project SNUG at the Yonkers Family YMCA, said that leaves the public knowing little about the types of deadly weapons that might be right next door.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would love to know if someone next to me had guns. It makes me safer to know so I can deal with that,\u201d said Thompson, whose group counsels youths against gun violence. \u201cI might not choose to live there.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Well, then go to the town clerk’s office and find out, dimbulb. In fact, make sure your name gets on the list of people easiest to victimize, but don’t demonize people who don’t see themselves as potential victims.<\/p>\n
In the wake of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and amid renewed nationwide calls for stronger gun control, some Lower Hudson Valley residents would like lawmakers to expand the amount of information the public can find out about gun owners. About 44,000 people in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam \u2014 one out of every 23 adults \u2014 is licensed to own a handgun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And 100% of those 44,000 people didn’t commit any crimes with their legal handguns yesterday, so what’s your point?<\/p>\n
The blog, For What It’s Worth<\/a>, posts the public information available for Dwight R Worley, the fellow who wrote the article, I’m sure he doesn’t mind that everyone knows where he lives, since he has a gun permit, too.<\/p>\n
By the way, I didn’t link to the LoHud story on purpose because they’ve set up some BS subscription thingie since early this morning that won’t let you see the article until you subscribe. But I found a cache copy of the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"