Crook says Newspaper map of gun owners shows where they risk getting shot helps criminals
From Fox News:
Reformed crooks say the New York newspaper that published a map of names and addresses of gun owners did a great service – to their old cronies in the burglary trade.
The information published online by the Journal-News, a daily paper serving the New York suburbs of Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, could be highly useful to thieves in two ways, former burglars told FoxNews.com. Crooks looking to avoid getting shot now know which targets are soft and those who need weapons know where they can steal them.
“That was the most asinine article I’ve ever seen,” said Walter T. Shaw, 65, a former burglar and jewel thief who the FBI blames for more than 3,000 break-ins that netted some $70 million in the 1960s and 1970s. “Having a list of who has a gun is like gold - why rob that house when you can hit the one next door, where there are no guns? . . .UPDATE: From Fox News "Inmates using newspaper's gun owner map to threaten guards, sheriff says"
Law enforcement officials from a New York region where a local paper published a map identifying gun owners say prisoners are using the information to intimidate guards.Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco, who spoke at a news conference flanked by other county officials, said the Journal News' decision to post an online map of names and addresses of handgun owners Dec. 23 has put law enforcement officers in danger.UPDATE 2: Newspaper published list where they were told that 25 percent of names and addresses on the list were incorrect. A very large percentage of those with permits for guns were police officers or correction officers. Requests for gun permits have tripled, so people don't want to be on target as a gun-free target.
"They have inmates coming up to them and telling them exactly where they live. That's not acceptable to me," Falco said, according to Newsday.
Robert Riley, an officer with the White Plains Police Department and president of its Patrolman’s Benevolent Association, agreed.
"You have guys who work in New York City who live up here. Now their names and addresses are out there, too," he said adding that there are 8,000 active and retired NYPD officers currently living in Rockland County. . . .
posted by John Lott at 12:01 PM
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I just saw Doctor Lott on Sun News in Canada. Keep up the good works!
The basic problem is that we must be on a government list to own our handguns in New York State. That is an infringement of our Second Amendment rights, and the Second Amendment specifically prohibits any such infringement. Government should not be allowed to infringe, let alone abrogate, our constitutional rights as Americans with the excuse of, “Your name is not on government list, Comrade“.
There is no asterisk in the Second Amendment that refers to a footnote that says that our right to bear arms shall not be infringed only as long as our names are on a government list. Our right to bear arms as Americans is independent of New York State’s list, and as such, the state should be prohibited from maintaining such lists, which are more appropriate for a police state, than for New York State.
New York State needs to scrap the list and give us our rights back.
"New York State Civil Rights Law, Article 2 §4: Right to keep and bear arms. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms cannot be infringed."
Not just "not", but "cannot". What part of "cannot" don't they understand?
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