Publishing the locations of Gun Permit Holders = Publishing the location of Walker Recall Signers?

Remember when conservative tea party losers decided to intimidate and threaten those who signed the Walker recall petitions by outing them in public by publishing their names and addresses? It became a scarlet letter that put a big target on the backs of Democrats in the state for gun toting Walker thugs single out.

Well, guess who can’t take the same kind of treatment from an angry public clamoring for sensible gun regulations? Whiny frightened gun nuts, that’s who.

Their fear filled lives just got more scary when a local newspaper published an interactive map of gun permit holders. Instead of feeling safe, knowing they have the firepower to defend their homes, they’re now afraid they’ll be targets of gun burglars. But wouldn't the robbers be afraid to…never mind.

In retaliation, gun freaks published the pictures of reporters and their kids, in a not to subtle public death threat in my opinion. Still, the paper will continue to public locations, since it’s all public record, just like recall petition names are in Wisconsin. 

But in America now, a newspaper has to arm itself from its readers. Now that's freedom and liberty:

NY Times: A newspaper based in White Plains that drew nationwide anger after publishing the names and addresses of handgun permit holders last month is being guarded by armed security personnel at two of its offices, the publisher said Wednesday. The increased security comes as the newspaper, The Journal News, has promised to forge ahead with plans to expand its interactive map of permit holders to include a third county in the suburbs of New York City, and local officials there have vowed to block the records’ release. The Journal News had gathered the information from public records after the school shooting in nearby Newtown, Conn. The police report said that e-mails received did not contain threats and that armed guards from a private security firm had not reported any problems at the office.

Putnam County … officials there, including the county clerk and a state senator, have said they intend to block the release of permit information. The senator, Greg Ball, a Republican who represents the area, lashed out at the “asinine editors” at The Journal News who, he said, “have gone out of their way to place a virtual scarlet letter on law-abiding firearm owners throughout the region.” “I thank God that Putnam County has a clerk with the guts to stand up and draw the line here,” Senator Ball said. “This is clearly a violation of privacy and needs to be corrected immediately.”

Wow, just like a Republican "lawmaker" to defy the law, the ones they don't like.

The permits are public records that were requested by the newspaper using the state’s Freedom of Information Law. Robert Freeman of the State Committee on Open Government said the officials would be breaking the law if they refused to release the records. The name and address of any handgun permit holder “shall be a public record,” he said, reading a section of New York State law. “In my opinion,” he added, “there is not a lot of room for interpretation.”