{"id":183636,"date":"2013-01-06T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/06\/do-responsible-gun-activists-even-exist\/"},"modified":"2013-01-06T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T01:48:00","slug":"do-responsible-gun-activists-even-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/06\/do-responsible-gun-activists-even-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Responsible Gun Activists Even Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure there are a few responsible gun owners out there, but the <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Gun Nuts With Small Penises<\/span><sup>\u2122<\/sup> crowd seem <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/01\/02\/us-usa-guns-newspaper-idUSBRE9010R820130102\">determined to show that there is no such thing as a responsible gun owner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A suburban New York newspaper that ignited a furor by publishing the identities of thousands of residents who hold gun licenses has hired armed security to guard its staff after receiving an intimidating e-mail, a police report said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Among a &#8220;large amount of negative correspondence&#8221; that White Plains, New York-based Journal News has received since publishing permit holders&#8217; names was one e-mail in which the sender &#8220;wondered what would get in her mail next,&#8221; according to a Clarkstown, New York, police report obtained by Reuters on Wednesday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The editor, Caryn McBride, told police the newspaper hired a private security company whose &#8220;employees are armed and will be on site during business hours,&#8221; the report said. The guards are protecting the newspaper&#8217;s staff and Rockland County offices in West Nyack, New York.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Police told McBride the e-mail did not contain an explicit threat that could compel authorities to take action against the sender. The menacing e-mail was reported to police on December 28.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see what happens here.<\/p>\n<p>You have an argument over gun control.<\/p>\n<p>The people gun control advocates call gun rights advocates dangerous and crazy.<\/p>\n<p>The gun control advocates respond by threatening the lives of gun control advocates.<\/p>\n<p>QED, gun control advocates <b>are<\/b> dangerous and crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure there are a few responsible gun owners out there, but the Gun Nuts With Small Penises\u2122 crowd seem determined to show that there is no such thing as a responsible gun owner: A suburban New York newspaper that ignited a furor by publishing the identities of thousands of residents who hold gun licenses &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1055,1129,982,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-laws","category-journalism","category-stupid","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}