Judge Jeanine Pirro - Because WE Fought Back!

Judge Pirro and Michelle Malkin torch the regime and Journal News.

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Judge Jeanine Pirro - How DARE YOU to The Journal News

Judge Jeanine Pirro has reached out for a comment from the newspaper to no avail. She slammed those at the paper for going into hiding, and even hiring bodyguards to protect themselves.

She reacted on her show, saying, “In the aftermath of the shooting of innocent children, you, The Journal News think it’s important to what — to out us? […] How dare you connect law-abiding citizens who’ve gone through rigorous background checks, who’ve been fingerprinted, investigated and received judicial approval to exercise their Second Amendment right.”

The judge continued, “How dare you compare them to a nut-job on a lunatic fringe in desperate need of medication, playing violent video games for days at a time. How dare you compare him to battered women in hiding, to families of police officers, and to judges and DAs like me.”

If the names and addresses of gun owners is public information, Pirro wondered, “Should we also publish the names of people receiving food stamps, getting unemployment, those on welfare, the mentally ill? Should we give people maps to their homes?”

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Janet Hasson - The Liberal Elite of the Journal News

Janet Hasson is the publisher of the Journal News located in White Plains, New York.

Janet Hasson published an interactive map of ALL Licensed to Carry handgun permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties.

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Deneen Borelli versus John Hlinko - Gun Control Debate

Fox News contributor Deneen Borelli said she applied for a license because as a public figure she has received threats. Her husband, Tom Borelli, said The Journal News’ map is an attempt by the government to “intimidate” gun owners using the media.

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Judge Jeanine Update on The Journal News Story

The Journal News is a White Plains, New York Newspaper.

The Journal News utilized an interactive map similar to what is used to warn people of sexual predators. What gives her scathing remarks extra potency is the fact that Judge Jeanine Pirro is a gun owner, and her name and address are on that map.

There are police officers, prison guards, crime victims, witnesses, battered spouses, and many others who are more vulnerable now, because their once-hidden location is now public.

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Judge Jeanine Pirro Fires Back On The Journal News Listing of Gun Owners

The Journal News’ anti-gun stunt was supposed to treat gun owners like sex offenders. But the Journal News’ publisher Janet Hasson and the rest of the staff hated gun owners too much to understand that many of the people they were actually targeting were law enforcement personnel… with predictable results.

Even though the Journal News hypocritically hired its own armed guards, Janet Hasson and others at the paper are proceeding with their Jihad against the Bill of Rights even while knowing that they are endangering the safety of the men and women in law enforcement who protect them, as well as the families of those men and women.

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Jeannie DeAngelis - What You Didn’t Know About Your Neighborhood

Originally posted at American Thinker

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One of the most stunning attributes of liberalism today is duplicity. What other group uses legality as a basis to defend exterminating the unborn, yet when it comes to owning a handgun, legality becomes irrelevant?

From the White House to Your House, the push is now on to paint gun owners in a negative light and clearly, it’s working. For example, in an effort to better serve New York’s Westchester and Rockland Counties, the Gannett-owned Journal News took it upon itself, without notifying the affected parties, to make public all the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of residents in the area with registered handguns.

The Journal News was so concerned about informing its readership of the prospective danger gun owners pose that it published a detailed interactive map with red and blue dots pinpointing the location of residents licensed to own pistols or revolvers and permit holders who “have purchased a firearm or updated the information on a permit in the past five years.”

Until recently, it was thought assault weapons were the menace. Now, owning a gun, any gun, is right up there with committing a sex crime. The Journal News’ address listing might as well have been a sex offender registry because gun stigma is now running a close second to being a convicted pedophile. The only difference is that in the gun owner’s case, no crime was committed.

Janet Hasson, publisher and president of the Journal News Media Group, defended making the databank information available when she said:

"One of our roles is to report publicly available information on timely issues, even when unpopular. We knew publication of the database (as well as the accompanying article providing context) would be controversial, but we felt sharing information about gun permits in our area was important in the aftermath of the Newtown shootings."

For Ms. Hasson, publishing names, addresses, and telephone numbers wasn’t enough. It sounds as if Ms. Hasson is highly suspicious that every gun owner in America is a prospective Adam Lanza.

The disappointed newspaper publisher/president said that in the “aftermath of the Newtown shootings” her newspaper had “wanted to publish even more information.” Maybe Janet feels the drive-by harassers she has already provided with directions to private residences would have also appreciated the political affiliation of all Rockland and Westchester County gun owners.

The Florida-based school for journalists, the Poynter Institute, disagrees with Journal News’ tactics.

According to a Poynter Institute faculty member, “Unwarranted publishing of the names of permitted owners just encourages gun owners to skip the permitting.” That means that thanks to the newspaper’s irresponsible actions, in order to maintain anonymity normally upstanding citizens may be driven to illegal gun ownership.

Despite the controversy, many defenders of the Journal News took to Twitter to express their anti-gun approval. One Tweet said: “The gun permit maps are an effective way of showing how horribly widespread gun ownership is.” Excuse me, but “horribly?” Another relieved parent thanked the Journal News, saying, “Please thank them. This could be a turning point. I do not want my daughter playing in a house with guns.” Earth to Mom: kids have been known to drown in toilets, so are houses with bathrooms a problem too?

What is stunning about all this is the duplicitous left backing private information being made public. Apparently, in “right-to-privacy” circles, confidentiality only applies when it comes to the names, addresses, and phone numbers of individuals spotted at Rockland and Westchester abortion clinics.

And here’s where the deceit really kicks in. Aren’t these the usual suspects who scream “intimidation” when an old grandma spends her mornings praying the rosary outside an abortion clinic?

If, as Janet Hasson contends, “timeliness and popularity” surrounding an issue determines whether private information should be made public, wouldn’t it be wonderful if Journal News could also provide all pro-life members of the community the names and addresses of those seen at the local Planned Parenthood clinic? After all, having a gun owner live next door is certainly a concern to anti-gun people, but to anti-abortion people, having a neighbor who’s had an abortion living on the other side of the fence generates a ton of anxiety too.

Therefore, in lieu of a public database, the only hope that an intrepid journalist like Dwight R. Worley has to find a treasure trove of confidential abortion information is in a recycling bin or a dumpster.

So, it appears that all it takes to be branded a potential danger to society is a reckless newspaper publishing an article entitled “The gun owner next door: What you don’t know about the weapons in your neighborhood.” And, if that’s the case, then fair-minded anti-gun liberals should be open to warning concerned Rockland and Westchester County anti-abortion residents about ‘That woman next door: What you don’t know about the abortions in your neighborhood.’

Jeannie DeAngelis

Jeannie DeAngelis writes almost exclusively for American Thinker and has been published on the conservative website Pajamas Media, as well as hosting a blog. See Jeannie's Blog

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