Do you want to know where lawful gun owners live in your neighborhood? Should this information not only be public but publicized?
"Overkill?" asks The Daily Beast, writing about the publication by The Journal News on Dec. 22 of gun permit holders across three counties, including Westchester. The database article on LoHud.com includes a map with dots for each household licensed to own a handgun, namely pistols and revolvers.
The map has gone viral, having been widely Tweeted and Liked on Facebook close to 28,000 times as of Dec. 26.
Some parents, in the wake of the Newtown school shootings, have expressed their desire to know which homes their kids might be playing in have potentially lethal weapons in them.
One woman wrote on Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Patch’s Facebook page: “I just watched on the news: 38 percent of the people in America have a gun in their houses. Should we ask about this when our children go to a playdate?”
This is the second time the Hudson Valley newspaper and website has published database reporting on gun ownership. The release of the info online this year has some gun advocates worried for their safety and complaining of their privacy infringement, according to the Daily Beast.
The information was obtained by filing Freedom of Information requests.
The Journal News stands behind its decision. "We knew publication of the database would be controversial, but we felt sharing as much information as we could about gun ownership in our area was important in the aftermath of the Newtown shootings," CynDee Royle, editor and vice president/news of The Journal News, said to the Daily Beast.
Word for Word: More than 44 million Americans own firearms. Of the 192 million firearms owned in the United States, 65 million are handguns. Research shows guns in homes are a serious risk to families. •A gun kept in the home is 43 times more likely to kill someone known to the family than to kill someone in self-defense. •A gun kept in the home triples the risk of homicide. •The risk of suicide is 5 times more likely if a gun is kept in the home. Advice to parents The best way to keep your children safe from injury or death from guns is to NEVER have a gun in the home. •Do not purchase a gun, especially a handgun. •Remove all guns present in the home. •Talk to your children about the dangers of guns, and tell them to stay away from guns. •Find out if there are guns in the homes where your children play. If so, talk to the adults in the house about the dangers of guns to their families. For those who know of the dangers of guns but still keep a gun in the home. •Always keep the gun unloaded and locked up. •Lock and store the bullets in a separate place. •Make sure to hide the keys to the locked boxes
This is what we're talking about.
I also believe we need to address: 1. Gratuitous Hollywood violence 2. Medication issues 3. The mentally ill and their access to weapons and no programs to help them from local/ state government 4. Violent video games 5. Specific music that encourages violence on women and children and people in general 6. The media's exploitation of violent acts spurred on by the 24/ 7 "need for news" 8. Celebrity endorsements regarding "gun control" from the same people who have armed security personnel with them )24/7 (i.e. Mayor Bloomberg, Rosie O'Donnell etc.). NO MORE DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO ENDORSEMENTS. 9. TV violence and the culture that has created So I agree with some of the things that you're saying but there's a lot more to it than JUST guns. Thanks.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/27/blogger-journal-news-addresses-gun-owners_n_2369750.html
In 2012, the Academy reaffirmed its commitment to advocating for the strongest possible firearm regulations. The absence of guns in homes and communities is the most reliable and effective measure to prevent firearm-related injuries in children and adolescents. The AAP supports a number of specific measures to reduce the destructive effects of guns in the lives of children and adolescents, including the regulation of the manufacture, sale, purchase, ownership, and use of firearms; a ban assault weapons; and expanded regulations of handguns for civilian use... 2012 State Action Following in the steps of a high profile 2011 Florida law, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and West Virginia all introduced bills that would restrict physician firearm counseling. The Tennessee and West Virginia bills were worded similarly to the Florida law, threatening disciplinary actions for a physician that asked about the presence of guns within a child’s home and play areas... In late June 2012, US District Judge Marcia G. Cooke (Southern District of Florida-Miami) issued a ruling permanently enjoining the Florida law restricting physician speech on firearms counseling from going into effect. The state of Florida has appealed the ruling to the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. . The Academy has signed on to an amicus brief supporting the lower court’s ruling... 
Racman..........Legal gun owners who have passed the stringent screening shouldn't be held responsible for the fools, the insane and the truly evil who commit these crimes. Look at the OTHER FACTORS involved here and that will plot the course for better laws. Like someone said...........SPOONS DON'T MAKE PEOPLE FAT; IT'S WHAT THE INDIVIDUAL DOES WITH THEM. Laws NEED to change but so does Hollywood, rap music, TV violence, videos, mental health laws etc. You want to PICK one thing (GUNS) but it's ALL interwoven. GOOD LUCK WITH HOLLYWOOD FOR STARTERS!!!
Wait a minute bad guy(s), I have to unlock my gun safe via combination...it might take a while so help yourselves to my family and belongings in the mean time. I bet you were never a victim.
Just wanted to clarify it.
Two problems. One, Americans do have the right to bear arms, not "may". Look at your precious list 63, it is a right. Two, "they've lost the moral high ground." This could only be true if RM63 were the Moral Authority in this world. Which of course he or she is not. I suspect most gun owners have a clear sense of from where their rights (and their moral authority) has been endowed. And it certainly ain't from "RM63". Here's an idea 63, why don't you and yours simply go about the proper procedures for changing the constitution? Maybe because in reality the numbers are not on your side. Not even close. God Bless.
Madwoman last night pushed a stranger onto subway tracks in Queens, where he was killed by a train, police and witnesses said. It was the second such nightmare in less than a month. The unsuspecting victim was waiting at the elevated 40th Street station of the 7 line in Sunnyside at 8 p.m. Better publish the names and addresses of all women with hands in the NY area immediately!!!!
http://www.azfamily.com/news/Sheriff-Arpaio-is-sending-posse-to-protect-schools-185012341.html
What is the difference between a steak knife and a murder weapon? Or a hammer and a murder weapon? Or those killer SUVs? Any sicko can purchase any of the aforementioned, and all, very unfortunately, have been used in horrifying, vicious murder/manslaughter cases in our beloved counties over the years. Quick, Ms. Hasson please print the names of every homeowner in Westchester and Rockland that legally owns cutlery, tools and an automobile. Please don't focus on the actual folks who take these inanimate objects and through their thoughts and actions use them to cause death and destruction. Let's not hold the people who commit these crimes responsible for their actions, that would be lunacy. Lets hold the lifeless, soul-less, brainless, emotionless objects they use to carry out their madness to account instead. Funny how the first amendment was followed immediately by the second. Perhaps now we know why. Those Crazy Founding Fathers... what a bunch of cooks!
~The Dalai Lama
Media Quiet About San Antonio Theater Shooting Saturday, December 29, 2012 7:16 Share 0 (Before It's News) On Sunday December 17, 2012, 2 days after the CT shooting, a man went to a restaurant in San Antonio to kill his X-girlfriend. After he shot her, most of the people in the restaurant fled next door to a theater. The gunman followed them and entered the theater so he could shoot more people. He started shooting and people in the theater started running and screaming. It’s like the Aurora, CO theater story plus a restaurant! Now aren’t you wondering why this isn’t a lead story in the national media along with the school shooting? There was an off duty county deputy at the theater. SHE pulled out her gun and shot the man 4 times before he had a chance to kill anyone. So since this story makes the point that the best thing to stop a bad person with a gun is a good person with a gun, the media is treating it like it never happened. Only the local media covered it. The city is giving her a medal next week. Just thought you’d like to know. Source Agenda revealed! If you had any doubts that the media was pushing for this and who their masters were, doubt no longer. This is spooky. Alot of what you read in the ‘conspiracy world’ is bull but there IS alot of truth too.. You just have to sort out the facts yourself. -Mort
Too bad you can't drag the dead lady in front of your kangaroo court and charge her for failing to lock her guns. She is the reason those kids are dead....she failed to commit her retard son, then she failed to keep a close eye on him and she also failed to lock up her guns. SHE is at fault. Not the tool he used. But the moronic left wing media just considers her a victim.....and I bet you do to.