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This may have been said already, but what if this man had been killed? The crooks/thiefs knew what they wree going after, and this 70 year old man would have had to hold off two or more attackers. Does this paper feel vindicated in putting gun-owners lives in peril or getting them killed? What if this genetlemen had grandchildren there at that time?
Just days before Christmas, the Journal News out of New York published a story headlined, "Where are the gun permits in your neighborhood?" The Journal News thought it was important to publish the names and addresses of every gun permit holder in Westchester and Rockland counties in the name of public safety and the public's right to know. Turns out, they accomplished the opposite by treating lawful gun permit holders like convicted sex offenders. The story received national attention and put gun permit holders and their non-holding neighbors at risk. Ex-convicts said the Journal News story was a...
like others have claimed but have never posted any facts to back it up with.
they will say that owning a gun increases your odds of dying by a gun.
then they would alos say that guns didnt protect him and thus do not work for their stated purpose/