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Couldn't they have gotten by with some community organizers armed with pepper spray?
Remember the Journal News? They're the newspaper that gathered and published the addresses of gun owners last week and the same publication planning to publish even more despite national outrage the first time around. While they continue to treat law abiding citizens exercising their Second Amendment right like convicted sex offenders, the newspaper has hired armed security after addresses of editors and executives were published online in the same fashion.
A Clarkstown police report...
of course,there's always Wasp spray;bigger can,longer range,and legal everywhere.