Shame on Gannett and Avaaz, Enemies of Our Freedom

[Terry Osborn]

The Journal News is a local newspaper in Upstate New York.  It is owned by Gannett, the same media corporation that owns and operates Florida Today, our local birdcage carpet.  On Christmas Eve, the Journal News published a map and a list showing the names and addresses of nearly 44,000 people in their 3-county service area who are licensed to own a handgun.  (In New York, this is a license to simply own a handgun per the 2nd Amendment, not to carry one.)  The newspaper decided to invade the privacy of these families and to put them at significant risk, for NO public good.  It is simply an unabashed action to intimidate and shame these law-abiding citizens into giving up their right to own a handgun.  I am disgusted by this shameful act by a corporation that I enrich every day by subscribing to Florida Today.  That is, until today.  We will not continue to reward such an abuser of the citizens as Gannett.  We are canceling our subscription to Florida Today.  

While we are at it, we will place well-deserved shame on Avaaz, a global, one-world, far-left NGO supported heavily by George Soros, MoveOn and SEIU.  Avaaz has announced that they are waging a campaign to target Wyndham and Best Western hotel chains.  What horrible thing have these lodging chains done?  Well, they have the temerity to offer discounts to NRA members.  Avaaz believes giving a break to gun owners is a sin.  This is good enough for us.  We will, whenever we can, stay at Wyndham, Days Inn, Super 8, Ramada, Wingate, and Best Western hotels.  To misquote an old saying, any enemy of Avaaz is a friend of mine.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and keep your powder dry.

[David McLaughlin]

Look-ee Here...

http://www.newrochelletalk.com/content/map-where-are-journal-news-e...

[David McLaughlin]

Map: Where are the Journal News employees in your neighborhood?

map indicates the addresses of all Journal News Employees in the New York Tri-State area.

http://www.newrochelletalk.com/content/map-where-are-journal-news-e...

[David Folsom]

I suggest that if indeed the pen is mightier than the sword, we should publish the names and addresses of ALL Gannet employees. After all, Americans deserve to know if their neighbors are dangerous people.

[David McLaughlin]

AUSTRALIA: MORE VIOLENT CRIME DESPITE GUN BAN
April 13, 2009

It is a common fantasy that gun bans make society safer. In 2002 — five years after enacting its gun ban — the Australian Bureau of Criminology acknowledged there is no correlation between gun control and the use of firearms in violent crime. In fact, the percent of murders committed with a firearm was the highest it had ever been in 2006 (16.3 percent), says the D.C. Examiner.

Even Australia’s Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research acknowledges that the gun ban had no significant impact on the amount of gun-involved crime:

•In 2006, assault rose 49.2 percent and robbery 6.2 percent.
•Sexual assault — Australia’s equivalent term for rape — increased 29.9 percent.
•Overall, Australia’s violent crime rate rose 42.2 percent.
Moreover, Australia and the United States — where no gun-ban exists — both experienced similar decreases in murder rates:

•Between 1995 and 2007, Australia saw a 31.9 percent decrease; without a gun ban, America’s rate dropped 31.7 percent.
•During the same time period, all other violent crime indices increased in Australia: assault rose 49.2 percent and robbery 6.2 percent.
•Sexual assault — Australia’s equivalent term for rape — increased 29.9 percent.
•Overall, Australia’s violent crime rate rose 42.2 percent.
•At the same time, U.S. violent crime decreased 31.8 percent: rape dropped 19.2 percent; robbery decreased 33.2 percent; aggravated assault dropped 32.2 percent.
•Australian women are now raped over three times as often as American women.
While this doesn’t prove that more guns would impact crime rates, it does prove that gun control is a flawed policy. Furthermore, this highlights the most important point: gun banners promote failed policy regardless of the consequences to the people who must live with them, says the Examiner.

Source: Howard Nemerov, “Australia experiencing more violent crime despite gun ban,” D.C. Examiner, April 8, 2009.

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=17847