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Comment by Jim Kuhn on December 30, 2012 at 12:17am

Turn-a-bout is fair play...it is about time we Conservatives started fighting back using the Libtards own tactics...this is just a taste, stay tuned Dems and Libs, EVERY time you publish stuff like this that will end up actually hurting people, then expect to get it shoved right back in your face....

Comment by Pam Vredenburg on December 27, 2012 at 5:01pm

"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," Janet Hasson, president and publisher of the Journal News Media Group, told POLITICO Wednesday in a statement. In an accompanying piece, the paper had said that some citizens "would like lawmakers to expand the amount of information the public can find out about gun owners" after the Newtown massacre.

Fountain swung back at that response.

"Well, she could have just published the number of gun permits, which is actually quite small, if she wanted to show an issue that there are 2,000 legally registered guns in her county, fine," he said. "But the fact that they put the addresses — I've received e-mails from abused women who were under protective order and in hiding and they're terribly afraid that now their names and addresses are all over the Internet and accessible through that map."

He added that he was giving the paper a taste of its own medicine.

"The media has been exposing, harassing personal details of people for a long time," Fountain said. "I don't believe I'm escalating, I believe I'm punching back.

"My original point in posting this was to just show those particular reporters and the publisher what it feels like," he continued.

The map that was eventually posted offered a much more extensive list of Journal News employees.