Jumping the gun
I stated here that if the Cleveland Plain Dealer stuck to its promise to publish a list of permit holders in Ohio that I would publish the names, home addresses, and home numbers of their staff here. I encouraged others to do the same. Some other bloggers are jumping the gun and posting the editor’s information.
Could be jumping the gun on this one guys but I don’t quite disapprove yet. It’s a preemptive strike, I suppose.
January 12th, 2004 at 11:04 am
That’s the way I feel about it.
January 12th, 2004 at 12:24 pm
If someone told you he was going to kill you, would you shoot now or wait until he had fired the first shot?
January 12th, 2004 at 4:50 pm
Well, considering the treatment gun owners have receieved from the press, I would say it’s closer to being a delayed retaliatory strike than pre-emptive. But perhaps it’ll cause the papers to realize the imlplications of what they’re doing. maybe they won’t be so keyed up to publish names if they know we’re ready to respond in kind.
So I view this as a shot across the bow.
January 12th, 2004 at 6:56 pm
Any more addresses you can scrounge up that we can publish?
January 12th, 2004 at 1:44 pm
Sauce for the Goose
The anti-gun-owner fanatics over that the Cleveland Cocaine Plain Dealer is threatening to “out” all citizens who dare to obtain permits to carry concealed weapons. Get a load of the Dealer’s pious excuse for their yellow journalism tactics: Since Taft…