Leftwing Newspaper Gone Too Far?

[Brian37]

Everyone in that area would knows who's packin heat and not to fuck with that house.

Then again, if you want to steal a gun from one of these NRA asswipes you now know where to go. Let's face it, most of them would piss their pants if a real criminal ever came after them.

Still, this is NOT a social issue, this is a tactic issue and journalists should be the last line of defense against fascism, when they start invading privacy themselves they violate the public trust, and that is something that affects all citizens.

Now again, I am not talking about a story being brought to them. I am also not talking about a whistle blower coming to them. And I am also not talking about an investigative story where the reporter suspects a crime is in action.

They printed the addresses of people who had not broken any laws(even if I don't like our current gun laws). AND on top of that they were not going after say Bush or Obama or Jay Leno. They went after no name citizens, and again they violated a very basic principle of public vs private figure.

The right thing would have been to go after gun manufacturers, politicians and the NRA lobbyists. They should stick to putting gun death stories on the front page and the opinion columns.

This tactic they used could be used against private citizens who value other social issues, like contraception, or alcohol, or porn, or infidelity issues.

It was Orwellian on par with 1984.