Flack over gun owners map

Gun owners map

Sometimes Liberals don't think their actions have consequences and now the news agency which published the map of NY gun owners is getting a taste of their own medicine.
Apparently at least one blogger has posted his own map showing locations of all the news reporters homes and even pictures of some of their children and where they attend school. This has caused many of them to receive death threats and some have had to flee after receiving a white powder in the mail (even though it turned out to be harmless). The News Paper is having to pay for some of the reporters to stay in hotels because they are afraid to return home.
One of the most baffling aspects of this story is the news agency has posted armed guards at their offices to protect themselves....this I truly don't understand, why not just create a 'Gun Free Zone' around their office ?
All this does make you wonder, it there is this much backlash over the publishing of a gun owners map in a couple of counties in a liberal state like NY what kind of backlash would we see if the government tried a gun ban across the entire country. 
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