Q: What Does Harassing Gun Owners Earn Journalists? A: A Pink Slip

Hey, remember when New York newspaper the Rockland County Journal News published a map showing the locations of gun permit owners?

Well, today the newspaper laid off 26 staffers, including Chief Editor Caryn McBride, who published and vocally defended the story.

This is a reoccurring theme. Remember Rebecca Aguilar, the Dallas reporter who harassed a lawful gun-owner on air for having the sheer effrontery to defend himself from a criminal using deadly force? She got a pink slip too.

Funny how attacking millions of law-abiding readers is a career-ending move for journalists…

About Lawrence Person

Lawrence Person is a political commentator and science fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. His political work has appeared in National Review, Reason, The Freeman, Liberty and The World & I. His SF has appeared in Asimov's, Analog, F&SF, Postscripts, Jim Baen's Universe, Fear, and several anthologies. He owns such a large library (mostly science fiction first editions) he had to buy a two-story house to put it in, and then adopted a golden retriever to drag him out of his house on a regular basis.
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