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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Editor in Gun Records Disgrace Quits

You may have read yesterday about the disgraceful actions of the publisher of a small newspaper  in North Carolina, the Cherokee Scout, who wrote one of  the most embarrassing "note to readers" ever in genuflecting to local gun owners, apologizing and seeking their forgiveness--even though some of them had apparently threatened the life of the editor who dared put in a public records request to the local sheriff.  The editor, Robert Horne,  43, had not even planned to publish the names of local gun permit holders--as happened with the controversy surrounding my own local paper, The Journal News, in New York--but simply to tally their numbers.

Now the other shoe has dropped--and the editor has been forced (we presume) to resign--though Horne tells Jim Romenesko that he chose to go (and is even moving out of the state, no wonder).   Catch up with the whole hideous story here.

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