From the You-Can’t-Make-This-Shit-Up department:

So the ‘Journal News,’ the paper that published the gun map, has hired armed security guards: politi.co/YMqp0H ^[1]

— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) January 1, 2013 ^[2]

That’s right — the exceptionally anti-gun, anti-second amendment pantie wetters at the Journal News has hired armed security. I wonder if any of the men with guns that they’ve hired are listed on their maps?

The Journal News ^[3] of West Nyack, N.Y., has hired armed security guards to defend its offices after receiving a torrent of phone calls and emails responding to the paper’s publication of the names and addresses of area residents with pistol permits.

RGA Investigations, a private security company, “is doing private security at on location at the Journal News as a result of the negative response to the article,” according to a police report first obtained by the Rockland County Times (Nanuet, N.Y.) and shared with POLITICO. The guards “are armed and will be on site during business hours through at least January 2, 2013.”

Note that they didn’t hire the armed guards in response to threats received (violent or otherwise), but rather because they received some “negative responses” to their tactics. Bunch of fucking hypocritical cowards.

So let me get this straight: You yahoos at the Journal News now believe that the presence of good guys with guns in your office to (ostensibly) protect you from bad men with guns (or other evil intent) who may or may not target you for your unprovoked attack on their privacy is a good thing? But the presence of good guys with guns in schools is evil? Is this because you don’t believe that our helpless and innocent children’s lives are as important as yours?

Next thing you’ll tell me is that the biggest anti-gun bed wetter in the State, Mayor Bloomberg, also has armed security and body guards…oh wait…