Gene Policinski: What’s at stake in publishing public records such as gun permits

  Plenty of folks went a’ gunning verbally for the editors of the New York state newspaper that last month published the names and addresses of local pistol-permit holders.

  The nationwide flap over the special report has caused a deluge of negative e-mails, delivery of least one packet of suspicious powder and — in what many gleefully noted — led the newspaper to position armed security guards at its headquarters building.