Why Are Legal Gun Owners So Touchy?

Tues. January 8, 2013:

Dear Worthy Readers,
Could someone please explain to me why legally licensed, permit-owning Gun Owners are so touchy about being outed by a tiny suburban newspaper?  Certainly, Texas gun owners don't worry:

First, the NRA declined to comment for days after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown.  Then, at its press conference a week later, they told the press they would not take any questions after their spokesman Wayne LaPierre's prepared statement.

And now, legal permit owners are going ballistic after The Journal News -- a tiny suburban daily, out of White Plains and West Nyack, north of NYC.  Two weeks ago, the paper published names and addresses of handgun permit holders -- a total of 33,614 -- in two suburban counties, Westchester and Rockland, and put maps of their locations online.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/07/nyregion/after-pinpointing-gun-owners-journal-news-is-a-target.html?pagewanted=all

My question is, Why the outrage?!?  Why not be proud of your Supreme Court-interpreted 2nd Amendment right to keep & bear arms?  ARE YOU ASHAMED OF BEING OUTED FOR LEGALLY OWNING A PERMIT FOR A PISTOL?

If so, this alone should tell us something.  In this case, owners claim that bad-guys will now stake out their homes, in order to steal their fire-arms.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/01/burglars-say-gun-maps-posted-at-journal-news-makes-the-job-easier-safer/
[TALK ABOUT "HAVING IT BOTH WAYS"!  Alice in Wonderland, anyone?]

But wouldn't the adage of NRA's Wayne LaPierre kick in?  Wouldn't "bad guys with a gun" be afraid to burgle the homes of "good guys with a gun"?  Here is the take of NRA sympathizers, after they sent anonymous threats from around the country:

Here is the Boston Globe's editorial from Jan. 5,
entitled "Gun Permit Map Stirs Furor, But Public Discussion Needed":

The most reasonable critique of the newspaper is that the map doesn't present a complete picture of the extent of gun ownership in Westchester and Rockland counties.  After all, a permit holder might own multiple pistols, or none at all.  The map doesn't include rifles or shotguns, which don't require permits in New York, and doesn't account for illegally held weapons.

But just because the Journal News's report could have been done differently doesn't mean it shouldn't have been done at all.  The newspaper has acted within its journalistic mission.  New York's pistol permits are a public record.  Many residents would undoubtedly like to know if they are living next to a gun owner, but lack the time to file a public record request.  The more broadly the names of permit holders are known, the more likely someone is to notice if a dangerous individual was mistakenly granted one.  The presence of guns in a home is also a public health risk factor that individual parents, for instance, may wish to weigh; while many gun owners sincerely believe themselves to be protecting themselves and their families, studies show a correlation between gun ownership and death by gun.

The objection of gun owners, aside from the concern that they are being stigmatized . . . 

AGAIN, MY QUESTION IS, WHY DO THEY FEEL STIGMATIZED?  AREN'T THEY PROUD OF EXERCISING THEIR "2ND AMENDMENT RIGHT"?  NEWTOWN'S MASSACRE SEEMS TO HAVE CONVERTED THEM INTO TOUCHIES!  DON'T YOU WONDER WHY, TOO?