Anyone recall this incident?
Incidents like this have happened more than once. Assuming that a certain critical mass of ticked off permit toters can be reached, the following steps should be taken:
1.) Insistent, upset, but nonetheless polite and constant phone calls to the editor expressing your displeasure with the publication. (This will be ignored.)
2.) Putting the editors on notice by stating you will be contacting advertisers. (This will be ignored.)
2a.) If the newspaper folks really are jerks, look up their private home contact information and publish it online.
3.) Riffling through the local paper, calling up every advertiser, and politely but firmly explaining what the paper did, why it upsets you, and that you are considering a boycott of all local businesses that advertise in the paper. (If enough people do this, you will not be ignored.)
4.) The newspaper, once pressured enough by advertisers threatening to yank their ads, will pull the database down/promise not to publish the list ever again.
5.) The newspapers will publish editorials for a couple of weeks calling gun owners all kinds of nasty things and highlighting the three or four troglodytes who did write threatening and stupid letters.
6.) Petition your county/state representatives to amend the law prohibiting the concealed carry database from being made public due to concerns about public safety.
7.) WIN