It's always nice to welcome a new convert, especially a former "Million" Mom. Since many of her former associates read our website, we thought it'd be worth sharing Allison's story.

By Allison Brown
November 12, 2003
LewRockwell.com

As a child, I was pretty much fearless.

My mom relates plenty of stories – me, at the age of three, marching down the street to confront a bully who had tormented my older sister. And at the age of five, sitting atop the streetlight waving to the occasional passing car, a good 20 feet below.

Of course, we’ve all heard the saying that courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act in the face of fear. So perhaps I wasn’t so much brave as simply stupid. I prefer brave – although, after reading this article, I’m sure most of you will choose stupid (but hopefully getting smarter by the day).

I guess I grew a bit more cautious as I entered adulthood, although not a lot. But through it all, no matter what stage of life, there was something that was sure to strike complete fear into me. It took only the mention of the word to make my heart nearly stop beating. The thing that I viewed as the devil itself, the worst invention ever, the single biggest cause of most of our country’s woes – yes, THE GUN. I didn’t want to touch one or even see one, much less own one. And I firmly believed that no one else should either. Guns killed people. No one needed that.

It was one of those issues that, for me, was completely black and white. No grey areas. I made my position clear to anyone who asked. I was a card-carrying member of Handgun Control, Inc, – a fact I am now ashamed to admit (hey, think they’ll give my money back if I ask?).

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OFCC's Dan White, organizer of the highly successful Lorain 'Defense' Walk in October, is getting in the Holiday spirit, and he's inviting you to join him!

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On November 21, the Gannett-owned Newark Advocate published an editorial praising Bob Taft for his latest opposition to House Bill 12. That editorial was published in the Lancaster Eagle Gazette (another Gannett paper) three days later, on November 24. Eagle-Gazette editors gave no credit to the editors of the Newark Advocate on their website - readers were left to assume editors in Lancaster wrote the piece.

At least that bit of cut-and-paste was "in the family". But now there's more of the same going around at Gannett, and this time it's not the Gannett "family" they're mirroring.

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A Dec. 4 Advocate editorial, entitled "Criminals will check records of gun
owners? Yeah, right", is a word-for-word copy of a Nov. 30 Cleveland Plain Dealer editorial, entitled Silly idea deserves serious veto. As with the Lancaster paper Nov. 24, Gannett's Newark Advocate editors give no credit to the Plain Dealer on the Advocate's website*.

We'd like to think that's because they deserve no credit.

OFCC's Greg Kopp had this to say after reading the Plain Dealer's editorial:

Dec. 04, 2003
Akron Beacon Journal

Akron SWAT trainer foils possible robbery
Plainclothes officer, sensing he's target, arrests man

Rule One for would-be criminals: If you're planning a robbery, don't make the lead instructor for the police SWAT team your target.

Akron police officer Kevin R. Davis, in plainclothes, was on his way to the Peanut Shoppe on South Main Street at lunchtime Wednesday when his peanut break turned into a bust.

Davis had left the training bureau at One Cascade Plaza and walked from the Cascade Parking Deck into an elevator lobby, where he saw a masked man standing with what he thought was a gun. The man said "excuse me'' to Davis and then mumbled something, Davis said.

"I thought he was trying to rob me,'' said Davis, 42, a 14-year police veteran. "I thought he was going to shoot me.''

So, Davis said, he quickly moved to the left of the man, pulled out his police pistol and ordered the man to put his gun down and get on the ground.

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