October 21, 2004
Newark Advocate

About 500 organizations around the world, with the help from the United Nations and American politicians, are working to ban our guns.

The first step will be an international treaty outlawing firearms enacted by the United Nations in July of 2006. This treaty -- the first step on their gun ban agenda before gun confiscation -- is a time bomb ticking underneath your Second Amendment rights if we elect a president willing to sign the treaty and a Senate to ratify it.

I have no doubt that, as president, Kerry would sign this treaty. Kerry has a record of more than 50 anti-gun votes. The House has the power to block any gun ban legislation passed by the Senate but has no authority to block an international U.N. gun control treaty.

Rebecca Peters is head of the International Action Network on Small Arms, and is leading this ban for the U.N. She led the successful fight that disarmed people in Australia. She threatens the rights of every free citizen on Earth. She's financed by George Soros, the same billionaire backing the Democratic Party with all the 527 ads to defeat the president. He's an atheist who wants to legalize drugs, remove God from our country, and legalize gay marriages. He has bankrolled lawsuits to bankrupt the firearms companies. All he needs is a pro-U.N., anti-gun president.

Don't think this can't happen in this country, because it can with the Democrats in office. We all need to fight for our Second Amendment rights by defeating the Democrats this election.

Lloyd R. Jugling
Newark

October 21, 2004
Mansfield News Journal

As the campaign trail progressed during the past months, both sides have stated their positions on a great many issues. The thing that amazes me is Sen. Kerry keeps referring to himself as a hunter who will not do anything to destroy our Second Amendment rights. Really? Is that why he has voted more than 50 times for gun legislation that would do just that?

A recent union mailing came to my house explained his pro-gun position, and had a picture of him holding a shotgun he received from a certain union. Trouble with the photo is the gun he is holding he himself voted to ban. He has a Senate record of being weak on defense and gun owners' rights. If you really want to keep America strong, cast your vote for a proven leader in times of trouble, George W. Bush.

Mike Switzer
Lucas

October 21, 2004
Warren Tribune Chronicle

By STEPHEN ORAVECZ

AUSTINTOWN - Shirley Williams of Hubbard said Wednesday that she loves her gun and called the Democratic presidential candidate a backstabber.

Williams, 71, was one of about two dozen people who attended a news conference at the Austintown Sports Center, where two representatives of the Bush-Cheney campaign said the president was the best choice for sportsmen and gun owners. The event was held in anticipation of Kerry's duck hunting trip this morning in Mahoning County.

Meanwhile, the National Rifle Association also has called a press conference today in Howland in response to Kerry's hunting trip.

A Kerry spokesman said Kerry supports the Second Amendment, and the NRA has not been truthful about his record.

A member of the Vienna Fish and Game Club and Ohio Gun Collectors and treasurer of the Trumbull County Federation of Sportsman, Williams said, "I think Kerry has been backstabbing us.''

"He has not been pro-gun for 20 years,'' said Williams, who said she had been a registered Democrat since 1965. "I watched this man for 20 years in the Senate vote against us, and all of a sudden he's a hunter. I can't buy it.''

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October 21, 2004
Associated Press

BOARDMAN, Ohio - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said he bagged a goose on his swing-state hunting trip Thursday, but his real target was the voters who may harbor doubts about him.

Kerry returned after a two-hour hunting trip wearing a camouflage jacket and carrying a 12-gauge shotgun, but someone else carried the bird he said he shot.

"I'm too lazy," Kerry joked. "I'm still giddy over the Red Sox. It was hard to focus."

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Commentary:
Hmm....he lacks the focus to carry a goose, but he isn't at all concerned about carrying and firing a shotgun. He says he's ready to handle the "hard work" of being President, but he's "too lazy" to carry the bird he supposedly shot.

Although he claims to be an avid hunter, Kerry has never joined the 315-member of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus. And extremist groups know his true feelings about hunting. John Kerry has a 100 percent "A" rating from radical animal "rights" groups like PETA and the Fund for Animals.

UPDATE! The Drudge Report has exclusively published the Reporters Pool Report On Kerry Hunting...

Not that it was staged or anything, Loftus explained: "He's going to walk down that line of corn. He'll turn down there and walk up this way. Then we will move with great dispatch up there." No questions were to be asked, we were informed.

Woody, the yellow dog, was the only one who seemed to stray from stage notes. He kept running up to the man ahead carrying the fourth bird, then racing back to the four hunters, only to tag them and race back ahead. "The dog is out of position," sighed one shooter.

More revelations: Kerry camo purchased just prior to photo-op; no reporters saw him fire, no reporters saw him hit; did NOT take bird as he exited our state on his private jet...

Impacting Ohio gun-owners hard...

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You carry jumper cables, a spare tire, a first aid kit, extra blankets, flashlights and a fire extinguisher in your car. You wear your seatbelt. You buy homeowners insurance, medical insurance, vehicle insurance, uninsured motorists insurance, and emergency tow insurance. So why not carry the best-available tool of self-defense?

These women were all lucky. Most abductees don't get to come home.

Akron, Oct. 21, 2004: Woman jumps out of car, escapes captor
Maj. Tim Escola of the Jackson Township Police Department said the woman left the Westfield Shoppingtown Belden Village at 4:55 p.m. and noticed she was being followed. At her car, a man showed a handgun and forced her into the passenger's side.

The man started driving the car out of the mall lot when the woman's cell phone rang, Escola said. The woman told the abductor she had to take the call, and when she leaned over to answer the phone, swiftly unlocked the door and jumped out.

Fremont, October 15, 2004: Woman survives armed robbery/kidnapping
Police said a clerk at PDK's Drive-Thru, 3724 N. Ohio 53 in Rice Township, was accosted about noon Thursday by a man armed with a pistol.

The man entered the establishment and told her to close and lock all the doors and open the cash register. When she was not able to do so because the electricity was turned off, the man took her keys and purse and began to force her into her car. After entering the passenger side, he handed her the keys, saying he would not hurt her but she had to drive.

At the yield sign at County Road 99 and 170, the victim put the car in park and got out of the vehicle, saying he could have the car but she would not go with him.

As she walked away, the man yelled that he had her driver's license and that he knew where to find her. When she turned around again, he had taken the gun from his pants.

The woman continued walking in the opposite direction, and when she heard the car take off, she ran through a field to the residence of a local man who called police.

Millersburg, October 12, 2004: Authorities searching for abduction suspect
A 55-year-old Prairie Township woman said she was riding her bicycle on Township Road 323 about 7:20 p.m. when a car stopped in the middle of the road, the driver got out and asked for directions to Berlin and then grabbed her from behind.

She said the man repeatedly said he would not hurt her as he dragged her to his car and forced her into the front passenger seat, then climbed over her into the driver's seat and sped off.

According to her statement, the abductor sped south on Township Road 323, made a U-turn and drove back toward County Road 320. She said she escaped when he slowed to cross a narrow bridge, and she was able to open the door and jump out.

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October 20, 2004
Zanesville Times Recorder

OK, folks in the central Ohio area, here's the thing; The National Rifle Association has, as I sit here in front of the computer, just announced that it is endorsing George Bush for president.
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I agree with them. The Democratic ticket can be characterized as the "most anti-gun ticket for president of the U.S. ever to be run for the highest job in the land." John Kerry is a co-sponsor of Senate Bill 1431 which, if enacted, will ban all semiauto shotguns and many semiauto rifles that accept a clip. He is very active in many other attempts to deny the use of firearms from you and I. He is an avid gun hater, not a so-called "sportsman" as he likes to call himself.

If you value your freedom, lend your wholehearted support to electing a president who believes you have the rights of a free person: George Bush.

Lawrence Sceurman
Dresden

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Kerry Goes Hunting for Votes in Ohio
As Kerry goes hunting, readers of the Youngstown newspaper will see a full-page ad bought by the National Rifle Association that says Kerry is posing as a sportsman while opposing gun-owners' rights.

"If John Kerry thinks the Second Amendment is about photo ops, he's Daffy," says the ad the NRA said would run in The Vindicator. It features a large photo of Kerry with his finger on a shotgun trigger but looking in another direction.

Kerry to tote shotgun today - Hunt an act, say gun-rights foes
When Sen. John Kerry goes duck hunting today in Mahoning County, Ohio, it won't be because he's craving carnard a l'orange for dinner.

NRA officials will be in nearby Warren, Ohio, to hold their own news conference with this message for Kerry, according to a news release: "You can stage duck hunting photo-ops, but you can't hide from your 20-year anti-gun, anti-hunting record."

Cartoon courtesy of Jeff Riffle