Robbery Turns To Murder Of A Single Mom
25-Year-Old Attacked As She Left Work Late Tuesday

On December 1, WTOV9.com (NBC Steubenville) reported on a crime that should force businesses that actively disarm patrons and employees to consider the results of their actions. It should also force citizens who have not yet made the decision to obtain a concealed handgun license to readdress their apathy.

The station reports that 25-year-old Jamie Kelly had only worked at Merrin's Market in Amsterdam for two months or so on the night of her attack.

According to the story, Kelly was leaving work after her shift, late Tuesday evening, walking out the back entrance to the mom-and-pop store into the well-lit parking lot. From there, the report says, what was probably no different from any other evening changed astoundingly.

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The Mansfield News Journal has published an in-depth story about a home invasion that occurred on a quiet sleepy country road at 9:10 a.m. last Friday morning (the paper first reported on this home invasion on December 11).

Quotes taken from both stories are extemely enlightening:

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The Akron Beacon Journal reported Dec. 11 that a 56-year-old man was knocked to the ground in broad daylight while leaving the Sparkle Market at 1028 Hammel Ave. on Thursday.

His attackers grabbed his keys, and took his vehicle, a 1995 burgundy Oldsmobile Cutlass bearing the Ohio license plate BFS-5726.

It has not yet been determined if this Sparkle's location is one of several which have posted "no-guns" signs. Several Sparkle's stores are listed on OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed database because they have posted dangerous and discriminatory signs banning CHL-holders.

In any case, this incident, along with others across the state, reinforce the fact that DANGEROUS ATTACKS CAN COME AT ANY TIME, ANYWHERE:

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December 12, 2004
Columbus Dispatch

The shooting at the Alrosa Villa, ("5 killed in concert chaos," Dispatch article, Thursday) highlights a problem with Ohio’s concealed-carry law. License holders are prohibited by law from carrying their weapons in establishments that sell alcohol for consumption on the premises.

As a result, Nathan Gale was the only one at the Alrosa on Wednesday night with a weapon until the police arrived. Fortunately, Officer James D. Niggemeyer arrived quickly, ending the incident before even more people were killed.

Ohio’s law needs to be changed so that license holders are no longer restricted in this manner.

Jerry Morrison
Dublin

Not everyone sees it as clearly as Mr. Morrison. Click on the "Read More..." link below to read two letters from gun ban extremists in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.