The University of Toledo Law School has announced that Toby Hoover, Executive Director of the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, will be speaking in the College of Law auditorium at noon on Wednesday, October 26.

On the law school's website, Hoover's appearance is inserted among guest speaker list that includes Marquette University Law School Professor Janine Geske, Capital University Professor Bradley A. Smith (Former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission), and University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Hamburger.

We're not aware that Hoover is the professor of anything, or why she rates a speaker's slot at this law school, but Buckeye Firearms Association believes this appearance provides Ohio gun owners and activists an excellent opportunity to ask Hoover about what she has done with the $633,200 she has received from the anti-gun Joyce Foundation (all the while claiming that her opponents (your NRA, BFA, etc.) are buying their success at the State House), or why she feels comfortable paying herself a hefty salary while working to destroy our Second Amendment rights (for more see Exposed: Pulling back the curtain on the gun grabbers' Wizard of Toledo)

We know that unlike Toby Hoover, gun rights activists have real jobs and fight for their rights in their free time, and as such many may not be able to go to this event. But if you're in the Toledo area Wednesday and have the lunch hour free, please make every effort to take this opportunity to ask a few pointed questions to this salaried gun ban extremist whose organization, according to UT Professor Brian Patrick "appears to have no tangible, mass membership at all--even though it claims to speak for millions", and who gets her funding from an out-of-state mega-foundation that wants to steal your Constitutional rights.

With the exception of a pro-S. 397 editorial from a California news daily, most in the media are still writhing in agony over the pass age of the "Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act."

Instead of their anti-gun rhetoric, an recent op-ed shows that what a responsible media should be reporting on is how greedy lawyers were behind most of the fight on this sensible tort reform legislation.

In a piece published at ChronWatch.com, author and researcher Howard Nemerov revealed that the same Senators who received heavy campaign donations from lawyers were the same ones who voted against tort reform during the hearing of S.397.

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From the socialist utopia of Great Britain, gun control capital of the West...

October 20, 2005
Derbyshire Times

Grandad lives in fear

A defiant grandad, who claims his drug-hit neighbourhood has become overrun
by crack and heroin dealers, has put knives in every room of his home in case he
has to defend himself.

Ron Coleman fears drug addicts on the troubled Grangewood Estate could raid
his home and says he has been forced to take the extreme measure in
self-defence.

Mr Coleman (66) who lives alone in a flat at Stockwell Court, off Birchwood
Crescent, said: "I have to protect [myself], and if anyone asks about human rights, I
say what about mine?

"We've complained to the council and police but they don't seem to have done
anything."

The retired bus driver added: "We want the authorities to enforce tenancy
laws because I want to live my life in peace and not have it blighted by
druggies."

But police have warned residents the only way to fight offenders is to
provide them with information to help secure convictions - and not to take the
law into their own hands.

Pc David Randall said: "Residents should never take matters into their own
hands and must allow authorities to deal with problems or they could get hurt or
locked up.

That attitude from law-enforcement toward this travesty would explain why the British government, distraught from the failure of gun control to stop violent criminal behavious, recently began looking into KNIFE control.

May such common sense as that enumerated below never escape our American consciousness...

The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage the keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. -- Thomas Paine, Writings of Thomas Paine at 56 (1894)

When one first learned of some of the sweeping changes proposed in Rep. Jim Aslanides' firearms law reform bill, House bill 347, it would have been logical to predict that establishment media opposition would come on language which would make all firearms laws in the state uniform, or language which would redefine what constitutes a "loaded" firearm in a motor vehicle. On the other hand, the logical person might have predicted that newspapers would have a hard time opposing language which would modify the media access loophole to allow a battered woman the chance to prevent the release of her personally identifying information to the media, or a family who has moved 3 times in 5 years in fear of a stalker.

But these predictions have all been wrong, because logic rarely makes it onto the editorial pages of Ohio's major newspapers.

Thus far, newspapers have entirely ignored the aspect of statewide preemption of local gun control laws, ignored provisions inserted at the request of law-enforcement, and ignored changes to ease red tape and make getting a concealed handgun easier.

In fact, to read their editorials, one would think that newspaper editors seem opposed to the legislation for no other reason than because it exists.

In the case of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the editorial page editor admitted to Buckeye Firearms Association that he had not read the bill before his newspaper wrote an erroneous editorial calling for it to be killed in committee or vetoed.