The Associated Press is reporting that an attorney representing three victims of a fatal nightclub shooting last December said he will file a wrongful death lawsuit against the club's owners.

From the story:

The Alrosa Villa nightclub did not provide adequate security, Columbus attorney Gerald Leesburg told The Columbus Dispatch for a story Thursday.

Nathan Gale, a former Marine, rushed the stage Dec. 8, 2004, and shot and killed renowned heavy metal guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, along with three others who tried to intervene.

Gale, 25, of Marysville, was still shooting and had taken a hostage when Columbus police Officer James Niggemeyer entered the nightclub and killed Gale with a shotgun blast while he still had the hostage in his arms. Investigators later said Gale had 35 bullets left.

"The entire case revolves around inadequate security - both what was in place that night and what those who were in place failed to do," Leesburg said.

Under current Ohio law, bearing handguns for self-defense in establishments which serve drinks under a Class D liquor license is illegal, even for employees. What has never been reported by the establishment media is that Ohio law prevents SECURITY at this nightclub from carrying a handgun, even if the club owner had wanted them to do so.

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News of a "firearms accident" in a small town in the Miami Valley this week has drawn nation attention, and although everyone from the Dayton Daily News to the Associated Press (USA Today, CBS News and countless others unquestioningly ran the AP version) have written on it, the facts about the firearm that was involved have yet to reported anywhere but on the Internet blogosphere.

First, from the AP story, Rapper kills himself with pen gun:

Steven Zorn had put the pen gun to his head and clicked before, apparently thinking it was jammed and would not work.

But on the third try, the tiny silver pistol went off as the 22-year-old budding rap artist was drinking to celebrate an impending record deal. He died at a hospital.

The Nov. 18 shooting at Zorn's home in this rural village of 2,000, about 50 miles northeast of Dayton, is believed to have been accidental, according to family, friends and law enforcement officials.

The Lima News has published an excellent story about how one man can make a difference when it comes to grassroots political activism.

From the story:

His first political battle taught Kenton’s Gary Oates an important lesson about the struggle for hunters’ rights.

In 1977, he helped raise money for a campaign to maintain trapping rights in Ohio. He went door to door to convince people how important the issue would be. Even 63 percent of voters favoring it, when preliminary polls showed only 20 percent of Ohioans favoring it, couldn’t dissuade him from remaining ever vigilant.

“I even knew in 1977 when we had that trapping issue that the harder we can beat them, the longer it’ll be before they come back,” the 60-year-old Oates said about the first statewide ballot initiative in the country to restrict hunting or trapping. “If we barely won, they’ll come back at us. And they certainly came back at us.”

For the past 30 years, Oates continued his defense of sportsmen’s rights in Ohio. The 950,000-circulation Outdoor Life magazine recognized him in the December/January 2006 issue in Doug Howlett’s article titled “5 People Who Are Making a Difference.”

Outdoor Life is one of the country’s largest outdoor-themed magazines. The article also recognized four other men for their contributions to protecting wildlife habitat, fighting anti-hunting groups and introducing children to the sport.

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