The story has quickly spread across the nation:

A suburban Cincinnati woman is obsessed with becoming pregnant. She fakes her own pregnancy, obtains private information from an online Babies R Us gift registry, and creates an elaborate plot to lure a pregant neighbor into her home.

All the while, she is plotting to murder the mother and steal the baby from her womb.

But the mother didn't wait to dial 911. When her attacker drew a 5" knife, raised it into an overhand thrust position and began attacking, she fought back, hitting her attacker with an ashtray before taking away the knife and stabbing her attacker to death.

This story should be a lesson to all, and the lessons can be summarized from these words, which can be found at http://www.a-human-right.com:

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When a threat to your safety comes from a hostile human, it is unrealistic to expect that an assault would be postponed long enough to let you call for help. "Excuse me, Mr.Attacker, I need to call my local police officer and ask for his presence." Right.

Sometimes avoiding a criminal attack is not possible. Fortunately, elementary precautions enable us not to become helpless victims of such attacks. Consider being armed a form of immunization.

In the event that you do manage to ask for help, your savior may be too long in coming. When the source of danger is right next to you and the police cruiser starts from ten miles away, it isn't likely that the cops would do more than take in evidence. Counting on your neighbors is far from certain, either. Kitty Genovese and many others have learned the hard way that bystanders dislike getting involved in confrontations between strangers.

This mother was lucky. Most defenseless people, when confronted by an armed attacker intent on taking their life, do not live to tell the tale. Being prey is a choice. Is it your choice?

From a newsroom which has become infamous for left-wing hackjob reporting (the fraudulent Rathergate memos being Exhibit #1) comes a surprisingly balanced look at the battle over parking lot bans in America, and how one man's life has been affected by a business who denies its employees their Constitutional rights.

When gun and corporate cultures clashed in southeast Oklahoma, Jimmy Wyatt got caught in the crossfire.

"I've had it for over 20 years ... They're very much a part of life," says Wyatt of his guns. "We all carry them."

But in 2002, as CBS News Correspondent Bill Whitaker reports, a surprise sweep of the parking lot found Wyatt and 11 other employees of paper giant Weyerhauser had guns locked in their vehicles, a violation of a new corporate policy. They all said they didn't know the policy had changed. They were fired almost on the spot.

"They done me wrong," says Wyatt of his employer. "Ruined my life, basically."

"I have a wife and five kids. I'm nearly on food stamps. My one girl just had to drop out of college. I'm nearly on food stamps."

Click here for the printed version of the CBS Evening News story. The full length video news report is available via streaming video.

These Ohio criminals didn't care whether guns were banned at their workplaces...

Two Ohio newspapers this week reported that two separate 911 services went down unexpectedly and for several hours.

On February 8, the Lorain Morning Journal reported that the telephone system at the Erie County Sheriff's Office died for about 1 1/2 hours Saturday morning, meaning no one could call into the sheriff's office -- including 911 calls.

And on Friday, Feb. 11, the Toledo Blade
reported that in some parts of Wood, Hancock, and Sandusky counties were unable to dial 911 for about three hours yesterday after a fiber-optic line was cut near McComb in Hancock County.

Even when these systems are working properly, calling for help in the midst of a violent attack amounts to ordering your own mop-up squad. Only you can protect you.

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Dial 911 & Die

February 10, 2005
Athens News

Gun-rights advocate Reginald Jones used humor and a dynamic, informal speaking style to deliver his inflammatory message -- "Gun control is racist" -- at Ohio University Thursday night.

"People are surprised to hear that," Jones told a small crowd of about 25 people in Baker Center's 1804 Room. Jones maintained that gun-control laws were used to keep blacks from defending themselves against the Ku Klux Klan in the old South and against the "criminal class" in the urban ghettos of today.

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Jones, whose visit was sponsored by the OU Second Amendment Club and conservative group Young America's Foundation, is a 25-year veteran of the entertainment business and has appeared on national television news broadcasts.

"The inception of (gun-control) laws were to keep blacks down," he said. "Blacks are at the mercy of the criminal class. We can't hold criminals accountable, so we hold guns accountable."

Jones noted that no one supports the banning of knives, which also can kill.

Jones advocated getting rid of mandatory trigger locks and waiting periods for firearms sales because they violate the Second Amendment by restricting a citizen's ability to arm him- or herself.

"Sure, I support a five-day waiting period for guns. I also support a five-day waiting period for free speech," he quipped. "What if I get mugged on the third day (of my waiting period)? Do people even think about the folly of the stupidity of these laws?"

Click here to read the entire story in the Athens News.

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