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After shooting outside ''no-guns'' 5/3 bank, criminal hops ''no-guns'' COTA bus

MSNBC.com is reporting that a man was shot and killed Saturday afternoon in a corridor, connecting a "no-guns" Fifth-Third Bank building to a Wendy's restaurant.

Detectives told the news media the gunman stormed onto State Street after the shooting and might have hopped on a "no-guns" city bus.

Commentary by Chad D. Baus:
The following political subdivisions in Ohio illegally ban CHL-holders from city busses:

  • SARTA public transportation service, Canton
  • GCRTA public transportation service, Cleveland
  • COTA public transportation service, Columbus
  • GDRTA public transportation service, Dayton
  • LAKETRAN public transportation service, Grand River
  • TARTA public transport service, Toledo
  • WRTA public transport service, Youngstown

    Just whose side are they on?

    Contact information for these and other taxpayer funded entities is available on OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed database.

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    Fifth Third: Signs not posted to keep criminals out; They want to keep YOU out

  • Poll: 2/3 of Ohioans believe others have too much info about them

    The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that, in a Columbus-area poll conducted by the newspaper, two-thirds of respondents said other Ohioans have too much access to personal information about them.

    While the Dispatch is happy to tout a result which showed that "about 75 percent said Ohioans have either too little or about the right amount of access to government records", as with most public opinion polls, the devil really is in the details.

    The number of people who think more access is needed stood at just 37%. And 66% said they believe too much personal information is available to the public.

    The poll also indicated Ohioans are more interested in records related to the activities of law-breakers than in personal information about their neighbors.

    From the story:

      ...Almost nine in 10 central Ohioans strongly agree that they want access to the names of sexual offenders; nearly eight in 10 want a look at restaurant health inspections; and seven in 10 want to see local crime reports.

      But only a little more than four in 10 strongly agree that the public should have access to records showing local government officials’ expense accounts or the police chief’s salary and benefits.

      And two-thirds say other Ohioans have too much access to personal information about them.

    Multiple victim public shootings in places where guns are banned

    The headlines are filled again with news of multiple victim public shootings, and as do 90% of these types of crimes, they occurred in victim zones - places where guns are banned.

  • Defendant overpowers deputy, kills three at courthouse
    Friday morning, Nichols overpowered a deputy on the way to court, then shot Fulton County Superior Court Judge Rowland W. Barnes and court reporter Julie Ann Brandau before killing another deputy while fleeing the building, Atlanta police said.

    The shootings occurred about 9 a.m. as Nichols was being led into Barnes' eighth-floor courtroom, Dreher said. Nichols was being retried on rape, false imprisonment and other charges after a first trial last week ended in a hung jury. The second trial began Monday.

    A COURTHOUSE WEAPONS BAN DID NOT STOP THIS CRIME, BUT IT DID PREVENT ANYONE FROM BEING ABLE TO STOP THIS CRIMINAL.

  • Seven victims dead at Wisconsin church service
    A man opened fire with a handgun at a church service in a Wisconsin hotel on Saturday, killing seven people and wounding four before taking his own life, police said.

    Four victims and the gunman died at the scene and three others died later at a hospital.

    What prompted the violence at the Sheraton Hotel in Brookfield 10 miles west of Milwaukee during a regular service of the Living Church of God in a meeting room was still under investigation, Brookfield's police chief, Dan Tushaus, told reporters.

    He said the unidentified 45-year-old shooter "was either a member or somehow affiliated with the church" and that he entered the service while in session and began firing.

    A STATE CONCEALED CARRY BAN DID NOT STOP THIS CRIME, BUT IT DID PREVENT ANYONE FROM BEING ABLE TO STOP THIS CRIMINAL.