One day after a school teacher was carjacked at a Cincinnati UDF store, WHIOTV.com reported that a man is facing charges this week, having been accused of robbing two United Dairy Farmers stores and leading Dayton police on a high-speed chase.

From the story:

A grand jury indicted Elmer Hampton on charges of robbery by force, failure to comply and felonious assault on a police officer. Hampton was arrested after a chase through Dayton earlier this month.

Authorities said part of the chase went the wrong way on Interstate 75 and ended on Valley Street when officers blew out Hampton's tires.

He is accused of robbing two United Dairy Farmer stores before the pursuit.

Contact information for Ohio-based United Dairy Farmers is as follows:

United Dairy Farmers
Robert Lindner Jr., President
3955 Montgomery Rd.
Cincinnati,Ohio 45212
www.udfinc.com

Phone: 1-800-833-9911
Email: consumerrelations@udfinc.com

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USAToday is reporting that a newly-release study shows as many as 98,000 Americans still die each year because of medical errors, despite an unprecedented focus on patient safety over the last five years.

From the story:

Significant improvements have been made in some hospitals since the Institute of Medicine released a landmark report in 2000 that revealed many thousands of Americans die each year because of medical mistakes.

But nationwide, the pace of change is painstakingly slow, and the death rate has not changed much, according to the study in The Journal of the American Medical Association.

The researchers blame the complexity of health care systems, a lack of leadership, the reluctance of doctors to admit errors and an insurance reimbursement system that rewards errors - hospitals can bill for additional services needed when patients are injured by mistakes - but often will not pay for practices that reduce those errors.

"The medical community now knows what it needs to do to deal with the problem. It just has to overcome the barriers to doing it," says study co-author Lucian Leape of Harvard's School of Public Health.

To put this staggering number in perspective, look no further than to deaths involving firearms. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 762 accidental firearms-related deaths nationally in 2002, the most recent year statistics are available.

Don't the accidental deaths of 98,000 patients a year at the hands of physicians indicate that there are more important things the anti-gun American Medical Association should be spending its time on than attempting to promote various forms of gun control in the name of accident or "disease" prevention?

Not all physicians have come under the spell of the gun ban lobby. Those Ohioans fighting battles against a misinformed medical community would do well to consider the words of Dr. Timothy M. Billups, MD, FACEP, who submitted written testimony in support of House Bill 12, the legislation which became our OhioCCW law. Billups is a "residency trained, Board Certified Emergency Medicine physician" with "nine years of clinical experience in several Emergency Departments in the Cleveland and Akron areas".

For an even greater resource, check out Doctors for Sensible Gun Laws which is a collaborative effort by members of KeepAndBearArms.com.

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May 19, 2005
Cleveland Plain Dealer

Stopping along the highway leaves anyone in peril. A Pennsylvania doctor, his wife and a relative stopped on the Ohio Turnpike to change drivers. A car pulled up behind their vehicle, and a man got out, demanding money. Then he shot and killed the doctor and drove off.

Had the doctor been armed, instead of retrieving his wallet for the robber, he might have retrieved his gun, shot the robber and be alive today. But even if he had been an Ohio doctor with a concealed-carry permit and a gun, he would still be dead! Why?

Thanks to the Highway Patrol, Ohio's concealed-carry law stipulates that the gun must be: a) holstered and visible to the patrolman, or b) in a locked glove compartment or locked box, or c) in the trunk.

Now, pray tell, just how can an Ohio CCW permit holder with a gun defend against robbery, rape, kidnapping or carjacking if his gun isn't readily accessible?

So the Highway Patrol (a fraction of 1 percent of the population) has decreed that the other 99-plus percent of Ohioans who travel the state's roads shall be unable to defend themselves.

The whole CCW law needs revision. It is too restrictive.

John J. Myers
Medina

By Alan Gottlieb

Seventeen confirmed dead and hundreds injured. This was not the work of some stereotypical lunatic with a gun, but the handiwork of a careless reporter who must have graduated from the Dan Rather School of investigative journalism.

Now that Newsweek has lived up to the high standard of prevarication established by Jayson Blair at the New York Times and by Janet Cooke at Newsweek’s parent company, the Washington Post, maybe it’s time to establish the kind of ground rules for reporters that the anti-gun press has advocated for American gun owners, who never lied, or caused harm to anybody.

Why isn’t Sarah Brady screaming for a clampdown on “assault journalism?” Why can’t we demand some “common sense” controls on out-of-control reporters who go off half-cocked faster than a broken musket?

Where’s Chuck Schumer? He’s good at dancing in the blood of gunshot victims to push his gun control agenda. Why isn’t he just as eager to capitalize on the mayhem of riots that resulted from Newsweek’s bogus story about the Guantanamo Bay flush that never happened? Schumer’s never been one to hide from media exposure. This is the first time he’s missed the opportunity to trample his way to the television camera.

With tongue-in-cheek, let’s apply the same logic to exercising the First Amendment that the mainstream press has accepted as reasonable when applied to those exercising the Second Amendment. It might be shocking to members of the press just how eagerly American firearms owners would seriously embrace this concept of karma.

Click here to read the entire story from KeepandBearArms.com.

May 18, 2005
Toledo Blade

The silence is deafening. That is, I haven't heard of any comments or apologies from the anti-concealed-carry or anti-gun hawks who predicted road rage and wild west shoot-outs throughout the state when the CCW law was enacted a year ago. However, after a year, not one CCW citizen has been cited for any reason.

But the shootings continue as non-law-abiding crooks, robbers, thieves, and thugs continue their lifestyles of preying on innocent undefended people who are not educated about the security of CCW. Therefore, where people cannot or will not carry, their home will become a crime-friendly area.

I would like to see the anti-CCW and the anti-gun rights people reverse their thought processes and wage their discontent on the crooks with illegal weapons rather than innocent, law-abiding citizens who have the legal right to carry.

James L. Smith
Millbury, Ohio