By Chad D. Baus

These days, there seems to be little else for the gun ban lobby to do than to attempt to create an irrational fear of law-abiding citizens who chose to bear arms for self-defense.

The latest example, by Toby Hoover, who often appears to be a one-woman show at the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, comes in the form of a press release shouting “OHIO’S KIDS AT RISK OF BEING SHOT”! Hoover’s hope is that a single negligent discharge during a history demonstration at a school (in which no one was hurt), and an unconfirmed report of a criminal bringing a gun into a Toledo school (no criminal nor gun, nor evidence of his presence were ever found) will somehow prompt Ohioans to want to “turn them all in”, as Sen. Diane Feinstein once put it of her gun ban plans for America. As the rhetoric grows wilder, and the desperation shows through all the more clearly…

From: Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence (ocagv@yahoo.com)
Subject: rsvp and press release
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005

Press Release
May 26, 2005

OHIO’S KIDS AT RISK OF BEING SHOT