For the second time in three days, an Ohio Concealed Handgun License-holder has been able to defend their own lives and wound an assailant when targeted for robbery.

On early Wednesday morning, in Cincinnati, a CHL-holder was ambushed, shot three times, and still managed to return fire and injure one of his attackers. The grandmother of the man's girlfriend, who called police after the attack, told the Cincinnati news media that his choice to obtain a CHL was the difference between life and death. "It saved his life, I think. I think it saved him. I think so," she said.

Forty-eight hours later, on Friday, the Dayton Daily News reports that a Dayton CHL-holder also defended his life against armed robbers.

From the story:

Two men carrying guns approached a 40-year-old man at Riverview Avenue and Catalpa Drive early Friday. Their victim bent over with outstretched hands.

Then things changed swiftly.

The targeted man pulled out a Glock 23 handgun — he has a concealed-carry permit — and fired several shots, hitting one of the gunmen, police said.

According to the DDN, police responded to numerous calls of shots fired, and found the 40-year-old male victim (the CHL-holder) at his Dayton residence. Again, from the story:

He told them that he was walking west on Riverview when he was approached by two males in dark clothing coming from Catalpa. One shoved the victim, the victim turned around and both men in dark clothes flashed handguns, police said.

The victim then "began to back away in a bent-over position with his hands outstretched," according to a police report. Then he pulled out a Glock 23, a .40-caliber handgun, striking one gunman several times, police said.

The two ran off, but police said they caught up with possible suspects at Good Samaritan Hospital.

The victim has both a Dayton Firearms Owner's Identification Card and Montgomery County Concealed Carry Card, police said.

And of course, it is all but certain the criminals did not have any legal means for carrying, or perhaps even possessing, the firearms they used to attempt their robbery. One report already indicates all three suspects were juveniles, which would mean they were prohibited from even possessing guns.

When Ohio newspapers wrote their OhioCCW first anniversary stories, some attempted to make the case that claims of both pro-self-defense and anti-self-defense advocates were proven false, because while road rage shootings did not occur, neither were there many publicized instances of CHL-holders protecting themselves from attack.

While most instances of self-defense with a firearm do not involve shootings and will never make the newspaper, it stands to reason that as time passes, and as more CHLs are issued, more instances like the two this week will occur.

Let the potential armed robber beware - the next time you chose a target in Ohio, you can no longer count on her to be defenseless. This reality is what will, over time, drive more Ohio criminals to attempt property crimes instead of violent crimes against people, and is what illustrates how concealed carry laws benefit all Ohioans, not just the ones who chose to obtain CHLs.

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Columbus' NBC4i.com is reporting that Ohio State University police are searching for a man who assaulted a student in his dormitory room on Wednesday morning. Police said the student interrupted a theft in his room at about 10:50 a.m. in a W. 12th Avenue dormitory and was assaulted when the suspect fled.

The suspect is described by the news station as black, between 18 and 20 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, with a medium build. Police told NBC he was wearing a red shirt and black pants. He has very short hair or hair in braids, police said.

Why does the state of Ohio refuse to recognize the needs of college students to protect themselves? Why is the life of an 21-year-old college student on a campus like OSU's any less valuable and in need of protection than when she is off-campus? Why are 18-year-olds any less trusted with firearms on college campuses than they are when serving in our armed forces?

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(Commentary by OFCC TeamLeader John Salyers)

We have heard numerous times in the argument for publishing lists of gun-owners (CHL-holders) that criminals just are not smart enough to utilize the news media to premeditate their crimes or select their targets. The following story is also a reminder that gun control laws fail to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.

Cincinnati's WCPO.com is reporting that three masked men armed with a shotgun invaded the home of a Tri-state elderly man Friday night.

From the story:

"During the robbery, police say the suspects forced the 73-year-old victim to the floor and threatened to kill him several times.

It happened at a home on Aries Court in Colerain Township on Friday night.

The elderly victim told 9News the suspects got away with more than $2,000 in cash and and several guns.

He says, even worse, they took away his sense of peace in which every person has a right to feel in their home, and its something he's not sure he'll ever get back.

It was just before 11 p.m. Friday night when the man, who asked we protect his identity, heard a knock at his front door.

"I opened the door, three guys walked in with doo-rags on and faces covered and a sawed off 12-gauge sawed off shot gun on me," he said.

The grandfather and Korean war veteran says the armed suspect forced him to the floor as the other two ransacked his home. He says they kept repeating the same question:

"They kept asking me where the money is. Where's your money at? One guy kept coming out putting the gun against my head saying he was going to blow my brains out and they just proceeded to destroy my home," the victim told 9News.

"The guy even took a swing at me with the gun and missed and then he hit the TV," he added.

After twenty minutes, the suspects fled the home. Police say they're
described as three male blacks in their late teens or early twenties but
they don't have much else to go on.

Police told WCPO they think because the suspects kept asking "where's the money at" that this elderly victim may have been targeted.

We may never know for sure if this man was specifically targeted for his guns. What we do know, however, is that criminals do indeed possess the intelligence to do a little research and select their targets accordingly. This is yet another example of why publishing lists of gun-owners (CHL-holders) is a terrible idea.