June 7, 2005
Columbus Dispatch

The May 24 Dispatch article "Missing daddy" was extremely powerful, especially to me. If it weren’t for my father-in-law having a Tennessee permit to carry a concealed handgun, an article in Nashville back in 2000 might have been headlined, "Missing papa," the name my kids have for their grandfather.

After shooting another driver in the face after she gave him her purse, an armed criminal approached Papa’s small pickup with a gun during a traffic jam. Fortunately for us, Papa was armed. He disarmed the criminal without having to fire a shot and held him at gunpoint for 30 minutes until the police arrived.

As it turns out, the criminal was already wanted for another murder and was carrying a stolen gun. Papa got $1,000 from CrimeStoppers, but that didn’t stop the nightmares and fear of retaliation from the gangbanger’s friends or family.

My father-in-law’s experience is what prompted me to realize that, had I been in that situation, I would have been unable to defend myself or my family. So I learned to shoot. I obtained a license to carry my firearm with me. And when I moved home to Ohio, I went looking for an organization that was trying to help ensure that Ohioans didn’t have to be caught defenseless in such a situation. I joined Ohioans For Concealed Carry (www.ohioccw.org).

In 2004, the General Assembly finally voted for legislation that ensures no qualified Ohioan should have to be defenseless. More than 52,000 people already have taken the necessary steps to ensure that if they are put in a similar situation as Papa or Daddy, they will have a fighting chance.

Thanks for this excellent article. Danielle Schmalenberger and her children will be in my prayers.

Chad D. Baus
Archbold

Today, June 7, 2005, will be my final day posting daily news stories to this website. I have found it necessary to take on a reduced volunteer role at OFCC, and plan to spend more of my time on family, firearms and self-defense instruction and my family business. I do hope to contribute a story now and again, when something piques my interest and when time allows.

Many thanks to those of you who have sent in news stories, helped investigate local reports, and provided encouragement to me over the past several years. You are what makes grassroots efforts to protect our self-defense rights so successful.

Although daily news stories may not be posted to www.ofccpac.org until campaigns for 2006 elections come into full swing, please check back regularly for campaign-related updates, and sign up for the OFCC PAC Alert so that you will receive urgent campaign-related news in your Inbox.

The volunteers at OFCC PAC will continue to make preparations for the 2006 campaign season, and we would appreciate your continued support through donations, which are used to educate voters about pro-self-defense candidates.

I will continue to be available at cbaus@ofccpac.org.

Chad D. Baus

The preceeding message was posted at ofccpac.org, and mirrored at ohioccw.org, as were more than 2500 stories, op-eds, and news commentaries written by me between 2002 and 2005. At the time, plans for renaming and refocusing the OFCC PAC as Buckeye Firearms Association did not exist. - Chad D. Baus - 2006

Commentary by John Salyers

The Sandusky Register ran a story recently on what it takes to survive a stalker. Unfortunately they left out the one best defenses that law-abiding
Ohioans now have as an option. That is the right to obtain a license and carry a concealed handgun for self defense.

While stalking cases may not make the news and be as high profile for everyday citizens as other crimes. There are cases like these happening to average people quite often throughout the country.

From the story:

Columbus' NBC41.com is reporting on yet another violent encounter inside a "no-guns" United Dairy Farmers location in Ohio. And this time, the incident was caught on camera.

From the story:

Shortly after 12:30 a.m., police said Kaya Horn and Bradley Treneff were ordering ice cream inside United Dairy Farmers, located at 530 S. Hague Ave.

Police said that when Horn opened her wallet to pay for her order, a man attacked her by knocking her to the floor and attempted to steal her wallet.

Treneff then came to Horn's aid and knocked the suspect off her, police said.

The two men then became involved in a fight inside the store, causing displays to be knocked over. Police said Treneff suffered a broken hand from punching the suspect, who then ran away from the store.

Police said the would-be-robber was a white man in his 30s, around 5 feet 9 inches or 5 feet 10 inches tall with a heavy build. He was bald and had a goatee, and was wearing a white T-shirt and gray shorts.

The suspect may have visible injuries to his face and head, according to police.

Click here to view still images from the latest UDF attack.

Is United Dairy Farmers Director of Security John W. Osborne still under the delusion that “no-guns” signs can keep UDF patrons and employees safe? Can his boss still have confidence in Osborne after all the evidence to the contrary?

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

The Toledo Blade is reporting that a would-be purse snatcher thought he had an easy mark: a frail-looking elderly woman. But Saturday afternoon, says the Blade, "when the thief approached 91-year-old Katherine Woodworth in a West Toledo parking lot and demanded her purse, he got more than he bargained for. He got a whuppin' instead."

From the story:

Angered by the thought of being robbed, Ms. Woodworth, a tiny woman with gray hair and glasses, who normally wears a hearing aid, turned her purse into a weapon and repeatedly struck the man until he fled.

"He just made me mad," Ms. Woodworth said. "I wasn't really thinking, I just hit him."

Ms. Woodworth said yesterday she didn't feel like she did anything special in fending off her attacker in the Kmart parking lot on West Alexis Road.

She said she arrived at the store about 3:45 p.m. to pick up some items when a man walked up to her and announced he was taking her purse.

"I didn't have my hearing aid in and I thought he said that he was going to take my pulse," Ms. Woodworth said with laugh.

In an incident that recalls memories of the carjacking murder of Tony Gordon in 2003, the Dayton Daily News is reporting that two men shot the owner of a tricked-up late-model GMC Yukon during an attempted carjacking outside of a state-mandated victim zone on West Third Street early Saturday.

From the story:

The victim, shot twice, was in extremely critical condition following emergency surgery at Miami Valley Hospital, police said.

The incident occurred outside the VFW Post at 3200 W. Third St. shortly after midnight.

Dayton police said two men in their 30s were leaving the post when two men armed with high-caliber handguns ordered them into the SUV at gunpoint. The gunmen robbed the owner of a diamond ring, cash, and the car keys, then shot the driver twice in the upper body.

A passing police cruiser heard the shots and called backup to the scene. The gunmen noticed the cruiser and ran off, allowing the second victim to escape without injury.

Police teams tracked the suspects into a field, where they arrested two men, aged 37 and 40, and a .45- caliber handgun.

Both men were held at the Montgomery County Jail pending charges.

According to WHIOTV.com, authorities say they believe the men are career criminals from the state of Georgia, and that they believe the men may be responsible for a series of robberies. Ohio law currently bans bearing arms for self-defense in places where alcohol is served with a Class D license, such as this VFW Post. There is no reason to doubt that career criminals such as these are smart enough to figure out where easy (defenseless) marks can be found.

In August 2003, James A. "Tony" Gordon was carjacked by criminals who wanted the expensive custom wheels off of his 1987 Ford Thunderbird, which he had been laboring to restore. In the wake of his death, the Gordon family marched in several open carry "Defense Walks", including a walk in the hometown of Senate President Doug White, who was at the time acting as an obstructionist to House Bill 12. The Gordons also participated in a Walk outside the Governor's Mansion in Bexley. Tony Gordon's murderers have still not been apprehended.