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Dispatch: Few conceal-carry permits revoked, records show

Submitted by cbaus on Mon, 08/14/2006 - 13:12.

Ohio's establishment media is finally getting around to reporting on stats for first quarter 2006 concealed handgun license issuance, news which was published on this website back in May.

The Columbus Dispatch reported Sunday that, two years after Ohio sheriffs began issuing licenses allowing residents to carry concealed guns, VERY few of those licenses have been suspended or revoked.

Robert Cornwell, executive director of the Buckeye State Sheriffs’ Association, is quoted as saying "those with the concealed-carry licenses have been good, law-abiding citizens. The worst-case scenarios that were put out there about the gunfight at the OK Corral didn’t come to fruition."

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National interest in a “Victim Bill of Rights”

Submitted by jirvine on Mon, 08/14/2006 - 00:05.

By Jim Irvine
The past week has seen a nationwide flurry of interest in “Castle Doctrine” or “Stand your Ground” or “Victim Bill of Rights” legislation. No matter the name, it does the same three things:

  • If someone breaks into your home, you may respond with deadly force.
  • If you are outside your home, but are there legally, you do not need to retreat before deadly force.
  • If forced to use deadly force, you can’t be prosecuted or sued for the actions you took to defend your life.

    This has been basic understanding of “right and wrong” for centuries. Good people understand there are bad people, and think it’s best when the good people defeat the bad people who criminally violate the good people.

    No one has passed laws to say that you now gave up rights when a violent criminal breaks into your home, or that you are not permitted to defend yourself when threatened by rape or death, or that victims are now responsible for the injuries criminals sustain while attacking them.

    Enter Activist judges. These are people who don’t understand their own job. Instead of applying the law, they make it. They force their personal views on society in a travesty of justice. It is fitting that they wear a black robe – they represent evil.

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