By Chad D. Baus

In Colorado, an armed citizen who volunteers to provide security at her church is being hailed as a "hero" after stopping a man who went on a killing spree Sunday. From CNSNews.com:

"She probably saved over 100 lives," Brady Boyd, the pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, said on Monday. The female guard, a church member dressed in plain clothes, killed the gunman after he opened fire at the mega-church. Boyd said she "rushed toward the attacker and took him down in the hallway" as he entered the building.

In Colorado, she is a hero who "probably saved over 100 lives."

In Ohio, on the other hand, if a church member with a concealed handgun license brings their firearm to church as a means of protection against such an attack, the law calls for her to be arrested and charged with a felony of the fourth degree, and a conviction would earn her up to $5000 in fines and 18 months in prison.

By Tim Inwood

Just a little over a week after my article concerning anti-gun bias at Channel 5 in Cincinnati, another abuse of the First Amendment came to my attention. This time it was not in Ohio, but Oregon.

I had been watching the case of Shirley Katz from afar, ever since I first heard Neal Boortz talk about her on his radio show. This poor woman is a public school teacher who lives in Medford, Oregon and the tale told in the press does not quite fit the truth of what has actually happened. You see, Shirley Katz has been portrayed as a woman recently divorced who fears her ex-husband. That is the tip of the iceberg.

Shirley Katz in reality is a victim of harassment from the promoters of what I have dubbed the “Culture of Sheep”. Shirley got called into the Principal’s office one day. There waiting for her was a police officer and the principal of the school who, after lowering the blinds, proceeded to grill her about if she had a concealed carry permit, as someone had reported to the school that she had one. Since this was perfectly legal, she not concerned, and she replied “yes”. Then they demanded to know “Do you have a gun? Do you bring it to school?” She said “no”. They then threatened if she had a gun in her car they would arrest her and she would be fired.