By Ken Hanson

Most self-defense advocates take training very seriously. We cover mindset, awareness, equipment, ammunition and scenarios in most any training. However, there is one component of concealed carry training that is completely ignored by most schools. This is unfortunate, as this one component is the one that is statistically most likely to result in the arrest of a concealed carry license holder.

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The Dayton Daily News is reporting that while Governor Ted Strickland (D) believes dangerous mentally disturbed people should not have access to guns, he does not believe the Virginia Tech case means Ohio's gun [control] laws need strengthened.

Gov. Strickland, who was a practicing psychologist prior to being elected to Congress in 1992, says the massacre raises troubling questions about how mental illness is addressed, telling the DDN that not everyone with mental issues is dangerous.

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Defiance Crescent gets facts by looking past unreliable Brady Campaign anti-gun propaganda

By Chad D. Baus

On Wednesday, April 18, the Cleveland Plain Dealer published an article entitled “In Ohio its really easy to buy a gun.” It was immediately apparent that the writer, Plain Dealer reporter Terry Oblander, relied on incorrect information from the Brady Campaign.

(I highly encourage readers to consult the original Plain Dealer "In Ohio, it's really easy to buy a gun" article before continuing)

After contacting the author of the story and publishing a rebuttal on this website that same day, Buckeye Firearms Association issued a press release to caution other Ohio journalists to avoid trusting the Brady bunch’s “report cards”, which are chocked with information that is just plain false in many cases, severely misleading in others.

Two days after the Plain Dealer's Brady drivel rewrite, the Defiance Crescent published a story entitled "Purchasing a gun is not that easy in Ohio", and proved that when a journalist actually bothers to investigate the facts about gun laws, a much different story will be told.

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