By Chris Chumita

David Blaine is a master illusionist. When he performs his amazing street magic, he makes you believe in the unbelievable. He spins his illusions so well that you don't see that they are really just cheap parlor tricks.

In a way, the gun-grabbers are also illusionists. Unfortunately, their illusions often lead to the loss of innocent life, instead of astonishing you. Their illusion is a simple one. They trick people into believing that strict gun control laws will make everyone safer. In essence, they create an illusion of safety.

A good example of this are the so-called "gun free zones." Examples of such are schools, post offices, and highway rest stops. The gun-grabbers manage to trick people into believing that simply posting a sign or passing a law that bans guns in certain places will prevent violent crime. They spin their illusion so well that some people actually believe that a "No Guns" sign will prevent a homicidal maniac from turning a "gun free zone" into a war zone.

Unfortunately, their illusion of safety is exposed at the cost of innocent life. That is why gun rights/self-defense advocates refer to "gun free zones" as "victim zones" or "criminal protection zones." These zones do NOT offer any real safety to the innocent, becasue criminals do NOT obey the law or gun bans. The only person who benefits from the "safety" provided by these zones is the criminal. They ensure that the criminal can rape, rob, and murder, without worrying about a victim fighting back with a firearm.

The typical BuckeyeFirearms.org's "Pro-Gun Punditry: Buckeye State Roundabout" notes that there are many more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio than we could draw attention to with individual daily commentary, but that they are all worthy of mention.

This past week, the same can be said for commentary on the Virginia Tech massacre.

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By Chad D. Baus

I hope none of the Cleveland Plain Dealer readers who opened their newspapers today had a serious heart condition, because it must have been quite a shock.

The newspaper has published not one, but TWO, op-eds by Plain Dealer columnists defending CHL-holder Damon Wells taking action to defend himself against an armed teenaged thug.

The first column, written by Plain Dealer columnist Kevin O'Brien, is entitled "The legal gun won this fight".

Mr. O'Brien's thoughful op-ed begins like this:

Arthur Buford is dead, and that's a sad thing.

Arthur had his whole life ahead of him. He was just a kid, after all - a 15-year-old freshman at John F. Kennedy High School.

What he didn't know, as he approached Damon Wells' house in southeast Cleveland on Saturday night, was that his whole life consisted of just a few more seconds.

Arthur had a gun, which he and another youngster apparently thought would give them the power to take something from Wells, who was standing on the front porch.