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Cleveland NAACP Pres.: Don't blame CHL-holder for protecting himself
Submitted by cbaus on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 23:15.Cleveland's News Channel 5 is reporting that the Cleveland NAACP responded Friday to criticism
surrounding the shooting death of a teenage boy during a robbery, and for once this organization is placing the blame where it belongs - on the criminal.
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Plain Dealer: Gun advocates say assaults are thwarted, but not reported
Submitted by cbaus on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 23:10.In the fallout from an erroneous Cleveland Plain Dealer story claiming that the death of an armed robber at the hand of the concealed handgun licenseholder he attacked was "what appears to be the first time", Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter Michael O'Malley spent time late last week discussing the facts with Buckeye Firearms Association's Chairman and Vice Chairman.
He published a follow-up story Sunday.
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Letters to Plain Dealer editor continue to pour in
Submitted by cbaus on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 23:05.Last week, Plain Dealer columnist Regina Brett wrote that she had received more than 400 letters in response to a column defending a concealed handgun license-holder who was forced to shoot a 15 year-old armed robber.
The Plain Dealer published a few of those letters along with Brett's column. Two days later, on Sunday, April 29, many more letters on the subject were published. While Brett's ratio was approximately 20 to 1 in favor on gun rights and armed self-defense, the ratio of letters the newspaper chose to publish? A nice, neat, 50-50 split...
Click 'Read More' to read the letters, headlined in the Plain Dealer as 'A friendly exchange over guns, self-defense'.
