By Jay Ambrose

If Seung-Hui Cho hadn't gotten his hands on two semiautomatic pistols, he wouldn't have been able to slay 32 students and others, say some gun-control advocates who really ought to learn about Andrew Kehoe, who didn't stop at 32.

In the deadliest violence inside a school ever in America, Kehoe killed 45 people, mostly children, and guns had nothing to do with it. It was 1927 in the village of Bath, Mich.; Kehoe was a farmer whose mind apparently snapped because of financial ruin, and his weapons of choice were dynamite and an explosive called pyrotol.

The idea that guns are the only likely means of mass murder - one of four major misconceptions being trotted out in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech tragedy - is proven wrong daily by the suicide bombers in Iraq. It was proven wrong when Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people with an explosive mixture of fertilizer and racing fuel in Oklahoma City 12 years ago, and it was even proven wrong by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who murdered 12 fellow students and a teacher in 1999.

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Buckeye Firearm Association's web site is seeing an amazing growth in visitors and new articles are being posted several times a week.

This week's "Friday Flashback" is....

Too Much or Too Little Training

By Betty Shonts

In a recent article, I admitted that concealed carry permitholders are human beings, and allowed for the possibility that in a rare scenario one could possibly screw up by diving headfirst into a third party scenario without all the facts.

Permitholders rarely screw up. But never mind - no matter what I say, what unbiased researched facts I have in my hands, and how many news stories I can pile up of good shoots by armed citizens, we will always be baby-killing, vigilante, inbred, redneck, racist thugs to anti-gunners. Antis don't reason because they're too buried neck-deep in touchy-feely emotions, sound bites from Michael Moore and Sarah Brady, and projecting their own violent and incompenant tendencies on the rest of us. They don't trust themselves with guns and don't think they can handle a situation rationally, so they think we can't. It's called projection.

Antis say we shouldn't carry guns because we're not trained as well as police officers. The truth is the glaring majority of permitholders I know train on a regular basis, and some even go to training schools to take advanced tactical courses. On the other hand, tell an anti that many of us go to tactical training schools to participate in classes, sometimes shooting alongside military and law enforcement personnel, and they'll screaming bloody murder, something about us learning how to be killers or wannabe cops.

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By Michael J. Sullivan

During the past several weeks, numerous questions and articles have
arisen in the media, regarding the ability of the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to share firearms trace data among
members of the law-enforcement community. With the recent tragic events
surrounding the senseless criminal use of firearms; I felt the need to
clarify this important issue.

Firearms trace data is critically important information developed by ATF
to assist state and local law-enforcement in investigating and solving
violent crimes. This data tracks the transfer of a firearm from the
manufacturer to the gun's first purchaser, and can assist law
enforcement in ultimately pinpointing the individual who used the gun to
commit a particular crime.

...ATF considers this information law-enforcement-sensitive because it is
often the first investigative lead in a case. We treat it no differently
than fingerprint matches and other crime-scene information, since
disclosure outside of law enforcement can tip off criminals to the
investigation, compromise cases and endanger the lives of undercover
officers, witnesses and confidential sources.

Our agency routinely shares trace data with state and local
law-enforcement agencies in support of investigations within their
respective jurisdictions. Once a requesting agency receives
law-enforcement-sensitive trace data from ATF, it becomes the agency's
data to disseminate and share with other law-enforcement entities as it
deems appropriate.

Let me be clear: neither the congressional language nor ATF rules
prohibit the sharing of trace data with law enforcement conducting
criminal investigations, or place any restrictions on the sharing of
trace data with other jurisdictions once it is in the hands of state or
local law enforcement. In fact, multi-jurisdictional trace data is also
utilized by ATF and shared with fellow law-enforcement agencies to
identify firearm-trafficking trends and leads. Additionally, nothing
prohibits ATF from releasing our own reports that analyze trace-data
trends that could be used by law enforcement.

Click here to read the entire op-ed from the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), U.S. Department of Justice.

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