By Newt Gingrich
HumanEvents.com

I was just about to speak to the Republican gathering in Ames, Iowa, Saturday when I learned something so distressing that it caused me to change the topic of my speech.

By now you have heard about the three young college students who were murdered execution-style in Newark, N.J., last week. Another student was shot in the head but survived.

What you might not have heard is that the shooter in this horrendous crime was in the country illegally.

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By Charl Van Wyck

A gunman opened fire in the sanctuary of a southwest Missouri, USA, church Sunday Aug. 12, 2007, killing a pastor and two worshippers and wounding several others.

My condolences go out to the local congregation, friends and family of the worshippers who were holding the service at the First Congregational Church.

This abominable act is not the first time that churchgoers have been attacked whilst worshipping their Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

In 2004 one of the most dreadful campaigns of mass murder was unleashed upon the Tutsi people of Rwanda. In just 100 days more people were slaughtered, many in churches, than have died from atomic weapons in all of history.

Dr. Peter Hammond's book "Holocaust in Rwanda" documents how gun control, media manipulation, liberal church leaders and the U.N. played a role in this disaster.

When I visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a missionary, I was told of rebel soldiers burying Rev. Mungomba, the pastor of a local church, alive in 2001. His congregation refused to stop praying as demanded by the rebels. Two evangelists were cut up in pieces by rebels in 1998 and 2002 respectively. It is very difficult for armed thugs to perform such tyranny if the local population were legally allowed to be armed and could defend themselves.

I, too, have lived through a church being attacked, and am blessed to be able to tell the story...

Click here to read the entire op-ed from WorldNetDaily.com.

By Chris Chumita

There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio then we can possibly draw attention to with individual daily commentary. But they are all worthy of mention.

What follows is our review of headlines from around the state though a pro-gun rights lens.

From another shooting in a church to a cocaine shortage in Cleveland, these articles should be a part of your required reading!

Click on the "Read More..." link below for several days of headlines accompanied by short, concise pro-gun analysis.