By Chad D. Baus

It's all too familiar a story:

A 12-year-old boy was critically injured Tuesday night after he was shot in the chest by a gun that was found in the street.

Police said the boy and a 10-year-old friend found the loaded weapon in an alley behind the 300 block of South Napoleon Avenue on the city's east side.

"One child, the 10-year-old, was shot in the hand," said Columbus police Sgt. Christ Holzhauser. "He stated he found the weapon and was touching it and the weapon went off and the second kid received the shot in the chest."

...Police said the weapon was a .22 caliber pistol.

Authorities were hoping neighbors would help them determine who owned the weapon. Police indicated they think someone in the neighborhood may have tossed the gun in the alley.

This most recent occurrence in Ohio was on June 6, 2007, but when it happened I immediately thought back to a strikingly similar incident from July 1, 2004 in Dayton.

From a story originally published in the Dayton Daily News:

A 7-year-old boy was accidentally shot Wednesday by his 5-year-old neighbor who was playing with a loaded .22 revolver the older boy found in an alley, police said.

A recent story in the Xenia Gazette, entitled "Ohio fifth on list of states with most drive-by shootings", was a perfect example of how the vehemently anti-self-defense Violence Policy Center dupes unsuspecting media/news reporters, as well as how lazy journalists irresponsibly run press releases to fill space, as opposed to analyzing the content and understanding the missing/misleading info.

Buckeye Firearms Association's Larry Moore submitted to the editor of the Xenia Gazette in response to this latest example, but the newspaper did not publish it.

We did.

Click 'Read More' for the letter to the Xenia Gazette editor.

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 an execution behind an elementary school to a burglar suing his victim, 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.