By Gerard Valentino

As it becomes clear to the anti-gun minority that the District of Columbia v. Heller case will ultimately be decided in the favor of the Second Amendment as an individual right to bear arms, they are becoming increasingly hysterical.

It is already clear their talking points are based on convincing people that “over 70 years of legal precedent” needs to be overturned to find in favor of an individual right. As if saying over and over again that the Second Amendment as long since been held to be a collective right will change the inevitable or cast doubt on what appears to be a perfect storm for the pro-gun movement.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune's Heather Martens recently wrote that it is “simply safer to regulate guns.” Martens, in typical elitist media fashion, falls for all of the old anti-gun arguments that have long been discredited.

Are you getting tired of seeing only "no gun" signs around Ohio? They do nothing but create victim zones and tell criminals, "Hey, come on in! Everyone here is totally helpless!"

Really bright, huh?

Well, now there's an alternative sign created by one of our volunteers. This pro-CCW sign tells criminals that maybe they should move on. And it informs anyone entering the building that it's a much safer place to do business.

This is a PDF that you can download and print. (If you can't open a PDF, download Adobe Reader free.) Ask CCW-friendly businesses to post this sign near the entrances in plain sight.

For best results, print this sign in COLOR. The high resolution version will print better, but it's a large file (over 1MB). If you have a slow Internet connection, download the smaller file.

Download high-resolution pro-CCW sign
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Feel free to post a link to this story or bookmark it at your favorite social site such as Digg or StumbleUpon. We'd love to see thousands of these signs all over Ohio. So get the word out.

March 19, 2008
National Public Radio

After deadly shootings at schools in Illinois and Virginia, 12 states are considering legislation to allow guns on college campuses. Stephen Feltoon, a director for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC), is part of a movement that says college students should have the same gun ownership rights as others.

Feltoon says he purchased his first gun for recreation. "Now I own it for defense," he says. "I can take a firearm anywhere that's not a college campus, a liquor establishment, or any business that posts a 'no gun' sign. When am I carrying it? That's the beauty of conceal and carry. You'll never know until I need it."

He says SCCC started a day after the Virginia Tech shootings and that when he first learned of the group, he signed on immediately. "I believed that my right to self-defense was being infringed on college campuses," he says. "College campuses are vulnerable and I didn't want to be defenseless."

Feltoon says Virginia Tech is home to the SCCC's largest group of conceal and carry advocates. As for the SCCC's total enrollment, Feltoon says it has doubled in the last month, bringing the total to 22,000 members just one year after its founding.

"The Illinois shooting made people realize college campuses aren't as safe as administrators would have them believe," Feltoon says, explaining the recent jump in members.

Click here for the entire NPR story, and for a link to a 7 minute 44 second audio report.

By Jack Kiser

It's an increasingly rare event in our culture for a hunter or fisherman to experience or even see cultural images or reminders at all beneficial or in any way even inferring even a hint of positivity towards the American outdoors tradition.

The precipitous decline in sales nationwide of hunting and fishing licenses continues to fuel and propel the politically correct cultural armies of the popular media and public school systems that continue to regularly batter and tarnish the images of our outdoors hunting and fishing traditions.

Those who still cling to viewing such acknowledgments as ridiculous, a fabrication of a fading culture or the whining of the last of the gun owners, can quickly have their faux bewilderment skewered with one question:

When is the last time you remember an outdoorsman -- let's say a hunter portrayed in any TV sitcom, drama or documentary -- as anything other than a foaming-at-the-mouth idiot or a dangerous, lurking menace to anyone or anything around him?

By Gerard Valentino

If journalists and police spokespeople describe a home invasion "gone wrong" as one in which the victim is murdered, I would suggest that the following is an example of a home invasion gone right.

WCMC.com from New Jersey is reporting that two home invaders were shot and killed by an armed homeowner.

They're Still Coming For Your Guns

By Brian S. Stewart

I recently wrote on Washington D.C.'s "Gun Recovery Unit", a group of officers tasked with hunting down guns in D.C. neighborhoods. Due to the D.C. gun ban, gun ownership in the city is illegal, and the police use traffic stops as an excuse to commit gun searches. That's if they aren't knocking the door down with a search warrant.

Now Mayor Adrian Fenty and the D.C. Chief of Police have rolled out a new anti-gun initiative: Blanket, house-to-house searches and an amnesty program.

By Gerard Valentino

A few days ago, another American did what the establishment media and so-called security experts recommend by calling 911 as someone was breaking into her home. Just as recommended, she stayed on the line while waiting for the cavalry to arrive.

And unfortunately, yet again, an honest person died while waiting for the police to come and save her.

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 a 13 year old kid being shot to a woman being murdered WHILE calling 911, these articles should be a part of your required reading!

What follows is several days of headlines accompanied by short, concise pro-gun analysis.

Editor's Note: The following column by Buckeye Firearms Association Leader Larry S. Moore, was published in response to guest column published in the Xenia Gazette on March 12, entitled "The Second Amendment, guns and death". The author of that anti-gun piece, attorney Jack LeMoult, once wrote that "most men are emotionally frail aggregations of self-doubt and vulnerability. The possession of a gun is like a tonic, adding an exhilarating sense of power to a sagging ego."

By Larry S. Moore

Mr. LeMoult puts forth several points in his recent "Ideas" column titled "The Second Amendment, guns and death.” This is not fresh thinking or new ideas on the part of the author. It is a rather tired summarization of many years of liberal thinking regarding the Second Amendment.

There are two views of the meaning of the Second Amendment. One is generally termed the collective view, which is the one put forth in the piece. The militia clause is the part of the amendment on which this view concentrates. The militia was every able bodied free man. That is not the same as the standing state National Guard units of today.

By Gerard Valentino

For years, pro-gun advocates have rightfully pointed out that several key groups are a serious threat to our gun rights. Most are avowed anti-gun organizations or have some other emotion based argument for wanting to confiscate the guns of law-abiding citizens. But, a bigger and more dangerous threat continues to put our firearms rights in jeopardy – employers.