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Responder Zero

12:10am Wednesday, April 25, 2007

By Clint Lake In the world of infectious diseases there is a term called ‘Patient Zero’. This is essentially the first person to start the epidemic spreading to numerous points unknown. The Center For Disease Control has the job of backtracking from the most recent recipient of the disease all the way back to ‘Patient Zero’ in order to determine how the bug transported from person to person and...

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Ohio CHL-holder protects self with gun; lazy media buys lie that it's a "first"

by Jim Irvine and Chad D. Baus

1:10pm Tuesday, April 24, 2007

The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that another innocent life has been protected thanks to Ohio's concealed handgun license law. From the story: Damon Wells is the man gun supporters were imagining when they fought for the right to carry concealed weapons. He had a permit to carry his gun, and he had the gun on him when a pair of teenage thieves approached him Saturday night on his front...

Cleveland homicides - criminals killing criminals

12:05am Tuesday, April 24, 2007

By Alex Payton A recent article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that most homicide victims in Cleveland are criminals. From the article: Most of the victims of homicide in Cleveland look a lot like their killers. They are criminals being killed by other criminals. The incidents almost always involve black men killing a man of the same race. The deadliest areas are those stricken with...

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VT massacre: OH Gov. says state gun laws sound; Sheriff calls for armed teachers

12:10am Monday, April 23, 2007

The Dayton Daily News is reporting that while Governor Ted Strickland (D) believes dangerous mentally disturbed people should not have access to guns, he does not believe the Virginia Tech case means Ohio's gun [control] laws need strengthened. Gov. Strickland, who was a practicing psychologist prior to being elected to Congress in 1992, says the massacre raises troubling questions about how...

The most neglected part of self-defense training

12:10am Monday, April 23, 2007

By Ken Hanson Most self-defense advocates take training very seriously. We cover mindset, awareness, equipment, ammunition and scenarios in most any training. However, there is one component of concealed carry training that is completely ignored by most schools. This is unfortunate, as this one component is the one that is statistically most likely to result in the arrest of a concealed carry...

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Northwest Ohio newspaper shows up Pulitzer-winning Plain Dealer on gun coverage

12:05am Monday, April 23, 2007

Defiance Crescent gets facts by looking past unreliable Brady Campaign anti-gun propaganda By Chad D. Baus On Wednesday, April 18, the Cleveland Plain Dealer published an article entitled “In Ohio its really easy to buy a gun.” It was immediately apparent that the writer, Plain Dealer reporter Terry Oblander, relied on incorrect information from the Brady Campaign. (I highly encourage readers to...

Op-Ed: Signs of Intelligence?

12:10am Saturday, April 21, 2007

By Fred Thompson ABC Radio One of the things that's got to be going through a lot of peoples' minds now is how one man with two handguns, that he had to reload time and time again, could go from classroom to classroom on the Virginia Tech campus without being stopped. Much of the answer can be found in policies put in place by the university itself. Virginia, like 39 other states, allows citizens...

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D.C. Gun Ban Update: Mayor Fenty petitions for en banc hearing

12:05am Saturday, April 21, 2007

By Tim Inwood "The District of Columbia and Mayor Adrian Fenty respectfully petition this Court for rehearing en banc " With these words the Mayor of Washington D.C. launches his challenge to the D.C. Circuit Court's ruling in Parker vs. Washington D.C. , made on March 9,2007. For those of us who have fought hard to restore our Second Amendment rights, the Parker ruling was a stunning victory...