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Gun licenses safe choice

12:05am Monday, May 14, 2007

By Karl Spaulding When Florida liberalized its restrictive and disjointed system of concealed carry laws in 1987, many states followed suit. In each case, naysayers predicted everything from "blood in the streets" to "parking lot shootouts." Just as regularly, after each state changed the law to allow more law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns, the results were peacefully anticlimactic...

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Lunch wagon driver defends life when armed robbers attack

12:18pm Saturday, May 12, 2007

The Cincinnati Enquirer is reporting that a Hamilton County business man and CHL-holder was able to defend his life when attacked by two armed robbers. From the Cincinnati Enquirer: Cincinnati police Lt. Chris Matzen said two men tried to rob the driver of the lunch wagon at Millsdale Street at Curzon Avenue, just west of Anthony Wayne Avenue. During the attempted robbery, one suspect fired shots...

College professor tells OU students tragic event to change his viewpoint on guns

12:10am Friday, May 11, 2007

The Athens (OH) News reported earlier this week that, as a part of Firearms Awareness Week, the Ohio University Second Amendment Club hosted University of North Carolina Wilmington criminology professor Mike Adams as a guest speaker. Adams is a regular columnist for conservative news and opinion Web site Townhall.com. From the story: A criminology professor from North Carolina last Thursday told...

Officers volunteer to protect CHL-holder; Some politicians still don't get it

11:36am Thursday, May 10, 2007

By Chad D. Baus NewsChannel5 (ABC Cleveland) is reporting that police officers will volunteer their time to protect an Ohio CHL-holder who shot and killed an armed 15-year-old who was attempting to rob him. Since the April 21 shooting, the CHL-holder's home has been vandalized by friends of the dead robber, who already had a criminal record. Both Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Regina Brett and...

Plain Dealer LTEs: Guns in the wrongs hands - and the right ones

12:05am Thursday, May 10, 2007

The Cleveland Plain Dealer has published several letters to the editor in response to its April 29 story entitled "Gun advocates: Statistics are inadequate" and to the continued discussion over the latest Ohio CHL-holder to defend his own life when attacked. Getting to the source of delinquents' angst? I see very little difference between the young criminal who was recently killed in Mount...

American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA) tries to bully the NRA

12:10am Wednesday, May 09, 2007

By Larry S. Moore American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA) is clearly a master at the imitation game. As reported by Dave Workman in Gun Week on May 1, the organization rode into St. Louis on the coattails of the NRA Convention using the same type of deception the organization is known for in attempting to lure NRA members to their organization. The information all came to light when AHSA...

D.C. Gun Ban Update: U.S. Court of Appeals declines request to rehear case

12:05am Wednesday, May 09, 2007

NEWS RELEASE SAF SAYS D.C. CIRCUIT DENIAL ON RE-HEARING OF PARKER CASE WAS RIGHT BELLEVUE, WA – This morning’s decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to deny a petition from the District of Columbia for a hearing of Parker v. District of Columbia before the full court was “right and proper,” said Alan M. Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation. “This is a...

It's time for another Plain Dealer Pulitzer: Self-defense commentary continues

12:10am Tuesday, May 08, 2007

More to be learned from latest Regina Brett columns By Chad D. Baus In 2004, ultra-liberal Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz (wife of Sherrod Brown, the recently-elected anti-gun U.S. Senator from Ohio) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for commentary that, among other things, bashed Ohio CHL-holders as "Dirty Harry wannabe's". Schultz wrote the following commentary just days after Ohio...