Musings from a ''red-neck idiot''...

By Chad D. Baus

"Anonymous" doesn't like me very much...

Or is it the truth s/he don't like?

Date: 16 Dec 2004 00:51:00 -0000
Subject: Lets make Ohio look more stupid!!!!

To Chad Baus:

First of all using this senseless crime for your personal soapbox is
disgusting!!!!

Second of all : Let''s look at this brilliant statement...let 250-300 people
"pack heat" in a bar...wtf????

Then the headline could have read: 200 Dead at the Alrosa Villa.

Your laws and your dumbass stance isn''t going to better the situation only make
it worse. Then to post this to a media outlet that the world reads, thats great,
Ohio already has a very big blackeye over this and now you put some bone-headed
comment out there like this, I''m embarrassed to reside in the same state as
people like you and Nathan Gale....pretty soon we will all look like red-neck
idiots that live in Ohio.

Way to go!!!!!

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Anonymous

The map at right indicates (in red) states which "Anonymous" may chose to move to, since s/he is too embarrassed to live in Ohio. These are the only states left that do not have some form of legal mechanism for citizens to bear arms for self-defense. S/he should probably hurry, because at least three of them, having seen the success of these laws across the country, are actively considering passage of similar laws in their own states.

Most of the rest of "Anonymous'" bigoted, hateful, rage-filled letter is not worth responding to, save for a statement s/he quoted, which was attributed to me in the Cleveland Scene today:

"If each of the 250 people rocking Alrosa Villa had been packing heat that night, reasons OFCC spokesman Baus, one of them could have blown away the perp. Or at least sparked a very impressive imitation of a Fallujah firefight."

The author of this piece, Mr. Erich Burnett ([email protected]), knows quite well that nothing like this was said during our lengthy conversation on Friday.

On the other hand, a great deal was said about the fact that 90% of multiple victim public shootings happen where guns are banned, and about how many other states allow CHL-holders to carry in places where liquor is served (without problems!).

Burnett must have missed that part (too focused on making up some of the short bit he did publish?). To his credit, he got this quote right:

"Nobody's trying to say we know for sure what would have happened if a [concealed-carry] license-holder had been there, but we are saying that people deserve the right to defend themselves no matter where they are."

On Monday, Burnett was emailed information that supported the suggestion that a single CHL-holder could indeed have made a difference in this tragedy. Of course, he failed to mention this too. Probably short on a deadline, right?

But never fear, there is always the next issue. So will Erich Burnett have the guts to cover the rest of the story?

Will he interview Roger, the Gulf War veteran and CHL-holder, or his wife (also
a CHL-holder), who stood just five feet away from Gale when he pulled his gun
and began shooting?

Will he try and tell Roger and his wife they were better off to stand there and
watch people die?

OFCC PAC Education Guide:
Raging Against Self Defense - A Psychiatrist Examines The Anti-Gun Mentality