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Georgia store owners refuse to be victims

2:28pm Wednesday, January 26, 2005

The Associated Press is reporting that two criminals have been permanently retired by Bobby Doster and Gloria Turner, who own Shoats Grocery & Package, where the criminals attempted a robbery. According to the story, two men walked into a popular country store outside Atlanta, and announced a holdup. After one robber fired a shot at Turner's husband (and missed), his gun jammed. Doster and...

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Letter to OFCC: Montgomery confronted at Republican meeting over anti-CCW stance

12:05pm Tuesday, January 25, 2005

From: Tim Inwood Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 7:22 AM Subject: Betty Montgomery put on the spot Here is a report from last night's Blue Chip Republicans meeting [in the Hamilton County/ Cincinnati area], which featured State Auditor and gubernatorial-hopeful Betty Montgomery. Rep. Tom Brinkman spoke earlier in the evening. Montgomery arrived about 30 minutes late from a fundraiser. She got...

Letter to the Editor: Why deny serfs' right to self-defense?

9:32am Tuesday, January 25, 2005

January 25, 2005 Toledo Blade One of the bodyguards for Michael Moore, who has made millions of dollars producing movies that call for the end of private gun ownership in America, was arrested at JFK International Airport for carrying an unlicensed handgun. Rosie O'Donnell, a spokeswoman and supporter of the notoriously anti-self defense group and horribly misnamed Million Mom March, also had a...

Walmart kidnapping/ murder suspect apprehended, thanks to armed citizen

7:29pm Monday, January 24, 2005

By Phil Shiflet The nation's cable news channels were filled late last week with reports about the kidnapping of a 19 year-old Walmart clerk as she walked to her car at the outer limits of a deserted Walmart parking lot Wednesday, January 19. The kidnapping of Megan Holden was caught on the store's video surveillance cameras (which, incidentally, did nothing to deter the kidnapper or prevent the...

Disgruntled employee didn't need CHL to threaten former boss

7:10pm Monday, January 24, 2005

The Dayton Daily News is reporting that a Square D employee who had been fired returned to work armed with a loaded .22 revolver and pointed it in the chest of his former boss on January 14. Craig Z. Buck, 54, of 5274 Stillwell-Beckett Road was enraged by his firing, which was prompted by a dispute with another employee who still works there, authorities told the newspaper. Click on the "Read...

Op-Ed: Running gun blues

6:13pm Monday, January 24, 2005

By Paul Jacob Townhall.com Jan 23, 2005 If my daughter runs off with a fellow named Clyde and starts shooting up banks, I'll know I made a terrible mistake — as my wife will no doubt remind me. Call me a "gun nut" if you must. But I'm really not one. Still, I did give my sweet, innocent 5-year-old daughter a gun for Christmas. Not just any gun, mind you. It's commonly called a "street-sweeper."...

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''Reform the reform''; Ask legislators to make OhioCCW user-friendly

11:15am Monday, January 24, 2005

The fight to restore Ohioans' right to self-defense was not an easy one. Many important provisions were left out, and many more harmful provisions were inserted, in order to get a law. Calls to "reform the reform" began almost immediately after passage of the law last year, and with nearly ten months of experience putting the new law into practice, the need for improvements to this law has been...

AP reporter takes Ohio-CHL class; not yet sure she'll carry

7:46am Monday, January 24, 2005

A story written by Associated Press writer Anita Chang has been published in news outlets across the country in the past few days. The story , which has been republished in Ohio newspapers like the Cincinnati Enquirer, Columbus Dispatch, Coshocton Tribune, Middletown News Journal (and many others across the nation), tells of a woman who has personally experienced the need for self-protection, yet...