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Op-Ed: Rudy Giuliani's Narrow Reading of the Second Amendment

12:05am Monday, April 30, 2007

By Jacob Sullum Townhall.com Despite his promise to appoint "strict constructionists" to the Supreme Court if he is elected president, Rudy Giuliani recently said he has no interest in overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that discovered a previously unnoticed constitutional right to abortion. Offending social conservatives (and strict constructionists) even further, he told CNN this...

AG Dann: Handful of CHL applicants slip through mental health background checks

11:00pm Friday, April 27, 2007

By Chad D. Baus Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann (D) announced today that at least some Ohioans applying for concealed handgun licenses (CHLs) since 2004 have not been properly screened to determine if they have been found mentally incompetent by a judge, or involuntarily committed to a mental institution. Such screens are required by state law. Mr. Dann, who initiated a check of the state’s...

Plain Dealer letter-writers let 'em have it

2:00pm Friday, April 27, 2007

Readers passionate about shooting By Regina Brett April 27, 2007 Off. The. Scale. The reaction to the shooting of 15-year-old Arthur Buford has everyone up in arms. More than 400 readers told me Damon Wells had every right to shoot and kill Buford. Only 20 disagreed. Wells was not sitting on his porch when he was attacked, as I wrote Wednesday. He was returning from the store and walking across...

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Restoring the Second Amendment in Parker v. Columbia

12:15am Friday, April 27, 2007

By Alan Gura "Fear and disinformation have long been the hallmarks of the movement to end private gun ownership. Not surprisingly, the D.C. Circuit's decision in Parker v. District of Columbia , confirming that people have an individual right to keep and bear arms, has elicited outrageous predictions of doom from gun prohibitionists. The Violence Policy Center’s Josh Sugarmann neatly summed up...

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Toledo Blade editorial board member tirade: This explains everything

1:39pm Thursday, April 26, 2007

Now that Toledo Blade editorial board member Dan Simpson has written his "The disarming of America" tirade, we guess you'd call it ("rant" probably being too mild, and more accurate words being inappropriate to print), we can finally understand some of the anti-gun editorials that the Blade has spewed over the past 3-4 years. Thanks to NBC's sick attempt to lift their dismal ratings, we've all...

Plain Dealer journalistic integrity update: No new corrections, another error

10:49am Thursday, April 26, 2007

In the wake of having been notified by Buckeye Firearms Association that three news stories in the past week have contained significant errors, the Cleveland Plain Dealer has thus far refused to answer to the Indictment of Cleveland Plain Dealer - Violation of Journalist Code of Ethics . A href="http://www.cleveland.com/corrections/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/other/1177057847243560.xml&coll=2...

VT Roundabout: 26 Beautiful Stories on the VT Massacre, and Three Ugly Ones

12:05am Thursday, April 26, 2007

The typical BuckeyeFirearms.org's "Pro-Gun Punditry: Buckeye State Roundabout" notes that there are many more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio than we could draw attention to with individual daily commentary, but that they are all worthy of mention. This past week, the same can be said for commentary on the Virginia Tech massacre. Click 'Read More' for this special edition, Wednesday'...

Plain Dealer columnists defend self-defense; AP continues to report bad info

12:00pm Wednesday, April 25, 2007

By Chad D. Baus I hope none of the Cleveland Plain Dealer readers who opened their newspapers today had a serious heart condition, because it must have been quite a shock. The newspaper has published not one, but TWO, op-eds by Plain Dealer columnists defending CHL-holder Damon Wells taking action to defend himself against an armed teenaged thug. The first column, written by Plain Dealer...