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Unarmed Ohio campus security guards - and they'll stay that way

12:38pm Wednesday, April 18, 2007

While college campuses across the country examine their security procedures in the wake of the VT massacre, most campus security experts are stressing that while they try to plan for all contingencies, there really is no way to prevent one lone predator with a death wish from wreaking havoc on a college campus. But one Ohio college dean thinks she has the answer to a heavily armed criminal with...

Reaction to VT Massacre: Plain Dealer gets it wrong...again

12:19pm Wednesday, April 18, 2007

The Cleveland Plain Dealer is at it again. The headline warns "In Ohio, it's really easy to buy a gun" . But the 'facts' (as per usual when it comes to this newspaper's coverage of gun-related news) are worth examining. Commentary by Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson in crimson type . TRAGEDY AT VIRGINIA TECH In Ohio, it's really easy to buy a gun (It is also really easy...

FLASHBACK: VT student implores officials to allow self-defense; gets rebuffed

12:15am Wednesday, April 18, 2007

The April 16 massacre wasn't the first shooting scare at Virginia Tech this college year. Nor are emerging questions over whether or not students should be allowed to bear arms for self-defense new. In August of 2006, an escaped jail inmate shot and killed a deputy sheriff and an unarmed security guard at a nearby hospital before the police caught him in the woods near the university. On August...

One Time to Save a Life

12:05am Wednesday, April 18, 2007

By Gerard Valentino The establishment media’s immediate vilification of guns whenever a mass shooting happens means they forget that it only takes only one person with a concealed handgun license to stop a killer. They also refuse to accept that despite the leftist anti-gunners' cries to the contrary, when someone resists with a gun the death toll in these cases is much lower. Every single one of...

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Anti-gun groups once again seek to exploit tragedy

10:30am Tuesday, April 17, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 17, 2007 Gun bans disarm victims, not criminals. That is the simple lesson that anti-gun groups refuse to acknowledge as they race to dance in the blood of the Virginia Tech tragedy. Prior to April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech was an anti-gun “success story.” Tech fought, and won, a battle against a statewide measure that would have guaranteed the right of students to...

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What a difference a (Democrat) governor makes

12:10am Tuesday, April 17, 2007

By Chad D. Baus The silence is deafening. On April 12, 2007, a spokesperson for Governor Ted Strickland told the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram that the governor "opposes allowing anyone — including journalists — to review who has a [concealed handgun license]." Given their history of vocal, vehement advocacy on the issue of media access to the private, personal information of concealed handgun...

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A month of concealed carry

12:05am Tuesday, April 17, 2007

By Jim Irvine It has been one month since HB347 went into effect, eliminating the need to carry your holstered firearm in "plain sight" in a motor vehicle. That simple change still brings a smile to my face every time I get in a car. Click 'Read More' for the entire commentary. When it took until mid-December to complete the veto-override required to make HB347 law, I had concerns that we would...

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Might there be a pro-gun GOP Presidential contender after all?

12:10am Monday, April 16, 2007

Fred Thompson Gears Up By Chad D. Baus Gun owners disappointed by a bevy of Presidential front-runners in both the Democrat and Republican camps got a boost in recent weeks when former Senator Fred Thompson (R-Tenn) announced that he was considering a Presidential run. The Politico.com is reporting that the “Law & Order” actor has moved beyond pondering a bid for the White House and begun...