By Gerard Valentino

Every vocal pro-gun advocate is familiar with the condescending look of so-called friends or family members who are sure we're nothing but bloodthirsty members of the NRA cult. We've all been there when someone belittles our judgment by asking, "I hope you have those guns locked up so your kids won’t get them" or "aren’t you afraid you will shoot a family member by accident?" And then there's my favorite silly anti-gun statement, "you know, someone who keeps a gun in the house is 75% more likely to kill a friend of family member than an intruder."

Personally, I have a family member that is a self-described intellectual and, based on the desire to feed his feelings of superiority, he looks down his nose at anyone who carries a gun for self-defense.

A common answer when asked, "why do you keep a gun in the house with those kids," is to simply answer, "I have it because I love my children and value their life." (Jim Irvine, Buckeye Firearms Association’s Chairman delivers the line better than anyone I’ve met, with equal parts sarcasm and scorn. His delivery is a joy to behold.)

Usually, that is followed by a nod as if the person asking the question understood my answer, and then a puzzled furrowing of their eyebrows.

by Angry Mouse

Liberals love the Constitution.

Ask anyone on the street. They'll tell you the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a liberal organization.

I know liberal couples who give each other pocket size copies of the Constitution for Christmas.

Ask liberals to list their top five complaints about the Bush Administration, and they will invariably say the words "shredding" and "Constitution" in the same sentence. They might also add "Fourth Amendment" and "due process." It's possible they'll talk about "free speech zones" and "habeus corpus."

There's a good chance they will mention, probably in combination with several FCC-prohibited adjectives, the former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

So.

Liberals love the Constitution. They especially love the Bill of Rights. They love all the Amendments.

Except for one: the Second Amendment.

By Chad D. Baus

During oral arguments last month on a case challenging the City of Clyde's ban on concealed carry in its public parks, Republican Paul Pfeifer proved himself dangerously out of touch.

Pfeifer remarked that he just couldn't understand why someone would want to lug a gun around in a park, especially in the summer when it would be harder to conceal. He mocked persons who would chose to exercise their Constitutional right to bear arms for self-defense, evoking an image of a jogger strapping a gun to his jogging shorts. He ignorantly suggested that pedophiles are a greater danger in city parks, drawing laughter when he suggested a bullwhip might be a more appropriate weapon.

Last week, Fernando Gonzalez had just finished a jog with his dog in the Swan Creek Metropark when he was stabbed in the face by a violent, cold-blooded criminal.

By Chad D. Baus

Gun ban extremists and others who oppose the right of self defense are fond of saying that when a person is in danger, the best thing to do is to call 911 and let the police take care of it.

But what happens when you dial 911 and the police tell you to wait...and wait...and wait?

One Columbus-area business owner was wise enough to have made his own plans for that very eventuality...

Taken from the most recent “Page Nine” Alan Korwin’s “The Uninvited Ombudsman Report”

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Nearly half of the more than 100,000 concealed handgun licensees (CHLs) in Ohio are up for renewal in 2008, and questions on the renewal process or reports about renewal applicants' experiences in various counties continue to come in to Buckeye Firearms Association.

One of the more frequently asked questions deals with whether or not a person can carry on their license during the 30-day grace period that is provided for a person to apply for a renewal even after the expiration date on the license.

Some reports have come in of sheriffs saying that a person can carry, others have had their sheriff say that they may not.

A year ago, we came up with the idea of printing wallet cards with basic CCW rules and giving them to instructors around Ohio.

We expected this to be a simple way to help instructors add value to their classes, educate CCW students, and introduce citizens to Buckeye Firearms Association. What we didn't expect was the overwhelming response to this idea.

The program launched with little fanfare on March 13, 2007. On Day 1, we received 22 requests totaling 2,750 cards. Our first batch of cards disappeared within a few days. We had to reduce the number of cards we offered to each instructor just to allow us to maintain an inventory.

Since then, the requests have been pouring in. Over the last 12 months, we have received 358 requests for a total of 47,000 cards. If you count the additional cards we've handed out at gun shows and events, the total climbs to 55,000.

The program has been so successful, The Second Amendment Foundation wants to take the program national so that every state allowing concealed carry would have their own version of this card.

Why is all this so important? Because each card acts as a little advertisement for Buckeye Firearms Association and the powerful pro-gun movement here in Ohio. They are printed on heavy, glossy paper so they'll last for years in a wallet or purse. That means there are 55,000 ads floating around Ohio with more going out every day.

By Gerard Valentino

To hear the left scoff at the premise that an armed society is a polite society, you would think Americans are uncivilized barbarians just waiting for a chance to shoot each other. Such a backwards thought process isn’t limited to gun control, their distrust of average Americans is rampant in the left’s pantheon of ridiculous beliefs.

Their duplicitous ways are exposed most readily when it comes to guns since they claim to champion the poor and then disarm them in the face of common criminals, and they claim to champion individual freedom except for when it comes to self-defense involving guns. Finally, their absurd notion that if everyone has to carry a gun then it proves society is unsafe flies in the face of common sense. As more people are allowed to carry concealed guns the crime rate and accidental gun death rate still continue to fall.

Are you getting tired of seeing only "no gun" signs around Ohio? They do nothing but create victim zones and tell criminals, "Hey, come on in! Everyone here is totally helpless!"

Really bright, huh?

Well, now there's an alternative sign created by one of our volunteers. This pro-CCW sign tells criminals that maybe they should move on. And it informs anyone entering the building that it's a much safer place to do business.

This is a PDF that you can download and print. (If you can't open a PDF, download Adobe Reader free.) Ask CCW-friendly businesses to post this sign near the entrances in plain sight.

For best results, print this sign in COLOR. The high resolution version will print better, but it's a large file (over 1MB). If you have a slow Internet connection, download the smaller file.

Download high-resolution pro-CCW sign
Download low-resolution pro-CCW sign

Feel free to post a link to this story or bookmark it at your favorite social site such as Digg or StumbleUpon. We'd love to see thousands of these signs all over Ohio. So get the word out.