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JUSTICE SERVED: Second accomplice in murder of gun store owner gets 27 years

12:52pm Sunday, January 16, 2005

The January 11, 2005 Columbus Dispatch reported that a second accomplice in the robbery and murder of gun store owner and OFCC supporter Zane Wilson has been given the maximum sentence allowable for his crime. The story says that upon learning that Clifford Morefield told a probation officer that he "didn’t deserve the time," the judge "saw red". Common Pleas Judge Beverly Y. Pfeiffer, dismayed...

At least, this time, the media asked ''Can restraining orders really protect?"

10:26am Sunday, January 16, 2005

January 14, 2005 Huntington (WV) Herald Dispatch HUNTINGTON -- Can restraining orders really protect you? The question takes on tragic relevance in the wake of the shooting of a Ceredo woman Wednesday. The man sought in her death had reportedly violated such an order by showing up at her home the night before. Cabell County Magistrate Michael J. Woelfel begins his answer by defining some terms...

Gun ban lobby's own web poll shows support for CCW

10:17am Sunday, January 16, 2005

This probably wasn't what they were hoping for. A group of gun ban extremists by the name of "Women Against Gun Violence" have posted a web poll asking visitors "Should civilians be allowed to carry concealed weapons?" The website promotes its guiding principles to be: We have the right to be free from gun violence in our homes, streets, schools, places of work and communities. The presence and...

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THREE ''no-guns'' banks, and a customer in another, robbed around Ohio this week

8:14pm Friday, January 14, 2005

It's been yet another dangerous week for customers of "no-guns" banks in Ohio. Just days after a Columbus police officer was killed in a Fifth Third bank in that city, two more Fifth Third branches were robbed. And as the first report reveals, the long list of robberies in these unsafe businesses is likely much longer, but are not always reported in the newspapers. · Cleveland Fifth Third Robbery...

VICTIM ZONE: Police seek pair who robbed elderly man

7:02pm Friday, January 14, 2005

The Akron Beacon Journal is reporting that Akron police are searching for two men who abducted an elderly man at gunpoint from the parking lot of a "no-guns" business, robbed him and forced him to drive them to Canton on Wednesday. According to the story, the men approached the man from behind around 6 p.m. in the parking lot of the Acme grocery at 2905 Whipple Ave. The newspaper says they...

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Kent State Univ. ''Treats Second Amendment Club Like Second-Class Citizens''

6:52pm Friday, January 14, 2005

By Randy Hall CNSNews.com Editor January 14, 2005 (CNSNews.com) - Administrators at Kent State University in Ohio have refused to recognize a Second Amendment club as an official student group, a conservative organization claimed Friday. Students organized the group with the assistance of the Leadership Institute's Campus Leadership Program, which helps start and maintain conservative groups at...

Op-Ed: Why Liberals Love Gun Control

6:37pm Friday, January 14, 2005

By Justin Darr MichNews.com Jan 11, 2005 If there is one thing liberals love more than banning Christianity from public schools it is creating ineffective gun control laws. Despite centuries of evidence that gun control laws do not lower crime, stop violence, or make society safer in any way, liberals keep plugging away at our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. I am not going to weary...

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Suspect sought in roadside rape attempt

6:29pm Friday, January 14, 2005

The Dayton Daily News is reporting that Warren County authorities are asking the public for help in finding a man who attempted to rape an 18-year-old woman whose car broke down on Ohio 48, just south of Lebanon. The newspaper reports the county resident dialed 911 at 10:48 a.m. Tuesday to report fighting off a man who pulled next to her car in a white Dodge pickup. Investigators told the DDN the...