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Hunting as therapy

12:05am Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Injured soldiers find outdoors beneficial to rehabilitation By Kristi Hsu ReporterNews.com Josh Pappas, 21, looks like any other hunter in Shackelford County around this time of year. He wears a three-dimensional camouflage suit covered in waving leaf-like strips of fabric as he walks into an open field Saturday with rifle in hand to stalk deer. Pappas, a Marine corporal, suffered second- and...

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Ohio's ban on defending lives in places of worship: How did it get this bad?

12:10am Tuesday, December 11, 2007

By Chad D. Baus In Colorado, an armed citizen who volunteers to provide security at her church is being hailed as a "hero" after stopping a man who went on a killing spree Sunday. From CNSNews.com : "She probably saved over 100 lives," Brady Boyd, the pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, said on Monday. The female guard, a church member dressed in plain clothes, killed the gunman...

Media abuse of CCW License holders continues

12:05am Tuesday, December 11, 2007

By Tim Inwood Just a little over a week after my article concerning anti-gun bias at Channel 5 in Cincinnati, another abuse of the First Amendment came to my attention. This time it was not in Ohio, but Oregon. I had been watching the case of Shirley Katz from afar, ever since I first heard Neal Boortz talk about her on his radio show. This poor woman is a public school teacher who lives in...

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Mass Shootings: Cleveland area police suggest everything but defending yourself

12:10am Monday, December 10, 2007

The first 911 call was made at 1:43 p.m. Dispatchers sent out an alert two minutes later, and the first police officer arrived four minutes after that. By then, the shooting was over. - USA Today By Ken Hanson Dave Summers of WKYC in Cleveland has posted an interview with Lyndhurst Police Sergeant Pat Rhode, detailing police strategy to react to an “active shooter” situation. Unfortunately for...

Youngstown Vindicator: ''Supporters push self-defense bill''

12:05am Monday, December 10, 2007

EDITOR'S UPDATE: Our friend Brent Greer at The Ready Line blog has learned that the statement attributed to Ellen Wickham in the Youngstown Vindicator is a fabrication (see strike-through text below). Greer notes that not only did Ms. Wickham not insinuate those words, she never even spoke to the reporter, Mr. Mark Kovac. Her actual testimony is recorded on Greer's blog here . Developing.....

Northern Ohio hunters stabbed during gun week

12:10am Friday, December 07, 2007

By Larry S. Moore The Sandusky Register reported last week that two deer hunters were brutally attacked during the 2007 deer gun season in a Berlin Township field when a drifter stabbed them repeatedly with a knife. First, all of us at Buckeye Firearms Association extend our heartfelt sympathies to the families of these hunters and wish for a speedy recovery. Certainly these hunters headed afield...

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Brady Act and the Lautenberg Amendment is costing lives

12:05am Friday, December 07, 2007

By Tim Inwood On November 15th I was interviewed by Eric Flack of Channel 5 news in Cincinnati. In the course of preparing for his biased news report , he asked me a tired clichéd question: “Wouldn’t it be worth it if it saves one life to extend background checks to all gun sales ?” The question was pertaining to forcing all gun sales to go through a Brady background check at the gun shows...

SB184: Castle Doctrine receives second hearing

2:15pm Thursday, December 06, 2007

By Linda Walker Sen. Steve Buehrer's anxiously awaited Castle Doctrine bill (SB184), introduced in June, received it's second hearing on Wednesday, December 5. This hearing was for proponent testimony only. Castle Doctrine, sometimes referred to as Stand Your Ground legislation, will protect innocent crime victims by maintaining the presumption of their innocence should they be faced with the use...