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Ohio Spring Turkey Season - Tough and Confusing

12:15am Friday, May 25, 2007

By Larry S. Moore As the Division of Wildlife press release on the conclusion of the spring turkey season notes, the harvest was down 7 percent. Spring turkey hunters found a mixed bag of weather and hunting results. Many reasons, or excuses, are being offered. Dayton Daily News outdoors writer Jim Robey writes : Some hunters blame a cold snap about the time the hunting began. Others question...

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Op-Ed: Democrats show some common sense on guns

12:10am Friday, May 25, 2007

By Mike Hudson Niagara Falls Reporter Having been a registered Democrat since the Ford administration, I know better than to say my party is a lead-pipe cinch in next year's presidential election. If there is any way to screw it up, the Democrats will find it. The wretched candidacies of Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis and John Kerry provide ample evidence of that. I am happy, then -- and...

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Anti-gun Plain Dealer readers upset over politician's pro-gun conversion

12:10am Thursday, May 24, 2007

On Tuesday, May 15, Plain Dealer columnist Phillip Morris published a story detailing State Rep. Michael DeBose's mugging and subsequent conversion experience to a pro-gun point of view. There appear to be a few Plain Dealer readers who - much like DeBose before that fateful night - have likely never experienced a violent attack, yet think they know better than DeBose about how to survive one...

Headline: OSU Pistol Club takes aim at gun education

12:05am Thursday, May 24, 2007

The (OSU) Lantern has published an informative article on the Ohio State University Pistol Club, and comments posted by readers prove there is a demand for more of this type of coverage. From the story: Gunshots rang out from several .22-caliber pistols during the Ohio State Pistol Club's weekly meeting at the firing range in Converse Hall Thursday evening. The group exists to promote...

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Bloomberg attacks nation's law enforcement officers

12:05am Wednesday, May 23, 2007

By Chad D. Baus The nation's police and law enforcement organizations are flies in anti-gun, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ointment, and the potential third party presidential hopeful isn't taking it well. Recently, Bloomberg launched http://www.protectpolice.org/ , in hopes of framing his latest gun control scheme in those terms. His efforts have been seriously undermined, however, by...

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Don't let your children be victims of the ''Culture of Sheep''

12:10am Tuesday, May 22, 2007

By Tim Inwood Earlier in May I recounted a story from my youth in “Time for the sun to set on the Culture of Sheep” , where I complained of having been punished for defending myself. When it comes to the “Culture of Sheep”, I had barely scratched the surface in my disdain for what it has done to my country. My desire to examine and discuss how to undermine this national disease of indoctrinated...

Yet another op-ed writer fantasizes gun control could prevent massacre

12:05am Tuesday, May 22, 2007

By Chad D. Baus In the wake of Toledo Blade editorial board member Dan Simpson's tirade against the Constitution , and a recent Springfield (OH) News Sun editorial entitled "More guns not the answer to violence", yet another anti-gun writer has taken a stab at his dream list of gun control that he believe would stop incidents like last month's massacre on the "no guns" Virginia Tech campus. In "...

The media and guns – things they should know

12:10am Monday, May 21, 2007

By Larry S. Moore As firearms and self-defense activists, we see a lot of news stories that involve guns. Unfortunately much of it involves the misuse of firearms. Even more unfortunate is the inaccurate reporting of firearms use and misuse in these stories. Many of us read the mainstream media reports and wonder if the media has an agenda to make any use of a firearm sound bad. I suppose some do...