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LTE: Conceal-carry was factor in stopping attack

12:05am Tuesday, May 15, 2007

The following letter was written in response to a letter to the Columbus Dispatch editor by a gun ban extremist who attempted to mislead readers about two well-known cases of armed citizens stopping mass murderers during school shootings. May 11, 2007 Columbus Dispatch Michael Holloway's Tuesday letter "Little evidence guns make campus safer," responding to an earlier op-ed, was filled with...

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SAF Leadership Conference better arms Regional Activists

10:51pm Monday, May 14, 2007

The Second Amendment Foundation held a leadership training conference on Saturday, May 12 at the Drawbridge Inn and Convention Center in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky. This is also site of the 2007 Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) that will be held October 5-7. The event brought together leaders and activists from Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana to network, share ideas, and learn from the experience and...

Self Defense Against Rogue Statistics

12:10am Monday, May 14, 2007

by Dean Rieck Mark Twain is often quoted as saying, “There are three types of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics.” That’s another way of saying that while statistics are useful, they can be slippery. Much of the problem with statistics is ignorance about how they are created and what they mean. However, many people, including some anti-gun zealots, purposely misuse statistics, especially...

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Gun licenses safe choice

12:05am Monday, May 14, 2007

By Karl Spaulding When Florida liberalized its restrictive and disjointed system of concealed carry laws in 1987, many states followed suit. In each case, naysayers predicted everything from "blood in the streets" to "parking lot shootouts." Just as regularly, after each state changed the law to allow more law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns, the results were peacefully anticlimactic...

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Lunch wagon driver defends life when armed robbers attack

12:18pm Saturday, May 12, 2007

The Cincinnati Enquirer is reporting that a Hamilton County business man and CHL-holder was able to defend his life when attacked by two armed robbers. From the Cincinnati Enquirer: Cincinnati police Lt. Chris Matzen said two men tried to rob the driver of the lunch wagon at Millsdale Street at Curzon Avenue, just west of Anthony Wayne Avenue. During the attempted robbery, one suspect fired shots...

College professor tells OU students tragic event to change his viewpoint on guns

12:10am Friday, May 11, 2007

The Athens (OH) News reported earlier this week that, as a part of Firearms Awareness Week, the Ohio University Second Amendment Club hosted University of North Carolina Wilmington criminology professor Mike Adams as a guest speaker. Adams is a regular columnist for conservative news and opinion Web site Townhall.com. From the story: A criminology professor from North Carolina last Thursday told...

Officers volunteer to protect CHL-holder; Some politicians still don't get it

11:36am Thursday, May 10, 2007

By Chad D. Baus NewsChannel5 (ABC Cleveland) is reporting that police officers will volunteer their time to protect an Ohio CHL-holder who shot and killed an armed 15-year-old who was attempting to rob him. Since the April 21 shooting, the CHL-holder's home has been vandalized by friends of the dead robber, who already had a criminal record. Both Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Regina Brett and...

Plain Dealer LTEs: Guns in the wrongs hands - and the right ones

12:05am Thursday, May 10, 2007

The Cleveland Plain Dealer has published several letters to the editor in response to its April 29 story entitled "Gun advocates: Statistics are inadequate" and to the continued discussion over the latest Ohio CHL-holder to defend his own life when attacked. Getting to the source of delinquents' angst? I see very little difference between the young criminal who was recently killed in Mount...