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Fremont News Messenger applauds passage of illegal ordinance

7:57pm Monday, June 07, 2004

June 4, 2004 Fremont News Messenger Clyde's ban on guns in parks is right on target Clyde City Council members as the people's representatives in a charter-form of government took advantage of an opportunity to protect residents -- one that most other cities might not have at this stage. Clyde Council and the city's administration boldly decided to ban concealed weapons in the city's parks...

CNN Poll Shows Growing Opposition to Extension of Clinton Gun Ban

1:06pm Monday, June 07, 2004

June 4, 2004 WASHINGTON, June 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- "A CNN internet poll ongoing for about a month shows there is growing opposition to proposals to extend the 1994 Clinton era ban on the manufacture and importation of certain semiautomatic firearms," John Michael Snyder, public affairs director of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), stated here today. CNN posed...

Gun Control Failure: British Residents Trained to Treat Gunshot Wounds

12:59pm Monday, June 07, 2004

June 1, 2004 British Broadcasting Corp. Red Cross officials are providing first-aid training to British residents living in high gun-crime areas so that they can provide basic first aid at the scenes of shootings, the BBC reported June 1. Training has begun in parts of Manchester, including Moss Side and Hulme. According to Red Cross officials, the goal is to save lives by providing residents...

Ohio Parole Board sets serial rapist on the prowl

12:42pm Monday, June 07, 2004

June 04, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer What does the Ohio Parole Board have against the state's elderly women? As a recent article points out (" Convicted rapist will be paroled, must register ," May 28), a parole board has decided to release a man with a criminal record going back 40 years, including convictions for attempted rape as well as sexual assaults of women aged 72 and 84. In fact, he...

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Man in Wheelchair Robbed

9:18am Monday, June 07, 2004

June 4, 2004 Ohio News Network A disabled man was thrown from his wheelchair and robbed for his disability check overnight in the West End. The neighborhood says it's becoming a trend: Criminals on the prowl at the start of each month when they know welfare, disability, and other checks are issued. Criminals who do this are preying on the weak. Early Wednesday morning in the West End that was...

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Gun carry [licenses] in demand

4:18pm Sunday, June 06, 2004

June 6, 2004 Akron Beacon-Journal Sheriff's departments say applications steady; 320 OK'd in Summit In Summit County, the applications are still coming at the rate of 100 a week -- people who want the right to carry guns. It's been that way since April 7, when Ohio became the 46th state to allow law abiding citizens to carry weapons. The process takes about six weeks. More than 320 applications...

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Op-Ed: Taking aim at fear with a .22-caliber

10:59am Saturday, June 05, 2004

How tragic that it takes being victimized for some liberals to "wake up" on the importance of legalized self-defense, and how tragic that this woman believes a marriage license can protect her. June 2, 2004 Newsday.com By Susan Cheever The afternoon of the day I was attacked, I drove into the nearest town and bought a gun. In the report I had already filed with the police, I described the...

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The System Works

10:19pm Friday, June 04, 2004

June 4, 2004 NewsNet5.com Man Arrested After Lying On Application LOUISVILLE, Ohio -- A man is arrested after he reportedly lied on an application to carry a concealed weapon. According to Stark County Sheriff's officials, while investigating Donald Holmes, 57, it was discovered that he had a criminal background. Holmes, of Louisville, indicated "no" on the application for the question asking...