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President Bush steers clear of Taft on Cleveland visit

8:32pm Thursday, March 11, 2004

(Compiled from Columbus Dispatch campaign report, March 11, 2004) Gov. Bob Taft, Ohio chairman of the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, often introduces President Bush to Ohio audiences. But Taft was absent yesterday when Bush spoke to businesswomen in Cleveland. Taft, who’s approval rating was just 47 percent in a February Ohio Poll conducted by the University of Cincinnati, remained in Columbus...

Attacked at work: Robber shoots at employee during chase

11:49am Thursday, March 11, 2004

One more citizen who may have felt that Ohio's affirmative defense law was inadequate as a means of legal self-defense, even though she carries large amounts of cash for her job. April 8 cannot come soon enough for Ohio's crime victims. March 11, 2004 Dayton Daily News DAYTON | A robber shot at an employee of Benjamin's Burger Master, 1000 N. Main St., after the employee chased him into the...

Attacked at work: Police seeking vendor's shooter

9:56am Thursday, March 11, 2004

March 9, 2004 Cincinnati Enquirer MONROE - Police are asking for the public's help to find clues to the shooting death of a veteran vendor at the popular Trader's World flea market. It's this city's police department's first homicide case in nearly three years. A police officer early Monday found William E. Doolittle, 41, of Findlay, dead in the back of his van in the parking lot of the Stony...

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Editorial points out that ''so many nowadays carry guns'' illegally

9:33am Thursday, March 11, 2004

Editors at the Cincinnati Enquirer seem to comprehend the problems facing their city. Gun control and Ohio's concealed carry ban has done nothing to deter criminals from using guns to commit crimes. We are left to wonder if the Enquirer has a plan to publish all the names of people illegally carrying concealed, since they advocated an amendment to House Bill 12 which will allow law-abiding CHL-...

Dayton: Husband attacks, wife uses firearm for self-defense

9:16am Thursday, March 11, 2004

March 10, 2004 Dayton Daily News Wounded man caught, arrested SOUTH VIENNA | A Mechanicsburg man who rode away on a bicycle after being shot in the neck Tuesday with a .45-caliber revolver during a domestic argument with his wife and her brother was later arrested on violence-related charges. Eric Champlin, 22, of 8546 Brigner Road was released from Community Hospital after being treated for the...

OH businesses need to consider 'Extraordinary Liability Advisory' before banning

11:17am Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Ohioans For Concealed Carry is hearing from more and more businesses who are deciding AGAINST posting discriminatory signs banning CHL (concealed handgun license) -holders from their property while bearing arms for self-defense. Many of these businesses are deciding to do so after consulting with their partners, or branches, in other states which already have a concealed-carry law, and learning...

Takes one to know one? Akron Mayor calls Country Diners owner an ''idiot''

10:31am Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Special thanks to OFCC supporter Murray Winland for sending us this Akron "idiot" report. Upon passage of Ohio House Bill 12, Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic whined, "We took guns away from the Wild, Wild West more than 100 years ago,'' he said, "and we're revisiting it. I really think it's a sad day. "It's a real indication of the wrong direction that the state of Ohio has gone with these right-wing...

Slaby sworn in as representative

6:50am Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Mar. 10, 2004 Akron Beacon Journal COLUMBUS - Marilyn Slaby was sworn in Tuesday as state representative from the 41st District. Slaby, a Republican, will finish the unexpired term of Bryan Williams, who resigned after being named director of the Summit County Board of Elections. "I welcome the opportunity to serve the citizens of the 41st House District and the chance to meet the challenges...