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Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine calls for arming school employees

3:00pm Wednesday, December 19, 2012

by Chad D. Baus Various Ohio media are reporting that advocates who've long been calling for arming our teachers to deter mass murderers and to stop them if they can, have a new ally: Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R). From The Columbus Dispatch : Attorney General Mike DeWine said today that Ohio schools should consider arming at least one staffer in their building in case of a shooting...

Across the nation and around the world: BFA brings facts to an extremely emotional nation following Connecticut killings

7:00am Wednesday, December 19, 2012

by Chad D. Baus In the wake of the Auroro, CO "no-guns" theater shooting, Buckeye Firearms Association published an article entitled " How long is too long to wait to defend the Second Amendment? ," in which we discussed the dilemma we face each time another deranged lunatic decides to murder as many people as they can in a "no-guns" zone. In the article, I outlined how the media and gun control...

Op-Ed: I am Adam Lanza’s Mother

3:00pm Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Friday's horrific national tragedy, the murder of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, has ignited a new discussion on violence in America. Liza Long, a writer based in Boise, says it's easy to talk about guns. But it's time to talk about mental illness. by Liza Long Three days before 20 year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, then opened fire on a...

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Headline: Kasich Will Not Delay Signing Of New Gun Bill

7:00am Tuesday, December 18, 2012

by Chad D. Baus WBNS (CBS Columbus) is reporting that Gov. John Kasich said he will sign House Bill 495, even after calls on him to postpone his decision in wake of the Connecticut shooting. The liberal group Progress Ohio, possibly acting as a mouthpiece for Mayor Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns , had requested Kasich hold off signing the law. From the article : "I'm a Second Amendment...

Bloomberg’s “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” Has Barely-Bipartisan Support in Ohio

3:00pm Monday, December 17, 2012

by Jesse Hathaway The "bipartisan" support claimed by Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), a national coalition of more than 700 mostly progressive mayors, is slim and dwindling in Ohio. MAIG, founded by anti-Second Amendment New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has coordinated with leftist groups and staffers in Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman's office to target Ohioans' gun rights. Between 2009...

Our children are dying for our insanity; It's time to emulate Israel's successful efforts to prevent mass killings in schools

7:00am Monday, December 17, 2012

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Unknown by Jim Irvine Like you, my heart sank when I heard the news of the mass killings in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. "Not again," I thought. How many people, especially our children must die before we change our thinking? Sadly I fear that 26, including 20...

Ohio Offers Hunters Additional Weekend for Deer-Gun Season

3:00pm Friday, December 14, 2012

COLUMBUS, OH – Ohio's deer-gun season returns Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 15-16, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. Hunters can use a legal shotgun, muzzleloader or handgun to pursue white-tailed deer Dec. 15-16 from a half-hour before sunrise to sunset. The extra weekend days were added in 2006 in response to hunters' requests for extended weekend...

Sharon Kennedy sworn in as Supreme Court justice; Credits hard work and support from Second Amendment advocates for her victory

7:00am Friday, December 14, 2012

by Chad D. Baus Standing before a packed audience in the main courtroom of the Moyer Judicial Center, Sharon Kennedy was sworn in Friday, December 7 as Ohio's 154th Supreme Court justice. As reported by Gongwer News Service, Justice Kennedy, who had served as a domestic relations judge on the Butler County Court of Common Pleas, upset anti-gun incumbent Democrat Yvette McGee Brown last month...