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Feds more concerned with right to privacy than state bureaucrats?

10:47am Wednesday, January 28, 2004

During the decade-long fight to restore Ohioans' self-defense rights, the gun ban lobby tried everything to derail the effort. At nearly every turn, the Ohio Senate and Gov. Taft seemed all too willing to let the opposition write our new law. One of the issues the extremists fought for was a background check that included scans for persons who were "mentally ill". As with all their roadblocks,...

More Senior Citizens Armed with Guns

5:35pm Tuesday, January 27, 2004

January 25, 2004 KPLC TV - Lake Charles/Layfayette, LA The number of crimes involving firearms is down, but still in 2002, more than 350-thousand people were the victims of a gun crime. Some people have said "enough" and are fighting back and arming themselves. The majority of gun owners used to be mostly middle aged, but now, seniors -- those 65 and older -- are most likely to be armed. align="...

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Zogby polls on voters' views on CCW & other firearm owners' rights

7:25am Monday, January 26, 2004

In a pre-9/11 poll, 67% of Ohioans said they preferred a CCW law that had training and background checks. Yet this isn't what we've been hearing from the gun ban lobby, now is it? After reading these results from Zogby, you'll have good reason to expect that 67% figure has gone up in Ohio, as the numbers have gone up nationwide. We certainly don't expect to be seeing these new findings in the...

Gun owner: I, not cops, got bad guy

6:50am Monday, January 26, 2004

Jan. 22, 2004 Chicago Sun-Times Three days after Christmas, someone broke into the DeMar family home in Wilmette through a dog door, stealing a television, an SUV and the keys to the home. The next night, Hale DeMar was prepared for a return visit. With his children upstairs, DeMar, 54, shot burglar Morio Billings, 31, in the shoulder and calf, police said. Billings was caught at a nearby...

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Letter to the editor: Some gun bill provisions deserve to be repealed

4:25pm Sunday, January 25, 2004

Middletown Journal 01.17.04 Sour grapes. That’s what seeps out of the sardonic editorial (“Gun bill provisions will be next target”) in the Jan. 10 Journal. The most ludicrous of these “targeted provisions” in Ohio’s new concealed carry law is this one: Reporters are allowed to learn the names of permit-holders. Now why would our beloved newspaper object to this provision being removed from the...

Plain Dealer opinions spill onto news pages

3:12pm Sunday, January 25, 2004

Seemingly not content with their three editorials on the subject , the Cleveland Plain Dealer's latest rant about the open records issue and concealed carry is written in the form of "news". Concealing weapons & records 01/25/04 Julie Carr Smyth Columbus - A battle is under way in America over whether you deserve to know who is carrying a concealed handgun - and Ohio is at its heart. When Gov...

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ABC News and 20/20 engage in a bit of truth-telling on guns

11:46am Saturday, January 24, 2004

May wonders never cease. Nestled in amongst a 20/20 report on urban legends comes this little gem. So the question is, will ABC stop falsely reporting it? Lies, Myths and Downright Stupidity (John) Stossel's List of Popularly Reported Misconceptions Myth No. 3 — Guns are Bad America is notorious for its culture of gun violence. Guns sometimes do cause terrible harm, and many kids are killed every...

Cleveland lawyer shopping anti-self-defense op-ed

11:06am Saturday, January 24, 2004

Attorney Stephanie E. Trudeau, a Cleveland employment and labor lawyer who can be reached at [email protected] or (216) 621-8400, has issued an anti-self-defense press release instructing businesses on the merits of banning licensees from carrying their firearms while at work, while shopping, or simply while visiting on business. This attorney's agenda is as transparent as it is one-sided. What...