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Law enforcement cuts statewide - only YOU can protect you

9:34am Saturday, January 24, 2004

Champaign County sheriff to cut force Tight budget blamed; 29 will lose jobs by month's end January 24, 2004 Cox News Service URBANA -- The Champaign County Sheriff's Office will lay off more than half its 52-member force at midnight Jan. 30, the sheriff said Friday night. Twenty-nine workers — including all lieutenants, sergeants, detectives and part-time employees — will be furloughed. "This is...

Toledo police: Self-defense a ''right'' you shouldn't exercise

3:49pm Friday, January 23, 2004

January 23, 2004 Toledo Blade Carryout owners have the right to defend themselves with guns and baseball bats, if necessary, Toledo police Chief Michael Navarre said yesterday. The chief, speaking at a City Council hearing to a roomful of carryout owners, stressed that nonresistance is the best response to an armed robber. But pressed by business owners to explain their rights to use deadly force...

Cleveland gun grabbers using tragedy to call for waiting periods

3:06pm Friday, January 23, 2004

When violent offenders strike in a high-profile fashion, the gun ban lobby's hypocracy comes in spades, especially, it would seem, in Cleveland. In the wake of the Case Western Reserve University shooting last year, in spite of the fact that it was the Million Mom March who held a tasteless press conference before the victim of the shooting was even laid to rest, a headline in the Cleveland Plain...

‘Dispatch’ just a shill for gun-ban lobbies

7:37am Friday, January 23, 2004

January 23, 2004 Columbus Dispatch I knew that the editors of The Dispatch were upset about the signing of the concealed-carry bill, as was demonstrated by the Jan. 11 editorials. I did not realize that the whine of the editors was made from so many sour grapes ("2 city gun stores among leaders in sales to criminals, group says," Dispatch article, Jan. 13). I will expect that any time one of the...

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Letter to the Editor: Concealed-carry law welcomed by many

7:27am Friday, January 23, 2004

January 23, 2004 Dayton Daily News RE "TAFT SOLD OUT GOOD GOVERNMENT," JAN.9: Once again the Dayton Daily News has come to the debate without evidence. The editorial suggests that Gov. Bob Taft caved in to the gun lobby. That is just silly rhetoric. The debate is no longer about if people licensed to carry will have shoot-outs over parking spots, or use a gun in a domestic dispute, or shoot an...

Concealed weapons: Why do people want to carry?

5:27pm Thursday, January 22, 2004

January 22, 2004 Newark Advocate HEBRON -- A retired police officer, a Zanesville bar owner and a construction worker who spends a lot of time on the road have this in common: They each plan to get a concealed gun permit and say the number one reason they will start carrying a weapon is for personal protection. "I do a lot of time on the road. You never know where you might end up," said Dave...

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Letter to the Editor: Ohio’s gun-death data questionable, at best

11:08am Thursday, January 22, 2004

January 22, 2004 Columbus Dispatch Why would The Dispatch publish the Jan. 9 article with the headline "Ohio fares poorly on firearms safety"? This headline would have summarized the article much better: "Groups that wish to ban private firearms ownership unhappy with Ohioans exercising constitutionally protected rights." Between 2000, when Ohio had a C rating, and 2004, when Ohio received a D,...

Skeptic Gives Guns a Shot

7:42am Thursday, January 22, 2004

The firearms issue looks a little different from behind the trigger. COMMENTARY By Diana Wagman Guns are bad. All my life, it's been that simple. At my son's preschool, if a child pointed a banana and said "bang," he was admonished to "use the banana in a happier way." As far as I was concerned, the 2nd Amendment gave us the right to protect ourselves against invading armies, not the right to buy...