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Op-Ed: Gun toting teachers' names must remain private

4:00pm Wednesday, August 21, 2013

by John Lott Are people safer if criminals know who is carrying concealed handguns? Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel seems to think so. With school starting soon, he claims that if the Clarksville, Arkansas School District lets employees carry concealed handguns at school, their names must be made public. This is his second attempt to derail the school district's proposal. McDaniel's...

AG DeWine declares some school safety plans "useless"

8:00am Wednesday, August 21, 2013

by Chad D. Baus The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that, while all Ohio schools meet the legal requirement of having a school safety plan, many are outdated, incomplete or useless to law enforcement. State law requires schools to file reports on how they would handle an active killer incident or other emergency, the article observes, but there are no penalties for failing to file, and the...

Ohio's children need protection...period.

8:00am Tuesday, August 20, 2013

by Mindy Whited On July 27, the Cleveland Plain Dealer published an op-ed by Renuka Mayadev entitled " Ohio's children need protection from guns ." In the article, Mayadev cites several tragic accidental shootings involving Ohio children as reasons for which Ohio should pass new gun control laws. I am a mom to five children ages 3-20. I agree that as a mom, our first priority should be keeping...

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Rumor Control: U.N. "Disarmament" Memo

8:00am Tuesday, August 20, 2013

As attacks on our Second Amendment rights continue, there is typically a corresponding uptick in the number of internet rumors concerning firearms, ammunition, and gun-control measures. The latest rumor involves the United Nations, a group that indeed poses an ongoing potential threat to our Second Amendment rights. However, this rumor was highly suspect right from the start. Pictures of the...

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Piers Morgan Tells a Whopper

4:00pm Monday, August 19, 2013

If you have the misfortune to be familiar with Piers Morgan, the British former tabloid "reporter" and "talent judge" known on this side of the Atlantic as CNN's most overbearing gun control proselytizer, you won't be surprised at what he did on Tuesday. It began during an interview with military history expert A.W.R. Hawkins, as Morgan pushed his theory that more gun ownership leads to more...

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Communications to Buckeye Firearms Foundation about Zimmerman Second Amendment Fund expose raging anti-gun mentality

8:00am Monday, August 19, 2013

by Chad D. Baus Nearly a decade ago, I came across an article by a Dr. Sarah Thompson, entitled " Raging Against Self Defense - A Psychiatrist Examines The Anti-Gun Mentality ." The article was originally published by Utah Gun Owners Alliance, where Dr. Thompson served as executive director, but I came across it on the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership's website. In the article, Dr...

Mayor Bloomberg’s Anti-Gun “No More Names” Tour Stops in Ohio

4:00pm Friday, August 16, 2013

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Columbus Dispatch reported that only about 40 anti-gun rights people attended this rally - less than the number of pro-gun counter protesters counted by the author, who states "I did a visual head-count at three different times throughout the morning, and the pro-Second Amendment side never had less than 23, and had 46 at its peak at 11:00 AM." As the author points out, in...

Unveiled: Gun ban extremists' secret playbook: Part 2

8:00am Friday, August 16, 2013

by Chad D. Baus A friend sent a very interesting document to me recently - one that is making its rounds through the gun rights community after having been leaked online. Entitled " Preventing Gun Violence Through Effective Messaging ," it is an 80-page playbook designed to help anti-gun rights extremists learn why they continue to get beat, and how to change their message so as to fool the...