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Another newspaper op-ed recognizes the folly of Mayor Jackson's gun control

12:10am Tuesday, September 18, 2007

As an anti-gun politician, you know it's a bad, bad, really bad day when not just one, but two newspapers publish editorials against your latest legislative proposal on gun control. And that is just what has happened concerning Mayor Frank Jackson's proposal to ban firearms ownership for persons under 21 years of age. Just 3 days after the Cleveland Plain Dealer said " New gun laws wouldn't solve...

Several previous Buckeye Firearms Assoc. endorsees consider run for Congress

12:05am Tuesday, September 18, 2007

The Toledo Blade is reporting that a special election will be held on December 11 in Ohio's 5th Congressional district so that northest Ohio voters may chose a replacement for the recently-deceased Rep. Paul Gillmore. Perhaps more interesting will be the primary, scheduled to coincide with the statewide general election on November 6. According to the Blade, several proven pro-gun state...

Challenges lie before us

12:10am Monday, September 17, 2007

By Tim Inwood For many years, the enemies of gun ownership have hatched various plots to take our firearms. Outright bans have been met with resistance, and so these folks have had to resort to less overt, but just as nefarious, plots to reach their goals. I have noted that there are several things coming together at this time that are a huge threat to we, the gun owners in the United States...

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Dispatch/Blade editorials reveal media misunderstanding about CHL records

12:05am Monday, September 17, 2007

With each newspaper editorial expressing journalists' misgivings with the pending changes to the media access to concealed handgun license (CHL) records loophole, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the Cleveland Plain Dealer isn't the only newspaper to fail to read legislation before editorializing on it. Last week, in an editorial entitled "Idea misfires: Pending law on conceal-carry...

Columbus Dispatch editorial: Amend law on conceal-carry records

12:15am Friday, September 14, 2007

By Chad D. Baus When Ohio House Bill 9 was signed into law, the media gave it surprisingly little attention (especially given how hard the media pushed for the open records bill for the past two years). But now that a provision modifying how Ohio's sheriffs are to handle the confidential records of concealed handgun licenseholders is about to take effect, the editorial boards are beginning to...

The Cost

12:10am Friday, September 14, 2007

By Gerard Valentino Imagine that someone broke into your house and forced you to defend your family by using the gun kept stored in your nightstand. The instant you pulled that trigger your life has changed in ways you cannot fathom. Right now your ears are straining to hear the sirens that trumpet the arrival of the people that will save you from this nightmare – the local police. As a law-...

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Plain Dealer Editorial: New gun laws wouldn't solve Cleveland's crime problem

12:10am Thursday, September 13, 2007

By Chad D. Baus Having taken the Cleveland Plain Dealer to task for grievances ranging from reversing their editorial position on statewide preemption of local gun control laws without acknowledging the reversal (let alone explaining it), to publishing false information on campus "no-guns" zones, to failing to read legislation before editorializing on it, and stalling for weeks before publishing...

Another murder, in another “gun free” zone

12:05am Thursday, September 13, 2007

By Jim Irvine This week, a former employee killed a current employee while she was working. The victim could not legally defend her life because she lived and worked in Wisconsin, one of only two states that have no concealed carry program. After killing his victim, the killer turned his gun on himself and took his own life. It is common for criminals to be cowards and be unwilling to face the...