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Should Teachers Be Armed?

by Jim Irvine

7:00am Thursday, March 01, 2018

Editor's Note: The following article was submitted to WalletHub.com in response to their request for comments for an article they published in lae 2016 entitled Should Teachers Be Armed? Experts Pick Sides . The article also features comments from Dr. John R. Lott and Ohio's own Ron Borsch, among others. It originally appeared on our website on February 6, 2017. From the times of ancient yore...

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Report: Nearly 100 courts in Ohio failed to report felons to background check database on time

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, March 01, 2018

The Cincinnati Enquirer 's Jesse Balmert and Chrissie Thompson are reporting that hundreds or perhaps even thousands of felons in Ohio could still be allowed to pass a background check to purchase a firearm, all because dozens of Ohio courts are delinquent - sometimes by months or even years - in their responsibility to upload some paperwork. The report notes that when someone is convicted – or...

Republicans warm to arming teachers AND gun control proposals?

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Wednesday, February 28, 2018

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. It's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before." - Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Nov. 19, 2008 “Everything kind of has its time. ...We’ve got a moment now, a window.” - Ohio Gov. John Kasich, February 25, 2018 It's been two weeks since a mentally-ill young man carried out his plans to commit mass murder in...

Ohio Democrats' "assault weapons" ban would actually take your semi-auto squirrel-hunting gun (and all the rest)

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Never shy about taking the "opportunity" of dead children to propose legislation they've wanted anyways, Democrats in the Ohio Senate last week introduced Senate Bill 260 - a bill that seeks to "prohibit a person from knowingly possessing or acquiring an assault weapon and to require the Attorney General to prepare for the establishment of a firearm and ammunition transactions database." Given...

Do people have the right to own any semi-automatic rifle, magazine size? Yes

by Ken Hanson

3:00pm Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Editor's Note: The following article first appeared on this website on April 3, 2013. We, the people, have the constitutional right to own semiautomatic rifles and the standard-capacity magazines designed for those rifles. The plain words in the U.S. and Ohio constitutions establish this, so long as those words are given their ordinary, everyday meanings. This is why proponents of gun control...

Arming Teachers, a Countermeasure to Active Killers

by Ron Borsch

7:00am Tuesday, February 27, 2018

As a retired law enforcement officer, in my second career of training police officers, one of my proprietary courses was Tactical 1st Responder ©, the responses to Rapid Mass Murder©, which was eventually attended by officers from ten states. Having researched Rapid Mass Murder© by the random acts of active killers back to 1975, I discovered that the primary target of this type of homicide was...

Outback Steakhouse: No Rights, Just Rules

3:00pm Monday, February 26, 2018

The word “Outback” used to conjure images of Australia’s tenacious frontier spirit; of hunters, ranchers, and other adventurers who carved out a harsh existence from an unforgiving land. Thanks to a decades-long campaign to distance the island nation from certain elements of its rugged heritage and the proliferation of an Australian-themed casual dining restaurant chain, today the word “Outback”...

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Too Many Teachers Still Armed with Lucky Charms

by Ken Hanson

12:00pm Monday, February 26, 2018

Editor's Note: The following article first appeared on this website on October 9, 2007. Leaders at Buckeye Firearms Association have long-offered more than tweets about "thoughts and prayers," and in 2012 we put our ideas into action through the FASTER Saves Lives program . Anti-Second Amendment politicians and their media sycophants are Still. Just. Talking. Another school year has started. Kids...