Stories

CNN Poll: Fading support for stricter gun control exposes reason why extremists move immediately to exploit tragedy

7:00am Monday, December 16, 2013

by Chad D. Baus CNN reported recently that "as memories fade from last December's horrific school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, a new national poll indicates that support for stricter gun control laws appears to be fading, too." While CNN's premise that only a fading memory can explain the decline in support for gun control is bogus, the findings are none-the-less encouraging. From the...

Obama and Bloomberg Use December 14 to Promote Gun Control

3:00pm Friday, December 13, 2013

Google "Organizing for Action" (OFA), supposedly a non-partisan, grassroots group, and you get www.barackobama.com . Likewise, click on the preceding link, and it takes you to the Organizing for Action website. Despite OFA's innocuous-sounding name, the Chicago-based group is an arm of the Obama political machine, the successor to a similar Obama store-front put together after his 2008 election,...

School safety for active killer events

7:00am Friday, December 13, 2013

Editor's Note: The following article editorial was published on December 3 edition of the Sidney Daily News . School officials in that city, with the support and aid of the Shelby Co. Sheriff, have implemented a program to provide armed staff members inside the schools, and are struggling with a resistant local police chief. by Jim Irvine Everyone wants schools to be safe, but how is that best...

Read more about School safety for active killer events
1289 reads

Op-Ed: Predictions by anti-gun crowd rarely come true

3:00pm Thursday, December 12, 2013

by Mike McCoy Law-abiding citizens are likely to soon see several improvements to Ohio’s concealed carry law. In a bipartisan vote Tuesday, the Policy and Legislative Oversight Committee of the Ohio House of Representatives voted to send House Bill 203 to the full House. This was an important step in moving this legislation to passage. ...What the misnamed stand your ground provision actually...

School safety – what teachers tell us about your kid’s school

9:40am Thursday, December 12, 2013

by Jim Irvine Saturday, December 14, 2013 marks the one year anniversary since a coward murdered his mother, stole her gun and her car, then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where he brutally murdered his mother, six school employees and 20 innocent children before committing suicide. Buckeye Firearms Foundation recently surveyed school employees to find out what has...

Op-Ed: Women the 'Holy Grail' of gun rights movement

3:00pm Wednesday, December 11, 2013

by Raquel Okyay Women seeking to arm themselves and their daughters are figuring out that guns are not 'taboo' but a powerful means of protection. "Women are the holy grail of the Second Amendment movement," said Skip Coryell nationally recognized firearm expert and author of the newly released The Shadow Militia. The Second Amendment will stand or fall depending on the way women vote, he said. "...

Read more about Op-Ed: Women the 'Holy Grail' of gun rights movement
1596 reads

Survey shows nearly two dozen Ohio schools authorize carrying of guns to improve kids' safety

9:41am Wednesday, December 11, 2013

by Jim Irvine Saturday, December 14, 2013 marks the one year anniversary since a coward murdered his mother, stole her gun and her car, then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. There he broke a window through which he entered the school, murdered several administrators then walked down the hallway and shot teachers before killing a classroom full of children. All told...

Ohio Hunters Harvest more than 75,000 Deer during Weeklong Gun Season

3:00pm Tuesday, December 10, 2013

COLUMBUS, OH – Ohio hunters checked 75,408 white-tailed deer during the weeklong gun hunting season, Dec. 2-8, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). "With the muzzleloader season and almost two months of archery hunting yet to come, Ohio hunters have many more opportunities to harvest a deer," said Scott Zody, chief of the ODNR Division of Wildlife. Hunting is the best and...