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Toledo concealed handgun license-holder defends own life during robbery attempt

3:49pm Monday, March 03, 2008

By Chad D. Baus The Toledo Blade is reporting that another Ohio CHL-holder is alive today because he had the means to protect himself when attacked. The newspaper, which editorialized against concealed carry both before and after it became law (one editorial board member went so far as theorize on how he would disarm the entire American population ), and which prohibits its newspaper carriers...

To my gun-owning Democrat friends: How could you vote for either one?

12:10am Monday, March 03, 2008

By Chad D. Baus I've spent the last few weeks examining the choices left on the GOP primary ballot. I thought on this Ohio Primary eve I would take a look the choices my pro-gun Democrat friends are facing. In Ohio alone, approximately 1/2 million people have hunting and/ or concealed handgun licenses. More importantly, Ohio gun owners made up 27 percent of the total vote in Ohio in the year 2000...

It really is ok to be liberal and support individual gun rights

12:05am Monday, March 03, 2008

By John Salyers Yes, really. Democrats throughout Ohio and across the country would be well advised to take a closer look at elected officials like Ohio's Governor Ted Strickland and U.S Congressman Zack Space. These gentlemen are both true to the Democrat party and yet are unwavering in their support of protecting our individual right to bear arms. And believe it or not folks, it's working for...

Biased media annoyed that victims dare resist

12:10am Friday, February 29, 2008

By Tim Inwood I have had enough experience with the anti-gun /self-defense bias in the press to begin to wonder if there is something wrong with the water used at major journalism schools in this country - some toxic agent that it wipes out all logical function of the brain. As I read “Use Of Deadly Force: Store Owners Fighting Back” by Brendan Keefe, an article done for WCPO Channel 9 (...

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Jarrod Martin - 70th Ohio House District

12:05am Friday, February 29, 2008

By Larry S. Moore The 70th Ohio House District (representing Xenia, Beavercreek, Fairborn and Bath Township) has a crowded field of entrants in the Republican primary. I’ve met all the candidates. They are all good men with a variety of backgrounds, small business owners, professionals and family men. So what sets Jarrod Martin apart? What made the difference that would cause me to volunteer to...

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Why a convention center in Wilmington was Ohio's safest place last weekend

12:10am Thursday, February 28, 2008

By Chad D. Baus Regular readers of this website will recall that the last time a member of the media from Cincinnati went to a gun show, the results were atrocious. A November 2007 hatchet-job by NBC Cincinnati's Eric Flack contained ridiculous references to everything from 90-round SKS rifles to the Columbine school massacre, all in an effort to aid his gun ban lobby friends in their efforts to...

Op-ed: Even at VT all issues not addressed

12:05am Thursday, February 28, 2008

By Karl Spaulding On April 16, 2007, 32 people were murdered by a fellow student at Virginia Tech. On Feb. 14, there was another college shooting with five people killed. In the week previous to that, several more shootings at colleges and high schools made the news. Anyone who reads the Virginia Tech Review Panel report (available on the Internet through the Virginia governor's Web site) will...

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HB473: Aiding mobility-impaired hunters

12:10am Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Last week, Buckeye Firearms Association volunteer Bob Harsanje and Dave Graham, Chief of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ (ODNR) Division of Wildlife, offered proponent testimony before the Ohio House Finance & Appropriations Committee on House Bill 473. Proposed by State Rep. Peter Ujvagi (D - Toledo), at the urging of and guidance from Harsanje and fellow hunter, HB473 would, among...