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Battered North Carolina wife refuses to be a victim

12:11pm Saturday, December 04, 2004

December 3, 2004 Associated Press Woman Will Not Be Charged For Shooting Husband Husband Had Cut Phone Line, Parked Far Away WADESBORO, N.C. -- A woman won't face charges after she shot and killed her husband, who had cut her telephone line and used a shovel to break open her door following weeks of domestic violence. Joy Burgess, 26, shot Brian Lee Gathings, 29, with a handgun about 5:30 a.m...

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Op-Ed: Justice Dept. Study Shows 79% of Criminals Obtained Firearms Illegally

12:01pm Saturday, December 04, 2004

By Jim Kouri, Certified Protection Professional Dec 1, 2004 MichNews.com Ninety-five percent of US police commanders and sheriffs believe most criminals obtain their firearms from illegal sources, according to a survey released by the National Association of Chiefs of Police. Coincidentally, data released by the US Department of Justice appears to confirm this claim by our nation's police...

Is it really?

10:52pm Friday, December 03, 2004

At first glance, this headline in the Dec. 3 Dayton Daily News, might give the appearance that the city has had some success with recent crime-fighting efforts: "Miami Valley one of the safest places to walk" And to read the first paragraph, you might think Dayton's bike paths are one of the safer places to walk: Walking is the most dangerous way to get around in the United States, according to a...

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Kidnapped from a state-mandated victim zone

10:17pm Friday, December 03, 2004

November 19, 2004 WCPO.com (9News Cincinnati) A Tri-state woman is safe after a harrowing ordeal that started at a Monroe truck stop and ended in Indiana. Police said the 22-year-old woman was at truck stop bar in Monroe, Ohio, around 2 a.m. Wednesday when she was abducted by two men. The woman text messaged her boyfriend the following words with her cell phone: "They got me Help." After a day...

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STATE-OWNED VICTIM ZONE (again): Woman assaulted, robbed at rest stop

8:44am Friday, December 03, 2004

Deja vu. Last April, NewsNet5 reported a woman in her mid-20s was attacked in the bathroom at rest area off Interstate 77 in Summit County. In that report, which was also picked up by WKYC and the Akron Beacon Journal at the time, troopers said attacks at rest stops are "incredibly rare". "I can't recall where we've had anything of this nature happen at one of these facilities. Thousands of...

Ohio Funds Eddie Eagle GunSafe® Program in Schools for Second Year

12:06am Friday, December 03, 2004

Fairfax, VA—For the second year in a row, the Ohio legislature has appropriated funds so that schools can purchase the National Rifle Association’s Eddie Eagle GunSafe® Program materials to teach gun accident prevention to children in pre-K through the third grade. The Eddie Eagle GunSafe® program has reached 18 million children in all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Created by past NRA...

Defenseless shopper robbed, carjacked after leaving store at ''no-guns'' Strip

5:28pm Thursday, December 02, 2004

The Canton Repository is reporting that a man was robbed at gunpoint and forced into his car Tuesday afternoon as he left a store at The Strip. Thanks to the lobbying efforts of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, who were successful at removing language from HB12 which would have disallowed businesses from banning CCW in their parking lots, the landlord at The Strip has posted "no guns" signs at the...

Ohio Gun Ban Lobby and The Agony of Defeat

4:11pm Thursday, December 02, 2004

When does a legislation creating vanity license plates for the 'National Rifle Association Foundation' in Ohio become a victory for gun ban extremists? When you're gun ban lobbyist Toby Hoover, and when you're desperate to obscure the fact that you've been dealt yet another in a long string of defeats. Hoover, seemingly a one-woman show operating under the guise of the Ohio Coalition Against Gun...