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Police warn women of attacker in Lima

8:20am Tuesday, November 23, 2004

November 20, 2004 Toledo Blade LIMA, Ohio - Police are warning women walking near downtown to be wary of a man whom investigators say assaulted two women. Earlier this week a woman reported being attacked in the 200 block of North Main Street, and another was assaulted at Market and Elizabeth streets. In both cases, the man approached the women and asked what time it was before assaulting them...

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Headline: Aiming to Change Image

8:19am Tuesday, November 23, 2004

Advocates for concealed weapons laws have some points to make November 13, 2004 Chicago Tribune Howard Witt, Tribune Southwest Bureau Chief, recently on assignment in Phoenix PHOENIX -- Depending on your point of view, the Shrine Auditorium in downtown Phoenix was either the safest or most dangerous place in the nation one Saturday night this fall. Inside the main banquet hall, some 400 assorted...

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Letter to the Editor: Consider every gun loaded

8:18am Tuesday, November 23, 2004

November 20, 2004 Dayton Daily News Re: the Nov. 16 Nicholas Kristof commentary "Fresh thinking on guns needed" : Kristof says that you can tell if a camera is loaded just by looking at it, and that the same should hold true to a gun. The only similarity between a camera and a gun is that they both use the term "shoot." Every gun, and I mean every gun, should always be considered loaded until...

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Signs come down: (Yet another) ''small success''

4:31pm Saturday, November 20, 2004

----- Original Message ----- From: Frank Pavlovcic Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 Subject: small success... Hi, src="http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/files/BlackRiverHistoricalSociety.jpg" height=250 width=200 border=0 align="right"> I'm a member of OFCC and I would like to report a small success. I belong to the Black River Historical Society in Lorain. A few months ago I noticed a sign in the...

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Throats Slashed At Ohio Barbershop

4:16pm Saturday, November 20, 2004

November 18, 2004 NBC4.com Columbus Two people were slashed across the throat in an incident Thursday night at a local barbershop, NBC 4's Mike Bowersock reported. The slashings happened at about 7 p.m. at the First Clips at the corner of College and Livingston avenues. One man, believed to be a barber, was found inside the shop. His throat had been slashed with a razor from ear to ear. The 28-...

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Dr. Condoleeza Rice speaks out on gun control

10:43pm Friday, November 19, 2004

In a November 17, 2004 story published in her home state of Alabama , Dr. Condoleeza Rice, current National Security Advisor and recently-nominated Secretary of State, spoke out on how growing up in a segregated South formed her views on many issues, including gun control: Rice, 50, head of the National Security Council, was raised in Birmingham by parents who believed strongly in religion and...

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Sheriff Karnes STILL doesn't understand the law on TELs?

4:46pm Friday, November 19, 2004

The Ohio Supreme Court could not have been more clear. The Court was so clear even the anti-CCW media reported it correctly: FRANKLIN CO. SHERIFF JIM KARNES WAS WRONG TO DEMAND "PROOF OF NEED" FOR A T.E.L. APPLICATION. Apparently there is one person left in the state who still doesn't get it: Nov. 18, 2004, Columbus Dispatch : [Karnes] has issued three emergency permits, but all three have...

Op-Ed: How I learned to love firearms

4:00pm Friday, November 19, 2004

November 18, 2004 Slate.com Guinea Get Your Gun By Emily Yoffe I pressed the Beretta AL391 Urika deep into my shoulder and against my cheek, as if gripping a shotgun stock were as natural as holding the strap of my purse. I said, "Pull," in a firm yet casual way, to convey that, sure I drove here in a Volvo, and the radio in the Volvo is tuned to NPR, but I'm actually the kind of woman who loves...