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Politics, paranoia fuel war of words over guns

8:44am Tuesday, October 19, 2004

October 18, 2004 Albany (NY) Times Union It was July 1998. Newspapers were full of stories about a seeming rash of shootings in schools. About 40 representatives of law enforcement, public health and other fields were summoned to Washington, D.C., to talk about ways to deal with gun violence in America. Alan Lizotte, a University at Albany criminologist, recalls with certain satisfaction the way...

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Attacks raise concerns on OU campus

8:32am Tuesday, October 19, 2004

October 14, 2004 Athens News A string of sexual assaults on campus in the last month has raised concerns over the safety of students, particularly females, on the streets after dark. According to three separate crime reports posted in residence halls and other student areas by the Ohio University Police Department, all of the females involved in the incidents were able to flee the scenes...

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FBI: Ohio bank heists with violent component on the rise

7:43am Monday, October 18, 2004

October 17, 2004 Columbus Dispatch Robbery trend worries officials It’s not just the increase in bank robberies this year across central Ohio that has officials concerned. It’s how the heists are being carried out. There have been 95 robberies so far this year in and around Columbus, compared with 64 for the same period last year, according to the FBI. "Typically (80 percent) are nice and quiet...

Police say [''no-guns''] gas station was robbed

7:24am Monday, October 18, 2004

On October 15, 2004, the Mansfield News Journal reported that Mansfield police are investigating an armed robbery at yet another business on OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed database . The newspaper report says a 26-year-old woman at BP Duke & Duchess, 595 S. Main St., told police a man walked into the store at 6:17 a.m. He pulled out a gun and demanded money, police said. The man fled the...

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Plain Dealer's Clifton a part of Ohio Supreme Court PRIVACY Subcommittee

8:11am Sunday, October 17, 2004

The following information was submitted by a reader to the www.ohioccw.org website. It appears that Doug Clifton, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer is a member of the Privacy Subcommittee of the Supreme Court of Ohio. This is very disturbing given his actions violating the privacy of Northeast Ohio CCW holders. http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/ACTC/subcommittees/privacy/Privacy_Roster.pdf It is...

Britain: A gun crime every five hours since shooting of Danielle

8:01am Sunday, October 17, 2004

If he succeeds in fooling gun owners, and is elected, this is what those who support John Kerry for President will be asking him to do to America's gun laws - disarm the victims, and even disarm the police! October 16, 2004 The (UK) Times Online As a man faces court charged with murdering Danielle Beccan, a Times survey finds that shootings are becoming commonplace. The scale of gun crime in...

Two Ohio appearances for Dr. John R. Lott this month!

7:52am Sunday, October 17, 2004

John Lott, author of "More Guns, Less Crime" and "The Media Bias Against Guns" will be in Ohio for two debates against what will no doubt prove to be uninformed, emotion-based gun ban extremists. Oct. 26, Ohio State University: Dr. Lott will be on OSU's campus to debate Jim Kessler, Americans for Gun Safety Policy Director. The focus of the debate will be: "Should Government in a Free Society...

Applicant: Lorain Co. CHL application logjam breaks?

4:52pm Friday, October 15, 2004

The following message was posted by a subscriber to OFCC's CCW-Talk discussion list. Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:02:49 -0400 Subject: [ccw-talk] Lorain County - quick turnaround! Greetings, Just wanted to give a heads-up to everybody regarding Lorain County Sheriff's office. Turned in my app on 9/22, got call last friday 10/8. That's 17 days! Hat's off to the folks at Lorain County SO. Very professional...