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Letter to the Editor: Editorial just gun-control propaganda

8:16am Monday, September 27, 2004

September 26, 2004 Dayton Daily News Re "Bush gun pledge just weasel words," Sept. 10: The sunset clause on the assault weapons ban was put into the legislation for the simple reason that many rightly believed there was no need for it. Now that the 10 years has elapsed, I challenge the Dayton Daily News to provide evidence that there is a need to renew it. The editorial's hyperbole about "...

'Patient' robber calm & cool in ''no-guns'' banks

8:11am Monday, September 27, 2004

The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that a 'patient' robber has quietly been robbing banks in northeast Ohio. The robber has hit the same Fifth-Third bank, inside a Tops supermarket, on two separate occasions within four weeks, advising tellers he has a gun. In an August 23 robbery, the 24-year-old female teller at the Fifth Third Bank was handed a note and the robber "stared at her as if he...

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Mad science: Gun-law demise worries ''health experts''

7:04am Sunday, September 26, 2004

Health experts are concerned that the demise of the assault weapons ban will result in more gunshot victims and increased trauma costs, CBS.MarketWatch.Com reported Sept. 22. Officials said that the ban helped to make injury prevention a national priority. But with the expiration of the ban, "we're going back to viewing this as a purely criminal-justice issue and not a public-health issue," said...

Op-Ed: John Kerry and assault weapons: Takes one to own one?

8:13am Saturday, September 25, 2004

September 22, 2004 The Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, VA) CHASTISING PRESIDENT BUSH for allowing the ban on assault weapons to lapse, Sen. Kerry charged in a speech on Sept. 10 that "America's streets will not be safe because of a choice George Bush is making" and that "in the al-Qaida manual on terror, they were telling people to go out and buy assault weapons, to come to America and buy...

''Mr. Hero'' robbed at knife point

7:44am Saturday, September 25, 2004

A Mr. Hero restaurant in Mentor is listed among the unsafe businesses in OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed database . It is not yet known if this particular Mr. Hero was posted as well. September 25, 2004 The Akron Beacon Journal is reporting that a man attacked a manager of a Mr. Hero restaurant from behind and robbed the business at knifepoint Thursday night. According to the newspaper,...

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Child in Akron opens door for armed robbers

7:39am Saturday, September 25, 2004

September 25, 2004 The Akron Beacon Journal is reporting that a child opened the door for two masked men who committed a home invasion Friday. The Akron Police Department told the newspaper a child at a home in the 800 block of Fried Street opened a side door around 8 a.m. Police say two men armed with guns entered the residence and threatened a 28-year-old man and two children, 7 and 10...

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Kerry shotgun still in WV; Democrat hasn't bothered taking steps to bring home

8:16am Friday, September 24, 2004

A September 23, 2004 article in the Charleston (WV) Daily Mail revealed that the 12 ga. Remington Model 11-87 which was presented to John Kerry at a rally earlier this month has never left the state of West Virginia where the photo op took place. Presidential candidate John Kerry never took home a semi-automatic shotgun that stirred controversy when he accepted it at a Boone County rally,...

Cincinnati's Northside Bank posts ''no-guns'' sign on outdoor ATM!

7:53am Friday, September 24, 2004

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 01:12:06 -0400 Subject: Concealed weapons notice I pulled up to the ATM tonight at Northside Bank on Colerain Ave. On the front of the ATM was a sticker stating, the carrying of a concealed handgun is prohibited at this ATM. Related Stories: Medina victim sues man who robbed her at First Merit ATM Victim Zone: Armed robbers strike on & near near UC again