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Ashland's Harris expected to become Ohio Senate president

7:45am Thursday, July 22, 2004

July 21, 2004 Gannett News COLUMBUS — Sen. Bill Harris, R-Ashland, is expected to take over as president of the Ohio Senate in 2005, after his primary rival dropped out of the race today and endorsed him. Harris, 69, a former U.S. Marine, auto dealership owner and state lawmaker for nearly 10 years, is expected to take over for Senate President Doug White, who is term-limited at the end of the...

Police fight for exception to gun limits off duty

7:31am Thursday, July 22, 2004

July 22, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer Columbus - Restrictions on the right of off-duty police officers to carry concealed weapons could create headaches, Bob Beck, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolman's Association, said Wednesday. Beck reacted to an opinion released Monday by Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro that said off-duty officers can carry concealed weapons at any time in any...

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Workplace Violence: What No-Guns Signs or Policies Will NEVER Prevent

11:03pm Wednesday, July 21, 2004

July 16, 2004 USA TODAY In an average week in U.S. workplaces, one employee is killed and at least 25 are seriously injured in violent assaults by current or former co-workers. Many of those attacks might have been prevented. In nearly eight of 10 cases, killers left behind clear warning signs --sometimes showing guns to co-workers, threatening their bosses or talking about attacking. But in the...

Virginia Open Carry Still Making Waves

9:37pm Wednesday, July 21, 2004

Where were these elite media-handwringers when thousands of openly carrying Ohioans took to the streets in a mass action to protest a ban on their self-defense rights? Oh yeah, they, and even some Ohio media outlets, were avoiding the subject, lest they reveal just how much public outrage there was at Ohio's 150 year-old concealed carry ban. July 16, 2004 Washington Post Gun-Toting in Va...

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Op-Ed: It’s Time For Some Gun-Rich Zones

3:55pm Wednesday, July 21, 2004

Sometimes a bit of humor is just as effective at making a point as are serious discourses on violent crime statistics or criminal protection zone robberies... American Handgunner September/October 2004 By John Conner I’ve just about had it with this “Gun-Free Zone” crap, you know? True, I live in a fairly sissy-rich environment but, usually, the only visible effects are too many restaurants with...

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''Quiet Revolution''

8:59am Wednesday, July 21, 2004

July 20, 2004 Reuters Guns Lobby Racks Up Legislative Gains Across U.S. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The powerful U.S. gun lobby seems poised for victory in a high profile battle to end a ban on some assault weapons and experts say it has also been piling up numerous quiet victories at the state level. A federal ban on certain military-style semi-automatic weapons enacted in 1994 is due to expire on...

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Harris, Gardner mum on who will be Senate president

7:57am Wednesday, July 21, 2004

July 21, 2004 Columbus Dispatch Randy Gardner was next in line to be House speaker when he was forced out of the House by term limits in 2000, so when the opportunity arrived to be Senate president, he wasn’t about to pass it up. Bill Harris was on the verge of being House speaker when he was blindsided by Larry Householder in 2000, so when the Senate presidency opened up earlier this month, he...

86-year-old scares off teen thief

7:33am Wednesday, July 21, 2004

July 20, 2004 Newark Advocate PATASKALA -- Eighty-six year-old Alice Hill isn't what you would typically think of as a crime-fighter, but she did stop a felony in progress on Friday, chasing off a burglar a fraction of her age. Hill was sitting in her son's Lynns Road residence watching the 700 Club on television when an unidentified white male kicked in the front door. "I didn't have time to be...