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Toledo Blade: Oops, they printed (some of) the truth on guns

10:01am Monday, January 19, 2004

January 18, 2004 Toledo Blade Types and jail terms vary, but crime numbers alike in U.S., Canada BOWLING GREEN - Projecting two images onto a large screen, Rosemary Gartner presented the common perception of the settlers of both the American and Canadian frontiers. One drawing showed an unarmed Canadian mounted policeman, typically known as a "Mountie." The other depicted a gun-slinging cowboy. "...

Miss-Led

8:07am Monday, January 19, 2004

January 18, 2004 Toledo Blade by Marilou Johanek Ohioans held hostage by the Republicans Tom Ridge should issue a red alert just for Ohio. We live in a perpetual state of emergency. Columbus is the cause of our distress. We're being held hostage by the Republican leadership. Officials elected to act in the people's best interest are little more than scoundrels in suits who have only special...

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Editorial: Concealed-carry law long overdue

9:25pm Friday, January 16, 2004

Jan. 9, 2004 Lima News Ohioans finally will be able to carry concealed weapons. The bill isn't perfect, but it is long overdue. Ohio lawmakers have taken far too long in allowing residents of the state the ability to protect themselves. Gov Bob Taft on Thursday signed a bill passed by the Ohio House and Senate to allow Ohioans to carry concealed weapons. The bill has flaws that will need...

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SPIRIT OF THE OHIO PRESS

11:53am Friday, January 16, 2004

This parody of Mark Twain's "Journalism In Tennessee" (c. 1871), was adapted by Dan White, OFCC Membership Coordinator, as a humorous response to the many Rotten Apples and Sour Grapes in the Ohio media. The inveterate liars of the Lorain Morning Journal and Akron Beacon Journal are evidently endeavoring to palm off upon a noble and chivalrous people another of their vile and brutal falsehoods...

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Dear Mr. Hallett...

11:22am Friday, January 16, 2004

The following is written in response to Columbus Dispatch editor Joe Hallett's editorial, "Common sense was checked at the door when gun bill was passed" . You have to be kidding By Gerard Valentino Over the last ten years I've lived in seven states and Ohio is the only place where so called columnists simply refuse to look the facts in the face. Your absurd, unfounded and insulting assertion...

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Despite excellent letters, Cleveland Plain Dealer editors no closer to reality

3:12pm Thursday, January 15, 2004

Even the title of this section proves the editors at the Cleveland Plain Dealer just don't get it. They say readers are "upset by the lists that aren't published." But as you can see from reading, it's not the lists they aren't publishing that has Plain Dealer readers seeing red. Rather, it's the hypocracy revealed in which lists the paper is so vehemently committed to publishing. 01/15/04...

Op-Ed: Right to self-defense is worth preserving

12:39pm Thursday, January 15, 2004

January 15, 2004 Toledo Blade Many Englishmen feel twice victimized, by intruder and government By EILEEN FOLEY As a concealed-carry law moved toward Gov. Taft's desk, and he said "I look forward to signing it," Americans must look appreciatively to Britain and rejoice that we shucked the colonial yoke. Why? Because there self-defense is a crime, burglars have sued homeowners who shoot them, and...

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Pro-concealed carry Joy Padgett sworn in as senator

11:07am Thursday, January 15, 2004

January 15, 2004 Gannett News Service COLUMBUS -- Joy Padgett described Wednesday's Senate session as more like a class reunion than a formal swearing in ceremony. "It has just been a maze of memories," she said, hugging friends and colleagues who mobbed her on the Senate floor. Several dozen lawmakers welcomed Padgett back to the Legislature after she took her oath of office Wednesday,...