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Meigs Co. Sheriff will go it alone starting Saturday

3:23pm Friday, June 13, 2003

Consider the first two paragraphs of this Columbus Dispatch article, and ask yourself why this newspaper's editorial board continues to advocate a ban on a practical self-defense law for Ohioans. Thursday, June 12, 2003 "If there’s big trouble during the wee hours of the night, Meigs County Sheriff Ralph Trussell warns it may require a few rings to rouse him from bed and a minute or so for him to...

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Letter to the Editor: Protect right of self-defense

12:44pm Friday, June 13, 2003

June 13, 2003 To the editor of the Mansfield News Journal: Regarding the May 26 article, "Bill limits backyard guns," which refers to House Bill 180. If you are a law-abiding gun owner, you need to call your state representatives and tell them to vote this bill down. This bill would do more damage to your gun rights than the Clinton Gun Ban and the Brady Bill. House Bill 180 would allow township...

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Youngstown ''assault weapons'' ban gets first public hearing

10:47am Friday, June 13, 2003

Wednesday's public hearing in city council chambers on a proposed ban on possession or sale of assault firearms brought out raw emotion on both sides. More than four dozen people attended the unusual pair of hearings, arranged by Artis Gillam Sr., D-1st, council's safety committee chairman. Massive feedback on the proposed law led him to set aside two hours in the afternoon and two hours in the...

Alltel 911 cell calls misdirected to Kent

1:02pm Thursday, June 12, 2003

File this under the "only you can protect you" category: 6.11.03 The Kent Police Department recently found itself answering misdirected 911 calls from as far away as southern Ohio. The calls came from Alltel cellular phone users. When a call was pointed to a certain number -- in this case, 911 -- it was being incorrectly translated by the local telephone company, SBC, said Nina Gagliardo,...

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Letter to the Editor: ''Gov. Taft is right!''

11:40am Thursday, June 12, 2003

An anti-self-defense letter to the editor from Toby Hoover has been published by the Middletown Journal. The letter contains many of the same false statements Hoover made in Senate testimony last month. Commentary by Chad D. Baus inserted in blue . 6.12.03 ‘Right choice for Ohio’ Gov. Bob Taft stated, after the Columbine massacre in 1999, that he would veto concealed weapons legislation if law...

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Alaska's new concealed carry law

10:17am Thursday, June 12, 2003

Law allows Alaskans to carry concealed guns without permit By MIKE CHAMBERS Associated Press Writer JUNEAU--Alaskans will no longer need a permit to carry a concealed weapon under a bill signed into law Wednesday. In signing the bill, Gov. Frank Murkowski lauded the work of the Legislature and the National Rifle Association in protecting the Second Amendment rights of Alaskans. The bill would...

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Oh, if only they knew how effective this would be...

12:45pm Wednesday, June 11, 2003

Turn on your speakers and listen to how in flight announcements SHOULD be done .

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Tale of Two Cities: 20th Toledo bank robbery this year; Louisville robber killed

12:12pm Wednesday, June 11, 2003

A man with dreadlocks yesterday robbed the National City Bank branch at 3890 Monroe St. of an undisclosed amount of money in Toledo's 20th holdup of a financial institution this year. The man entered the bank about 10:20 a.m. and handed a teller a note demanding money. The teller gave him the cash, and then fled the branch in an easterly direction. No weapon was seen, and the robber didn't...