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Insisting on 'Carjacker Protection': What does Bob Taft have against children?

5:53pm Monday, June 30, 2003
A bill recognizing Ohioans' right to self-defense is on hold (again), due to the actions of Gov. Bob Taft, a few bureaucrats in the Ohio State Highway Patrol, and a few enablers in the Senate. One of the main issues preventing a compromise is Taft/OSHP-sponsored language that would require people in vehicles with minor occupants to lock up their firearms. This Senate amendment has quickly become...

A public service ad you can't ignore

10:23am Monday, June 30, 2003
The Other Paper in Columbus this week ran this rather one-sided article... ============ Without warning, begins the radio commercial, I can strike, shattering bone, tearing flesh. Crippling, disfiguring and paralyzing my victims. I don't discriminate. I don't care what color, creed, religion, shape, size, or even age a person is. I could get your sister when she's sitting on your porch. Think you...

Columbus robber shot by clerk during robbery

10:19am Monday, June 30, 2003
From WBNS in Columbus : One man is in the hospital, another in jail, and a third on the loose after they tried to rob a Columbus drive-thru carryout. The three men walked into the Lockbourne Express Drive-Thru wearing masks just after midnight, and attempted to rob the store. But two clerks were prepared for the attempt and pulled a gun out from behind the counter. One of the robbers was shot by...

Letters to the Editor: What Bob Taft refuses to understand Pt. II

3:21pm Sunday, June 29, 2003
Leaders in the Senate and representatives of the dominant political party in Ohio, take note: Ohio's self defense rights activists, who are indeed some of the most active and numerous grassroots volunteers in Ohio politics, are speaking loudly and clearly in the days since HB12 was stalled. They have had it with the anti-self-defense actions of Bob Taft, and they are ready to take action against...

Buzz-word: ''Diversity'' definitely present among self-defense rights activists

12:03pm Saturday, June 28, 2003
As we continue to examine the fall-out from two intense weeks of activity in Columbus on HB12, one thing has become readily apparent: No Supreme Court ruling is necessary to enforce diversity among supporters of concealed carry reform. Click on the "Read More..." link below for more. Ambush When the news broke of the Senate/Taft plan to severly amend HB12 and pass it out of the Senate in less...

Enquirer: Police, politics and pistols part of the CCW controversy

9:35am Saturday, June 28, 2003
By Jim Siegel Gannett Columbus Bureau COLUMBUS - Ohio lawmakers once again failed to agree on a way to permit people to carry hidden weapons. Here is an attempt to explain what's going on. Click on the "Read More..." link below for more. How long have state lawmakers been trying to pass a gun bill? Since 1996. It gets reintroduced with each new General Assembly. Why can't lawmakers get it passed...

Editorial: Liberals should stop opposing concealed handguns and start defending

9:24am Saturday, June 28, 2003
Columbus Alive June 26, 2003 Fired Up by J. Caleb Mozzocco It's only a matter of time, so maybe you should start getting used to the idea now: Eventually, it will be completely legal to carry a concealed handgun in the state of Ohio, just as the founding fathers envisioned when they wrote the Second Amendment. Or as the National Rifle Association intended when they started lobbying legislators...

How a Republican (who won't act like one) governor is stalling HB12

by Chad D. Baus
12:23pm Friday, June 27, 2003
Or perhaps a better headline: "How Republican dominance in Columbus is actually preventing the recognition of Ohioans' right to self-defense" The Ohio House has 62 Republican members, and the Senate has 22. To override a governor's veto, only 60 votes are needed in the House, and 20 in the Senate. So why is the media reporting that the Senate's Republican leadership is allowing Bob Taft's veto-...

Who elected Paul McClellan? Who voted for John Born?

by Chad D. Baus
10:12am Thursday, June 26, 2003
When it comes to reforming the state's concealed carry laws, the buck stops with a few unelected state employees. This according to Republican leadership in the Ohio Senate, and Gov. Bob Taft. According to media reports, Senate President Doug White has refused to appoint conferees to a committee to work out differences between the House and Senate's versions of HB12. He says the House needs to do...

Cleveland Plain Dealer and New York Times have a lot common

9:27am Thursday, June 26, 2003
On June 20, the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Doug Clifton, wrote and published a column that contained about as much truth as we now know was contained in articles by New York Times reporter Jayson Blair. Clifton told Plain Dealer readers that HB12 "exempts all gun licensing information from the state's open records laws" and that "the state wants to...prevent you from knowing ...a...

Letters to the Editor: What Bob Taft refuses to understand

6:57am Thursday, June 26, 2003
A number of excellent letters to editor have appeared across the state in recent days. Apparently these pro-self-defense letter writers have a better handle on the facts surrounding the concealed carry reform debate than does their Governor. Click on the "Read More..." link below for summaries and links to the letters. Sciotoville's RICK JONES: Bill allowing concealed weapons is way off target...

Editorial: Taft, Senate blocking rights

Lima News Editorial Board
5:25pm Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Gov. Bob Taft and Ohio Senate President Doug White stubbornly are blocking Ohioans' right to carry concealed weapons. The Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice last week altered a bill passed by the House of Representatives, and now White refuses to name conferees to iron out differences in the bills until the House and Taft resolve their differences. So much for political leadership...

Stalled until fall: Taft insistent on 'Car-jacker Protection Act'

by Chad D. Baus
4:16pm Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Although two news organizations are reporting that HB12 appears to be "dead", most others are suggesting that the legislative summer break will be used as a cool-down period, and that the matter will be readdressed when the General Assembly reconvenes. Representatives from Governor Taft's office and the Legislature ended talks aimed at reaching a compromise Wednesday. Lawmakers are scheduled to...

Taft aides meet with lawmakers about weapons bill

6:49am Wednesday, June 25, 2003
The two lawmakers in charge of getting a concealed weapons bill through the Legislature met with Governor Taft's top aides to try to work out an agreement that will satisfy all sides on the matter. Representative Jim Aslanides, a Coshocton Republican who sponsored the bill, and Senator Steve Austria, a Beavercreek Republican who carried the bill in the Senate, met for about an hour with Taft's...

Seneca Co., OH: Vermont/Alaska for 5 months and counting - ''NO PROBLEMS''

8:35pm Tuesday, June 24, 2003
Sheriff, police chief see little impact from ruling on concealed-carry ban Local law-enforcement officials say a February ruling in Seneca County Common Pleas Court which found Ohio's law against carrying a concealed weapon to be unconstitutional has had little impact on day-to-day operations. Judge Michael P. Kelbley threw out a concealed-weapons charge against a Fostoria woman caught with a gun...

Letter to the Editor: 'Gun lobby' won't arm everybody

8:12pm Tuesday, June 24, 2003
June 24, 2003 In her Sunday guest column arguing against concealed carry in Ohio ( "Permit legislation puts safety at risk" ) Toby Hoover said "the gun lobby's single-minded campaign to arm every man, woman, and child in the United States." Is this truly the intention of the "gun lobby"? Let's think rationally here. Her statement clearly ruins her credibility and shows that she is thinking in an...

Hamilton Co. judge speaks out about Ohio's concealed weapons laws

7:59pm Tuesday, June 24, 2003
A Hamilton County judge who has a history of dismissing concealed weapons charges, says he may continue dismissing the cases unless the state legislature comes up with a "reasonable" law allowing people to carry a gun for self-protection. Click on the "Read More..." link below for more. Judge Robert Ruehlman told 9News exclusively Thursday that current concealed weapons proposals have too many...

OFCC submits opposition detail to House conference committee members

2:20pm Tuesday, June 24, 2003
The following was submitted as a cover letter to House members of the Conference Committee on Am. Sub. HB12, by request, and details our principle points of opposition to Am. Sub. HB12. Accompanying this letter was a line by line commentary on the Senate's changes. Anyone who is contemplating the merits of "taking what we can get" with Am. Sub. HB12 should read this! Serious Problems With...

Website Editor: Back in the Saddle

12:36pm Tuesday, June 24, 2003
As regular readers know, OFCC PAC's Vice Chairman, Chad Baus, publishes the lion's-share of news articles and opinion pieces on this website. A serious family illness took Baus out of town (and away from the Internet) on what became a definitive weekend for self-defense activists on Ohio. Special thanks to the volunteers who stepped in to post essential stories and updates on this website, and...

Car-Jacker Protection: Bob Taft writes newspapers to justify his position

by Chad D. Baus
12:14pm Tuesday, June 24, 2003
This letter to the editor from Governor Bob Taft says it all. Taft likes to claim in one breath that he has been a " strong supporter of the Second Amendment" and all of the "rights that it grants ." Yet he goes on to write an editorial that proves he is more interested in limiting your rights to the best of his ability. Concealed carry with limits OK After reading your recent editorial, I feel...

AGAIN: Senate goes round and round and back again

by Chad D. Baus
10:10am Thursday, June 19, 2003
It's hard to believe the Ohio Senate just voted to return us to the same impass they created with HB274 just 6 months ago. We have a new Senate President, and a new committee chairman. Thanks, in part, to the efforts of the OFCC PAC, the Senate Republican caucus won a super-majority last November. Two more states have become shall-issue right-to-carry states this spring, and Alaska's legislature...

Am. Sub. HB12 to be considered by House today

by Chad D. Baus
8:42am Thursday, June 19, 2003
Amended Substitute House Bill 12 has been added to the House calendar for consideration of Senate amendments. The session will be held today, June 19. UPDATE! The session has been rescheduled for 7:30 p.m. this evening. The purpose for Tuesday's floor action on Am. Sub. HB12 is to consider and vote on whether or not to concur with Senate amendments. A concurrent vote would send the Senate's...

Senate OKs concealed-carry bill

6:09am Thursday, June 19, 2003
A much worked-over bill that would allow Ohioans to conceal weapons passed the Senate yesterday, despite lukewarm support from its backers. It may be changed more before it reaches the governor's desk. Officials from the National Rifle Association - who until Tuesday were the bill's leading proponents - stopped short of opposing the measure but hinted that revisions must be made to win back their...

Amended Substitute HB12 passes Senate, moves to conference committee

by Chad D. Baus
3:10pm Wednesday, June 18, 2003
The Ohio Senate followed up yesterday's surprise committee passage of Sub. HB12 with a floor vote today. House Bill 12 passed with a 22-10 Senate vote. The first amendment was proposed by Sen. Ray Miller (D, Columbus). While addressing his amendment, Miller offered the typical warnings of blood in the streets, and mentioned anecdotal stories about children who are dying in Columbus, and pointed...

Seneca County: Appeal of weapon ruling heard

2:45pm Wednesday, June 18, 2003
When he rose in opposition to Sub. HB12 on the floor of the Senate today, Sen. Eric Fingerhut (D, Cleveland) told Senators that "no one has, in all these debates, shown me a case where the [existing law concerning] affirmative defenses present a problem." Apparently Fingerhut doesn't read the papers much. June 18, 2003 Tiffin Advertiser-Tribune LIMA, Ohio - Seneca County’s prosecutor argued in...

TAFT CONCEALED CARRY PLAN DEEMS CHILDREN UNWORTHY OF SELF DEFENSE

6:19am Wednesday, June 18, 2003
CLEVELAND, June 18, 2003 /PRNewswire/ -- Ohioans For Concealed Carry has informed the Senate of its formal opposition to amended HB12, as passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee for Criminal Justice. In it’s current form, the bill is no longer recognizable as concealed carry reform legislation. HB12 as passed by the Senate Criminal Justice Committee makes Ohio law worse than it is today, by...

Senate Committee passes Amended HB12 in surprise move

12:59pm Tuesday, June 17, 2003
In a surprise move, the Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice today passed an amended House Bill 12 today on a 8-1 vote (vehemently anti-CCW Senator Goodman, was the lone dissenter) Initially, it was reported that the Ohio Senate planned to follow up with an almost immediate floor vote today. That appears now not to be the case. The amended bill is, in almost all respects, identical...

Ohio cities experience violent crime increase

9:48am Tuesday, June 17, 2003
There are two trends in this nation which Ohio is not following, and they are related. First, 35 states now have shall-issue right to carry laws, and another 9 have may-issue laws. Trend #1 is for states to liberalize their laws to make it easier for more law-abiding citizens to carry concealed firearms for self-defense, and as a crime deterrent. Ohio, under Gov. Taft, continues to buck this...

Op-Ed: Less Citizen Opposition Means More Guns

4:01pm Monday, June 16, 2003
On Friday, we were informed that an anti-concealed carry op-ed, written by "Million" Mommer Lori O'Neill, had been printed in the Cleveland Free Times. The letter is not available online, but we did print one of what will likely be many responses from readers . Now, thanks to a self-defense rights supporter and Free Times reader, the O'Neill letter has been transcribed, and can be read below...

CWRU victim's mom: ''Trouble! Call the guys with the guns. No, not THOSE guys'

3:48pm Monday, June 16, 2003
It's such a weak, flawed argument, it's almost not worth addressing. But not quite... Eleanor Helper, who told Senators she became an "instant gun control advocate" when her daughter was shot at Case Western University, has written a letter to the Columbus Dispatch editor. Click on the "Read More..." link below for the letter, and comment. Armed citizens are not a foregone asset Sunday, June 15,...

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