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Letter to the Editor: Kerry is very weak on gun rights

October 31, 2004 Toledo Blade John Kerry a hunter and strong supporter of the Second Amendment? His voting record in the Senate sure does not reflect that. He never voted with gun owners or for that matter any issues that benefited hunters. And when he and John Edwards leave the campaign trail to cast their votes for the semi-automatic weapons ban, that certainly says to me that they are not the...

Letter to the Editor: Kerry has voted to ban guns 51 times

October 25, 2004 Marion Star This letter is in response of "Setting the Record Straight" in Monday's edition, Oct. 11, and Sunday's edition, Oct. 17, 2004. Sen. John Kerry is not for the 2nd Amendment at all. He has voted for all gun bans that have come up on the floor. In fact, 51 times altogether. Check the record. He wants to take away our right to bear arms. A disarmed American that does not...

Arkansas voters ''get it''. Do Ohioans?

October 24, 2004 Arkansas News Bureau Guns a big issue in Arkansas By Rob Moritz LITTLE ROCK - Hunting is a major sport in Arkansas, especially in the 1st and 4th congressional districts of its eastern and southern regions, which may explain why voters there see guns as a major issue in the race. A new poll for the Arkansas News Bureau and Stephens Media Group found that 60 percent of voters...

Letter to the Editor: Kerry pandering, not hunting

October 27, 2004 Newark Advocate John Kerry runs around with a shotgun under his arm on the campaign trail for a good reason: Just as he is trying to fool minorities into believing his lies to get their vote, he is trying to fool gun owners into believing he is pro-Second Amendment to get their votes also. Here are some facts on his record: Kerry co-sponsored a bill that would ban all semi-...

Driver charged in combine road rage case

The Celina Daily Standard is reporting to day that David P. Rinderle Jr., 34, 8075 Old Town Road, (Celina), has been charged with menacing in connection with an apparent case of road rage involving himself and a 70 year-old farmer driving a John Deere combine. According to the story, Mercer County Sheriff's deputies responded to Riley Road, north of Oldtown Road, at 3:15 p.m. Oct. 10 on reports...

KEY RACE: Anderson campaign finances in question

The following press release was sent out by 2004 OFCC PAC endorsee Joy Padgett's campaign earlier this week. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, October 25, 2004 ANDERSON CAMPAIGN FINANCES IN QUESTION (Columbus, Ohio) - Monies provided to fund the state senate campaign of Terry Anderson may violate Ohio campaign finance laws it was discovered this week. Following the required disclosure of campaign...

Police hunt for man raping males

The Cincinnati Enquirer is reporting today that Cincinnati police are looking for a man they suspect has raped two men and a 14-year-old boy in a case veteran investigators say is the first they can remember in which a rapist attacks males. The newspaper reports Capt. Vince Demasi, investigations commander, says detectives don't have much to go on, beyond the rarity of male rape victims...

Letters to the Editor: Is Kerry trying to camouflage his gun position?

October 27, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer News organizations across the state and the nation fell head over heels to cover John Kerry's "hunting trip" in Ohio as if he were an avid hunter. Not a single news report called the event what it truly was: a photo opportunity intended to mislead the masses. Bill Clinton claimed the National Rifle Association cost Al Gore the 2000 election. Kerry's...

Letter to the Editor: Attack on Second Amendment threatens all

October 19, 2004 Marietta Times Edited to topic In answer to a letter to the editor published July 9, those elected in the Senate who want to usurp our constitutional right, namely the Second Amendment, are as follows - Clinton, Kerry, Kennedy, Feinstein, Schumer, Lautenberg, and, of course, there are a few others. The Second Amendment stipulated in the Constitution states that the citizens have...

Why NOT to vote for these Cleveland-area candidates...

Michael DeBose (D), House District 12 Michael DeBose told the Cleveland Plain Dealer it's tough to be a Democrat in the Republican-controlled Ohio legislature... He was appointed to fill the vacant Ohio House of Representatives District 12 seat in 2002. DeBose opposes allowing people to carry concealed weapons. "I have seen too many people killed by guns over the years," he told the Plain Dealer...

Ross Co. Sheriff finds another use for CHL equipment

The Chillicothe Gazette is reporting that Ross Co. Sheriff Ron Nichols has found yet another important use for the equipment sheriffs purchased to issue concealed handgun licenses. His office is making good use of the machinery it purchased to make concealed- carry weapon permits by making photo identifications of each poll worker who will be working on November 2. The ID cards are created in...

IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU

Police: Armed Man Attempts To Abduct Woman Outside Mall A search is under way in Stark County for a man who tried to abduct a woman outside of a mall, reported NewsChannel5 . Police in Jackson Township told reporters a 20-year-old woman had just left Belden Village Tuesday afternoon when she was approached by a man with a gun. Police said the man forced her into her car and began to drive away. "...

New bill drives questions re: OFCC PAC's endorsement of Rep. Daniel Sferra

Ohioans For Concealed Carry PAC has been inundated with questions about its endorsement of Rep. Daniel Sferra (D) for the 64th District. The questions came after Sferra made a bizarre election-eve move of introducing legislation that would allow municipalities to trump state law by rendering Ohioans defenseless in parks, on jogging trails, or any "other outdoor premises or property owned, leased...

How chasing the ''gun guy'' image is hurting Kerry in swing states

By Chad D. Baus Since the Democrat party has based its entire hate-Bush campaign on Michael Moore conspiracy theories, I would like to offer up one more theory for them to chew on: The Clintonistas John Kerry hired in September to rescue his campaign want Hillary to run in '08, and they are using the gun issue to sabotage John Kerry in swing states. Though some Democrats have no trouble believing...

Youngstown Mayor McKelvey: John Kerry Can’t Camouflage His Record

October 21, 2004 YOUNGSTOWN, OH – Democrat Youngstown Mayor George McKelvey today issued the following statement regarding John Kerry's hunt earlier this morning in Youngstown, Ohio: “The new camouflage jacket that supposed ‘avid’ hunter John Kerry wore today can’t hide him from a voting record that has earned him the distinction of being named the most liberal member of the United States Senate...

OFCC/ PAC represented at Niehaus Fundraiser in Senate District 14

By Rick Jones, OFCC Senate District 14 Coordinator A fundraiser was held at the Ye Olde Lantern Restaurant at Second and Court Streets in Portsmouth on October 19th for Rep. Tom Niehaus. Rep. Niehaus, a 2004 OFCC PAC endorsee, was the winner of the Republican primaries held earlier this year and is hoping to fill the seat of Ohio Senate Dist. 14, which is being vacated by term-limited Ohio Senate...

What John Kerry did was not hunting - it was killing

by Larry S. Moore Of all John Kerry's flip-flops, Thursday's staged hunting trip in Ohio was certainly one of the biggest FLOPS. The effort to portray him as a "guy's guy" showed instead that John Kerry is still an elitist. Most of us struggle somewhat to get quality private habitat to hunt. It takes sometimes years to have a relationship with a land owner for hunting access. Because of his...

Disgruntled employee attacks workers; exits, reloads, returns

The St. Louis Post Dispatch is reporting that a disgruntled former employee opened fire with a shotgun on defenseless workers at Beltservice Corp. in a St. Louis suburb yesterday. As many as 130 workers milled about as the gunman opened fire, the paper reported The gunman fired at least five times before going outside to a van to reload . He walked inside to fire again, notes the paper. After a...

Letter to OFCC: A real choice for gun owners (?)

Fri Oct 22 07:21:22 2004 I am a visitor to your site daily. I usually like reading the stories and the armed citizen articles. I have one large problem with it though. that problem is the pro- Bush anti- Kerry rhetoric. The truth of the matter is that they both favor more gun control and have equally bad records on gun control. there is a candidate that shares your views though and his name is...

Letter to the Editor: Kerry would sign UN treaty treaty outlawing firearms

October 21, 2004 Newark Advocate About 500 organizations around the world, with the help from the United Nations and American politicians, are working to ban our guns. The first step will be an international treaty outlawing firearms enacted by the United Nations in July of 2006. This treaty -- the first step on their gun ban agenda before gun confiscation -- is a time bomb ticking underneath...

Kerry: sitting duck

October 21, 2004 Warren Tribune Chronicle By STEPHEN ORAVECZ AUSTINTOWN - Shirley Williams of Hubbard said Wednesday that she loves her gun and called the Democratic presidential candidate a backstabber. Williams, 71, was one of about two dozen people who attended a news conference at the Austintown Sports Center, where two representatives of the Bush-Cheney campaign said the president was the...

After staging photo-op ''hunt'', Kerry refuses to carry his own bird

October 21, 2004 Associated Press BOARDMAN, Ohio - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said he bagged a goose on his swing-state hunting trip Thursday, but his real target was the voters who may harbor doubts about him. Kerry returned after a two-hour hunting trip wearing a camouflage jacket and carrying a 12-gauge shotgun, but someone else carried the bird he said he shot. "I'm too lazy...

Positive it'll never happen to you? Then don't get a CHL.

You carry jumper cables, a spare tire, a first aid kit, extra blankets, flashlights and a fire extinguisher in your car. You wear your seatbelt. You buy homeowners insurance, medical insurance, vehicle insurance, uninsured motorists insurance, and emergency tow insurance. So why not carry the best-available tool of self-defense? These women were all lucky . Most abductees don't get to come home...

Letter to the Editor: Kerry is threat to gun owners

October 20, 2004 Zanesville Times Recorder OK, folks in the central Ohio area, here's the thing; The National Rifle Association has, as I sit here in front of the computer, just announced that it is endorsing George Bush for president. align="right"> I agree with them. The Democratic ticket can be characterized as the "most anti-gun ticket for president of the U.S. ever to be run for the...

Gunman takes cash from ''no-guns'' credit union

On October 20, 2004, the Marion Star reported that Marion police and the FBI agents from the Mansfield office are investigating an armed robbery at yet another business on OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed database . According to the article, a white male entered the Marion Community Credit Union Inc., 810 Kenton Ave., Oct. 19 at 1:22 p.m., brandished a semi-automatic handgun and demanded that...

2 weeks till election - What is different this time around?

Ohio is a "battleground" state. We are not only one of the important states, but in fact the most important state in the Union for this year's Presidential race. Both Republicans and Democrats are bringing in massive amounts of people and money to our state. There is a huge amount of information, and even more misinformation. So what? There are 80 million gun owner in the country. "Just" 4...

FOP: Police Call on Kerry to Stop Misrepresenting Their Support

October 14, 2004 US Newswire WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today Chuck Canterbury, the President of the nation's largest police labor organization, called on John Kerry to stop making misleading statements regarding his support from the law enforcement community. Both on the campaign trail and in Wednesday night's debate in Tempe, AZ, Senator Kerry has alluded that he has the support of...

OH Sportsmen for Bush rally to counter Kerry's latest photo op

COLUMBUS, OH – The Ohio Sportsmen For Bush Coalition has announced a press conference will be held (today) Wednesday, October 20 at 1:00 p.m. at th Austintown Sports Center in Youngstown. Former State Representative Democrat Michael Verich and Former Chief of the Ohio Division of Wildlife Mike Budzik will be joined by several other Ohioans in making remarks on John Kerry’s upcoming duck hunting...

NRA: ''We've found no evidence that [Kerry] owns a hunting license.''

URGENT! Like your grandfather's M1 Garand or Carbine? Like carrying your favorite semi-auto shotgun into the fields on a hunt? Like admiring collector guns like the Browning Auto-5? John Kerry wants to take your guns - period . There exists a bill, right now, in the U.S. Senate, which would go far beyond the anything the Clintons did to threaten your freedom. Click here to read the summary of S...

Toledo's gun control laws are a proven failure

October 17, 2004 Toledo Blade Islands of danger, safety shape map of Toledo crime statistics The differences between Helen Weaver and Jackie Lothery are obvious. Helen, 79, is white and lives in a mobile home in suburban Northwood. Jackie, 51, is black and resides in a 19th century, wood-frame home in Toledo's central city. But the women do share something: the heightened prospect of being a...

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