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White flag? Jointogether.org will no longer publish gun violence news...

10:06am Monday, May 23, 2005
Jointogether.org, which was originally founded to combat substance abuse, began supporting gun control efforts after having received funding by the anti-gun Joyce Foundation in 1996, and again by the David Bohnett Foundation in 2001. Last week, JoinTogether.org announced that, as of May 30, it would cease its practice of publishing gun violence news. Since no explanation is given, this...

Wild Boar Blamed for Golf Course Damage

9:40am Monday, May 23, 2005
Less than a month after rabid coyotes attacked several people in a Cleveland MetroPark, Dayton’s WDTN.com reported further proof last week that concealed carry in parks is a necessary defense against (two AND four-legged) predators: From the story: Monday we told you about bobcat sightings in Germantown. It's a different story in Preble and Butler counties though. Officials at Hueston Woods State...

Dayton Daily News publishes final report on CHL Records Roundtable

3:49pm Sunday, May 22, 2005
On May 5, the Dayton Daily News asked about 20 people to participate in a roundtable discussion about the issues of concealed handgun licenses and the public's right to know vs. an individual's right to privacy. The roundtable was part of a national effort sponsored by the Associated Press Managing Editors to encourage newspapers to discuss open government and freedom of information issues with...

One more thing before I leave to serve my country…

9:47am Sunday, May 22, 2005
----------Original Message---------- Date: Fri 20 May 2005 From: Justin S. Subject: Letter to Business Owners Hi, I am an NRA instructor and teach the CCW course. I am deploying to Afghanistan on Sunday as a Captain in the Army. Before I leave, I wanted to leave something to help continue the fight for the right to bear arms. Although I see a lot of the "No weapons" signs coming down, I still see...

Zogby Poll on Terrorism and Guns

9:42am Sunday, May 22, 2005
www.JohnRLott.com Since the 9/11 tragedy, anti-gun forces have tried to use the threat of terrorism to disarm law-abiding sportsmen and gun owners. Asked whether they agreed or disagreed that banning guns would reduce the threat from terrorists, poll respondents disagreed by a margin of 75 percent. Only one in five supported the notion, and five percent were not sure. Zogby polled 1,009 likely...

CCW news from the States

9:40am Sunday, May 22, 2005
D.C.: Senate to pursue gun ownership law for city Some Senate Republicans are preparing to launch an assault on the District's gun laws. Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cronyn of Texas and George Allen of Virginia are signing on as sponsors of the District of Columbia Personal Protection Act of 2005. The measure would repeal the District's prohibition against most private handgun ownership...

Canada: Crime rate 66% higher in Prairie Provinces than in 4 bordering US states

9:37am Sunday, May 22, 2005
April 26, 2005 News Release Today, Saskatchewan M.P., Garry Breitkreuz, Conservative Firearms Critic, released two Library of Parliament research papers that concluded: ”Comparing average crime rates for 2003 in the three prairie provinces and in the four bordering states as presented in the report for those crimes that are similarly defined and measured in both countries, we found that, in total...

Man charged after two UDF robberies and high-speed chase

8:31am Saturday, May 21, 2005
One day after a school teacher was carjacked at a Cincinnati UDF store, WHIOTV.com reported that a man is facing charges this week, having been accused of robbing two United Dairy Farmers stores and leading Dayton police on a high-speed chase. From the story: A grand jury indicted Elmer Hampton on charges of robbery by force, failure to comply and felonious assault on a police officer. Hampton...

Medical errors still claiming many lives

8:29am Saturday, May 21, 2005
USAToday is reporting that a newly-release study shows as many as 98,000 Americans still die each year because of medical errors, despite an unprecedented focus on patient safety over the last five years. From the story: Significant improvements have been made in some hospitals since the Institute of Medicine released a landmark report in 2000 that revealed many thousands of Americans die each...

LTE: Restrictive concealed-carry law offers travelers in Ohio little help

8:24am Saturday, May 21, 2005
May 19, 2005 Cleveland Plain Dealer Stopping along the highway leaves anyone in peril. A Pennsylvania doctor, his wife and a relative stopped on the Ohio Turnpike to change drivers. A car pulled up behind their vehicle, and a man got out, demanding money. Then he shot and killed the doctor and drove off. Had the doctor been armed, instead of retrieving his wallet for the robber, he might have...

Op-Ed: Time to Control Dangerous Assault Journalists

8:21am Saturday, May 21, 2005
By Alan Gottlieb Seventeen confirmed dead and hundreds injured. This was not the work of some stereotypical lunatic with a gun, but the handiwork of a careless reporter who must have graduated from the Dan Rather School of investigative journalism. Now that Newsweek has lived up to the high standard of prevarication established by Jayson Blair at the New York Times and by Janet Cooke at Newsweek’...

LTE: Take fight to those with illegal weapons

8:18am Saturday, May 21, 2005
May 18, 2005 Toledo Blade The silence is deafening. That is, I haven't heard of any comments or apologies from the anti-concealed-carry or anti-gun hawks who predicted road rage and wild west shoot-outs throughout the state when the CCW law was enacted a year ago. However, after a year, not one CCW citizen has been cited for any reason. But the shootings continue as non-law-abiding crooks,...

Ladies: Protect thyself!

8:17am Saturday, May 21, 2005
Toledo: Police unveil sketch of assault suspect Toledo police released a sketch yesterday of a man accused of sexually assaulting a 42-year-old East Toledo woman after approaching her with a knife last week. The woman was walking home from a house in the 1500 block of Albert Street in East Toledo when she approached the viaduct on East Broadway about 7:30 p.m. May 12. The suspect approached her...

When awarding citizen heroes, why did Toledo PD forget the CHL-holder?

3:10am Friday, May 20, 2005
The Toledo Blade is reporting that Toledo police held a ceremony this week to honor 19 citizens for acts that helped police solve numerous crimes in 2004. Conspicuously missing, however, is an award for a man who helped police solve crimes by using his legally carried firearm . From the story: "Help me," the 12-year-old girl mouthed to John Neal through the window of a car driving away from his...

Scope of Best Buy's discriminatory practices against gun owners still not known

3:04am Friday, May 20, 2005
As OFCC first reported on Monday, the posting of "no-guns" signs at Ohio Best Buy stores has been confusing from the start. From store managers who offered opposing excuses, to the appearance that the retail chain had been mislead by national office materials company g.Neil via the labor law "compliance kits" the company sells to Ohio businesses, there has been no clear sense of who ordered the...

Cleveland City Council aims low in attempt to keep kids from guns

2:56am Friday, May 20, 2005
Cleveland’s NewsChannel5 is reporting that Cleveland council members are waging a new campaign to stop gun violence, and it appears as though they are prepared to walk down the same tried and true (and failed) path of efforts that have been occurring for years. From the story: Many Cleveland residents are afraid and concerned about the increasing gun violence in their neighborhoods. At a public...

Just ''drive off'' if attacked in your car? More defenseless Ohioans get Borned

2:51am Friday, May 20, 2005
With every new victim who is attacked in their car comes a fresh reminder of just how horribly irresponsible was the advice of Ohio State Highway Patrol Capt. John Born in 2003 when explaining why the OSHP claimed people didn’t need to carry a firearm in their motor vehicle: “We do not want a loaded firearm readily accessible to the driver of a car,'' said Born. When presented with the fact that...

More victims of crime in places where guns are banned

2:47am Friday, May 20, 2005
Police Suspect String Of UC Robberies Related Ohio law bans firearms on college campuses, preventing students their right to self-defense Two suspects are in police custody in connection with a robbery on the University of Cincinnati's Clifton campus. Both Cincinnati and UC campus police are trying to determine whether a string of robberies near the campus are related. Police say on Tuesday...

Petro Releases First Year Concealed Carry Statistics

4:21am Thursday, May 19, 2005
Press Release Ohio Attorney General's Office May 17, 2005 COLUMBUS - Ohio sheriffs issued 51,998 licenses to carry concealed handguns between April 8, 2004, when the state law went into effect, and March 31, 2005, according to the statistics gathered by Ohio’s Sheriff’s and complied by the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission. “I am the chief public official charged with implementing this law...

Cleveland Channel 5 news anchor arrested at crime scene

4:18am Thursday, May 19, 2005
Judging strictly by the headlines, there is now one more reporter arrested for disobeying a lawful order from the police than concealed handgun license-holders this year. May 17, 2005 Cleveland Plain Dealer Maple Heights police arrested WEWS Channel 5 anchor Curtis Jackson at a crime scene Sunday as he followed a woman to her apartment for an interview. Chief Rich Maracz said that Jackson was...

LTEs: Dispatch's support for Clyde ''not surprising'', but hypocritical

4:16am Thursday, May 19, 2005
May 18, 2005 Columbus Dispatch Section of House bill clear on gun licenses In its May 11 editorial, "Safety is a local issue," The Dispatch states that "(Ohio Attorney General Jim) Petro contends that the state — and only the state — can restrict where people holding licenses to carry guns can go." Fortunately for the law-abiding citizens of Ohio who have taken the time to get the required...

Three home invasions stress that only you can protect you

4:14am Thursday, May 19, 2005
Gun ban extremist Toby Hoover has voiced her support for making CHL-records public by insisting she needs to know if anyone she hires might be carrying a firearm. This story fairly screams what most reasonable Ohioans think – when hiring, be concerned about the criminals amongst us - not the background checked law-abiding citizen. There is no media list of criminals, so perhaps Toby can explain...

AGAIN: Associated Press awards Cleveland Plain Dealer for anti-CCW reporting

8:55am Tuesday, May 17, 2005
by Chad D. Baus For the second time in as many months, a liberal national media entity has patted the Cleveland Plain Dealer on the back for its anti-concealed carry coverage in Ohio. In April, ultra-liberal Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for commentary that, among other things, bashed Ohio CHL-holders in 2004 as "Dirty Harry wannabe's". Yesterday,...

No longer the ''Best'' Buy in the Buckeye State for gun owners

8:33am Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Several weeks ago, Ohioans For Concealed Carry began receiving reports of new “no-guns” signs appearing at Best Buy locations in Ohio. Initially, it appeared this may have been a result of store managers having been mislead by out-of-state companies who are peddling “compliance kits” that contain “no-guns” signs, and falsely claiming that state law requires them to be posted. In fact, in at least...

Tight budgets causing police departments to shrink

8:15am Tuesday, May 17, 2005
The Ironton Tribune is reporting that funding problems are prompting a reduction of law enforcement officers in Lawrence County. From the story: Lawrence County law enforcement officers may not be extinct yet, but they might be considered an endangered species. The ranks of law enforcement officers in Lawrence County these days are thinning. The entire police department in Athalia was disbanded...

Mansfield police train for school crisis

8:09am Tuesday, May 17, 2005
The Mansfield News Journal is reporting that law enforcement officers recently engaged in a mock assault on a local high school in a drill designed to help prepare for the eventuality of a school shooting. From the story: Police Officers Brian Evans, Doug Noblet, Ken Carroll and Perry Wheeler stalked down a Mansfield Senior High School hallway, brandishing guns and crouching low, waiting for an...

Letters to Dayton Daily News Editor favor privacy

7:45am Monday, May 16, 2005
In the wake of a Round Table discussion of whether or not CHL-holders' records should be kept private, Dayton Daily News readers were just as overwhelmingly supportive of privacy in their letters to the editor as they were at the forum. But are news editors listening? More importantly, are legislators? May 13, 2005 Dayton Daily News Publishing names just a childish act In following the debate on...

Headline: Conceal/carry signs going, going, gone

7:03am Monday, May 16, 2005
The Wilmington News Journal is reporting . From the story: Gun-banning signs at the entrances to J.W. Denver Williams Jr. Memorial Park have been pulled. Similar signs posted at the entrances to the Clinton County Fairground are expected to soon come down, too. A formal, written opinion recently issued by Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro says signs cannot ban guns from city parkland. Rather, guns...

''No-guns'' UDF robberies continue

6:53am Monday, May 16, 2005
They don’t always make the headlines, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t still happening… Case # 050395302 Title: Robbery Location: 327 E Hudson St. City: Columbus; Zone: 4 Precinct: 4; District: 43 Occurred: 5/11/2005 10:33:00 PM Reported By: Officer Hogan, Badge 2177 Report Narrative: REPORTING PERSON STATES THE SUSPECTS CAME IN TO THE LISTED UNITED DAIRY FARMERS. SUSPECT #1 PULLED A BLACK...

Editorial (?): One year later: Concealed Carry law's impact

6:48am Monday, May 16, 2005
We’re not sure whether it’s a news story or an op-ed, but since Medina County Gazette reporter “Gladden” ends this story by expressing his personal opinion and referring to himself in the first person, we’ll take a gamble this was published as an editorial, even though it is not so delineated on the newspapers’ website. OFCC PAC Commentary provided in blue : Remember all the hype when concealed-...

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