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Bloomberg attacks nation's law enforcement officers

12:05am Wednesday, May 23, 2007
By Chad D. Baus The nation's police and law enforcement organizations are flies in anti-gun, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ointment, and the potential third party presidential hopeful isn't taking it well. Recently, Bloomberg launched http://www.protectpolice.org/ , in hopes of framing his latest gun control scheme in those terms. His efforts have been seriously undermined, however, by...

Don't let your children be victims of the ''Culture of Sheep''

12:10am Tuesday, May 22, 2007
By Tim Inwood Earlier in May I recounted a story from my youth in “Time for the sun to set on the Culture of Sheep” , where I complained of having been punished for defending myself. When it comes to the “Culture of Sheep”, I had barely scratched the surface in my disdain for what it has done to my country. My desire to examine and discuss how to undermine this national disease of indoctrinated...

Yet another op-ed writer fantasizes gun control could prevent massacre

12:05am Tuesday, May 22, 2007
By Chad D. Baus In the wake of Toledo Blade editorial board member Dan Simpson's tirade against the Constitution , and a recent Springfield (OH) News Sun editorial entitled "More guns not the answer to violence", yet another anti-gun writer has taken a stab at his dream list of gun control that he believe would stop incidents like last month's massacre on the "no guns" Virginia Tech campus. In "...

The media and guns – things they should know

12:10am Monday, May 21, 2007
By Larry S. Moore As firearms and self-defense activists, we see a lot of news stories that involve guns. Unfortunately much of it involves the misuse of firearms. Even more unfortunate is the inaccurate reporting of firearms use and misuse in these stories. Many of us read the mainstream media reports and wonder if the media has an agenda to make any use of a firearm sound bad. I suppose some do...

Monday's Must-Read Op-Eds

12:05am Monday, May 21, 2007
Illusion of Safety:The False Promise of Gun-Free Zones By Ken Blackwell Townhall.com Recent news accounts of the bittersweet commencement exercises at Virginia Tech University refueled debate in my university neighborhood and reinvigorated our search for the real cause of the threat to our safety. The debate centered on the need to mandate gun-free zones on college campuses. Well, mandating...

Which came first - the gun violence or the gun control?

12:15am Friday, May 18, 2007
By Chad D. Baus If ever there was a headline that made me do a double-take, it was a recent Associated Press article entitled "Mass shootings more common since 1960s" . The thesis of the article, written in the days following Seung-Hui Cho's sick massacre of his fellow college students, is to ask "What is it about modern-day America that provokes such random violence?" AP reporter Matt Crenson...

LTE: Properly trained people can use guns in self-defense

12:10am Friday, May 18, 2007
It wasn't quite at the level of Toledo Blade editorial board member Dan Simpson's tirade against the Constitution , but an April 30 editorial by Springfield (OH) News Sun editorial page editor Tom Hawkins entitled "More guns not the answer to violence" got pretty close . I don't want to take away your deer rifle, your shotgun or even your .357, but I do want to take away a silly argument the far-...

FRIDAY FLASHBACK!: The gun vote still matters

12:05am Friday, May 18, 2007
Buckeye Firearm Association's web site is seeing an amazing growth in visitors and new articles are being posted several times a week. With everything that is going on, it is easy to miss some important and interesting articles. To make sure that you don't miss anything, we are going to repost one of our more popular articles every Friday. This week's "Friday Flashback" is.... The gun vote still...

Armed with the Truth

12:10am Thursday, May 17, 2007
By Fred Thompson If you care about Constitutional law, and everybody should, the big news is that it looks as if the Supreme Court is going to hear a Second Amendment case some time next year. The event that sparked this legal fuse was a case brought by six D.C. residents who simply wanted functional firearms in their homes for self-defense. In response, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C...

If Ohio Was Like Kentucky

12:05am Thursday, May 17, 2007
By Chris Chumita and Jim Irvine Ohio concealed carry license holders are still celebrating the passage of HB347 and the improvements it made to Ohio’s concealed carry law. In the last few years, we have been slowly taking back our Second Amendment rights. A recent trip to Kentucky reminded us how far behind we are. Kentucky is a decade ahead of Ohio with firearms reform. We have joked about how...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

12:17am Wednesday, May 16, 2007
By Chris Chumita There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio then we can possibly draw attention to with individual daily commentary. But they are all worthy of mention. What follows is our review of headlines from around the state though a pro-gun rights lens. From a staged school shooting to a police officer being investigated, these articles should be a part of your required...

Anti-gun politician switches sides after being made victim in mugging

12:15am Wednesday, May 16, 2007
By Chad D. Baus Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Philip Morris is reporting that State Rep. Michael DeBose, a Cleveland Democrat who has a solid history of anti-gun votes in the Ohio legislature, has changed his mind in the wake of a violent robbery attempt near his home. The op-ed begins with this: It's funny how a gun can in stantly change your perspective on things, make you wish you could...

ABC's 20/20 debunks myth that gun control reduces crime

12:10am Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Given the typically uninformed and sometimes biased coverage of guns, gun crimes, and potential gun legislation, it can be extremely difficult for gun owners to read the newspaper or watch the television. But once in a while, a journalist shines through - not because they are pro-gun, but because they are fair. They weigh the facts and report the story. On the print side, the Cleveland Plain...

Op-Ed: Gun-free zones are fatal mistakes

12:05am Wednesday, May 16, 2007
By Dave Workman Reacting to questions from reporters about how to prevent future outrages like the murders of 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech on April 16, Texas Gov. Rick Perry dispelled any notion that common sense has been eradicated by political correctness in the United States. Perry's sensible solution: Allow legally armed citizens to carry their defensive firearms anywhere --...

Time for the sun to set on the Culture of Sheep

12:15am Tuesday, May 15, 2007
By Tim Inwood My first memory of encountering the “anti-self defense culture”, which I call the “culture of sheep”, was a cold morning in January 1975. I was in the sixth grade and was riding the school bus. Suddenly, another student sitting in the seat ahead of me turned and began striking me. This was completely unprovoked. Naturally I struck back in defense. The bus driver separated us and...

LTE: Conceal-carry was factor in stopping attack

12:05am Tuesday, May 15, 2007
The following letter was written in response to a letter to the Columbus Dispatch editor by a gun ban extremist who attempted to mislead readers about two well-known cases of armed citizens stopping mass murderers during school shootings. May 11, 2007 Columbus Dispatch Michael Holloway's Tuesday letter "Little evidence guns make campus safer," responding to an earlier op-ed, was filled with...

SAF Leadership Conference better arms Regional Activists

10:51pm Monday, May 14, 2007
The Second Amendment Foundation held a leadership training conference on Saturday, May 12 at the Drawbridge Inn and Convention Center in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky. This is also site of the 2007 Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) that will be held October 5-7. The event brought together leaders and activists from Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana to network, share ideas, and learn from the experience and...

Self Defense Against Rogue Statistics

12:10am Monday, May 14, 2007
by Dean Rieck Mark Twain is often quoted as saying, “There are three types of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics.” That’s another way of saying that while statistics are useful, they can be slippery. Much of the problem with statistics is ignorance about how they are created and what they mean. However, many people, including some anti-gun zealots, purposely misuse statistics, especially...

Gun licenses safe choice

12:05am Monday, May 14, 2007
By Karl Spaulding When Florida liberalized its restrictive and disjointed system of concealed carry laws in 1987, many states followed suit. In each case, naysayers predicted everything from "blood in the streets" to "parking lot shootouts." Just as regularly, after each state changed the law to allow more law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns, the results were peacefully anticlimactic...

Lunch wagon driver defends life when armed robbers attack

12:18pm Saturday, May 12, 2007
The Cincinnati Enquirer is reporting that a Hamilton County business man and CHL-holder was able to defend his life when attacked by two armed robbers. From the Cincinnati Enquirer: Cincinnati police Lt. Chris Matzen said two men tried to rob the driver of the lunch wagon at Millsdale Street at Curzon Avenue, just west of Anthony Wayne Avenue. During the attempted robbery, one suspect fired shots...

College professor tells OU students tragic event to change his viewpoint on guns

12:10am Friday, May 11, 2007
The Athens (OH) News reported earlier this week that, as a part of Firearms Awareness Week, the Ohio University Second Amendment Club hosted University of North Carolina Wilmington criminology professor Mike Adams as a guest speaker. Adams is a regular columnist for conservative news and opinion Web site Townhall.com. From the story: A criminology professor from North Carolina last Thursday told...

FRIDAY FLASHBACK!: And so it Begins.....Again

12:05am Friday, May 11, 2007
Buckeye Firearm Association's web site is seeing an amazing growth in visitors and new articles are being posted several times a week. With everything that is going on, it is easy to miss some important and interesting articles. To make sure that you don't miss anything, we are going to repost one of our more popular articles every Friday. This week's "Friday Flashback" is.... And so it Begins...

Officers volunteer to protect CHL-holder; Some politicians still don't get it

11:36am Thursday, May 10, 2007
By Chad D. Baus NewsChannel5 (ABC Cleveland) is reporting that police officers will volunteer their time to protect an Ohio CHL-holder who shot and killed an armed 15-year-old who was attempting to rob him. Since the April 21 shooting, the CHL-holder's home has been vandalized by friends of the dead robber, who already had a criminal record. Both Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Regina Brett and...

Mindset – the key to winning a deadly encounter

12:10am Thursday, May 10, 2007
By Jim Irvine There are many components that go into winning a violent encounter; having the proper tools at hand, shooting ability, physical conditioning, tactics and all the particulars of the specific incident. But the most important aspect may be mindset. Having the pre-determined mindset that you will not be a victim, that you will win against any attacker, at any time, any place, and any...

Plain Dealer LTEs: Guns in the wrongs hands - and the right ones

12:05am Thursday, May 10, 2007
The Cleveland Plain Dealer has published several letters to the editor in response to its April 29 story entitled "Gun advocates: Statistics are inadequate" and to the continued discussion over the latest Ohio CHL-holder to defend his own life when attacked. Getting to the source of delinquents' angst? I see very little difference between the young criminal who was recently killed in Mount...

American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA) tries to bully the NRA

12:10am Wednesday, May 09, 2007
By Larry S. Moore American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA) is clearly a master at the imitation game. As reported by Dave Workman in Gun Week on May 1, the organization rode into St. Louis on the coattails of the NRA Convention using the same type of deception the organization is known for in attempting to lure NRA members to their organization. The information all came to light when AHSA...

D.C. Gun Ban Update: U.S. Court of Appeals declines request to rehear case

12:05am Wednesday, May 09, 2007
NEWS RELEASE SAF SAYS D.C. CIRCUIT DENIAL ON RE-HEARING OF PARKER CASE WAS RIGHT BELLEVUE, WA – This morning’s decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to deny a petition from the District of Columbia for a hearing of Parker v. District of Columbia before the full court was “right and proper,” said Alan M. Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation. “This is a...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

11:53pm Tuesday, May 08, 2007
By Chris Chumita There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio then we can possibly draw attention to with individual daily commentary. But they are all worthy of mention. What follows is our review of headlines from around the state though a pro-gun rights lens. From a robbery to a gun show without guns, these articles should be a part of your required reading! Click on the "Read...

It's time for another Plain Dealer Pulitzer: Self-defense commentary continues

12:10am Tuesday, May 08, 2007
More to be learned from latest Regina Brett columns By Chad D. Baus In 2004, ultra-liberal Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz (wife of Sherrod Brown, the recently-elected anti-gun U.S. Senator from Ohio) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for commentary that, among other things, bashed Ohio CHL-holders as "Dirty Harry wannabe's". Schultz wrote the following commentary just days after Ohio...

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