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LTE: Forget about guns. Get tougher on crime

9:53pm Friday, February 11, 2005
February 10, 2005 Akron Beacon Journal I wondered how long it would take the likes of Toby Hoover, the Brady Campaign and the news media to pounce on their anti-gun drivel (" Portage killings spark debate ,'' Beacon Journal, Jan. 26). I find it ironic that Hoover, executive director of the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, stated that 40 percent of gun sales don't require a background check...

Is a man like this eating at YOUR Dairy Queen?

9:42pm Friday, February 11, 2005
The Newark Advocate is reporting that Charles W. McCoy kicked a chair and swore on his way out of court Tuesday after he was sentenced to 30 years in prison for a knifepoint robbery and stabbing at the Dairy Queen in Heath in July. According to the story, McCoy had waived his right to a jury trial and instead pleaded his case directly to Common Pleas Judge Jon R. Spahr, who sentenced him to 30...

Florida bill to allow deadly force against burglars

9:26pm Friday, February 11, 2005
February 10, 2005 St. Petersburg (FL) Times TALLAHASSEE - More than a decade has passed since Sen. Jim King woke up to find a man pointing a gun at his head. It's been 15 years since Sen. Evelyn Lynn woke up - twice - to find intruders in her home. But both remember the events as if they were yesterday, prompting both to vote Wednesday for a bill expanding the rights of Floridians to use deadly...

The tragic face of defenselessness

2:53pm Thursday, February 10, 2005
WBNS 10TV (CBS Columbus) is reporting that a Columbus man heading out for a Saturday morning jog took a severe beating from three other men more than half his age. Police are looking for any possible witnesses to help catch the three robbers. 10TV is not reporting the victim’s last name, and OFCC is not reporting his first. "These dummies are going to kill me for nothing,” the victim told the...

Op-Ed: GOP's labels stick poorly to Coleman

1:13pm Thursday, February 10, 2005
February 06, 2005 Cleveland Plain Dealer by Sandy Theis Bumper-sticker slogans don't apply to Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman, and that's the way he likes it. The first Democrat to announce his candidacy for governor wants to keep abortion legal. So does one of the Republican contenders, Auditor Betty Montgomery. Coleman opposes gay marriage but supports civil unions. So does Attorney General Jim...

The letter the Plain Dealer refused to publish

1:11pm Thursday, February 10, 2005
OFCC’s Jim Irvine recently sent a letter to the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer regarding the newspaper’s failure to report when crimes happen in places where “no-guns” signs are posted. Irvine also took the newspaper to task for its failure to use the Media Access Loophole as they claimed they would when lobbying for it. The Plain Dealer, specifically Mr. Doug Clifton, did not respond, nor...

LTE: Weapons ban would be inconsequential

1:08pm Thursday, February 10, 2005
February 09, 2005 Columbus Dispatch I respond to the Jan. 28 Dispatch article "Police take shot at assault weapons." What a joke! If Columbus City Councilman Michael C. Mentel truly wants to protect police officers and citizens, he should turn all of his effort into fund-raising for the Columbus Division of Police so it can hire additional officers and equipment to increase patrols. Banning these...

Cuyahoga Co. admits error; promises to revise CCW policy

5:09pm Wednesday, February 09, 2005
In recent weeks, Ohioans For Concealed Carry has been contacted by concerned Cuyahoga County citizens regarding county's "Concealed Weapons Policy" as described on its website : IT IS ILLEGAL To knowingly carry a firearm, deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance anywhere on any County Premises. This prohibitation applies to all persons, including Concealed Handgun Licensed Owners! The misspelling of...

Pro-gun vote: Loveland target range wins nod

9:04am Wednesday, February 09, 2005
The Cincinnati Enquirer is reporting that voters in referendum have overwhelmingly approved an amendment to allow a 15-lane shooting range facility in the Loveland city limits. Voters were asked to affirm or repeal an amendment passed last summer by Loveland City Council, which allowed firearms to be discharged at an indoor target range. Previously, police officers and citizens defending...

Even the founder of Michael Moore's bodyguard company is anti-gun

5:08pm Tuesday, February 08, 2005
In the wake of a January 20 FOXNews report that Michael Moore's bodyguard had been arrested in at JFK airport on a gun charge, and following aggressive attempts at silencing follow-up reports on the subject from the security company, Ohioans For Concealed Carry Senate District 10 Coordinator Larry S. Moore (no relation to Michael, and we suspect he's thankful for that) decided to look into the...

''Road rage deputy'' on the street as trial approaches

4:43pm Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Ohioans For Concealed Carry has learned that a Franklin Co. Deputy accused of aiming a gun at a Columbus cabbie and saying "I’ll shoot you dead" last May is finally going to face a jury. When Columbus police stopped Brinkley’s car, they did not file any charges. Instead, they told the victim that he could pursue charges through the city prosecutor’s office. When news of the incident became public...

Lima News: Good theology, but RIGHT hand does not know what Left is doing

3:47pm Tuesday, February 08, 2005
The Lima News has published an excellent editorial examining the expansive growth of violent crime in countries where guns are banned. It starts like this: A Gun Lesson From Britain All too often, government officials believe the cure for a failing policy is more of the same. That’s the case with a near-total ban in firearms in Great Britain. Gun control activists and politicians in the United...

Loveland gun range on ballot Feb. 8!

7:24pm Monday, February 07, 2005
The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Saturday that residents will decide Tuesday about the fate of a proposed indoor shooting range on Loveland-Madeira Road. The owners of Shooters Supply, a 16-year Loveland business, are proposing a new retail store and indoor shooting range on Loveland-Madeira. The newspaper reports that Loveland council last year passed an amended gun law that allows the range,...

Patron subdues would-be armed robber at Fremont Wal-Mart store

7:15pm Monday, February 07, 2005
The Fremont News Messenger is reporting that a Columbus man was arrested Saturday night after he was accused of trying to steal merchandise and threatening store employees with a knife when they tried to stop him. According to a report from the Fremont police which as refernece by the newspaper, about 7 p.m. Saturday, Ian Wilson, 24, of Columbus, attempted to steal two pairs of scissors, a box...

Letter to the Editor: Resnick's run-in raises questions

6:59pm Monday, February 07, 2005
February 7, 2005 Toledo Blade I was born on a Wednesday, but not last Wednesday. I may be a little naive, but not that naive. After reading the account of Justice Alice Resnick's run-in with the law, I cannot believe the back-tracking of Bowling Green city prosecutor Matt Reger. I ask all law-abiding citizens of Ohio: What if it had been you approached at the BP gas station and you gave your...

Police say criminals casing Fremont homes as prep for burglaries

6:40pm Monday, February 07, 2005
Time and again, when told that publishing lists of gun owners (CHL-holders) would provide criminals lists of homes from which to steal guns, or would let potential attackers know who isn't able to defend themselves, the media responded by saying that criminals just weren't smart enough to utilize the newspaper to premeditate their crimes or select their targets. The Akron Beacon Journal has...

Gary Nasal's 8 mo. "investigation" yields no indictment of Sheriff O'Leary

3:41pm Saturday, February 05, 2005
by Chad D. Baus “Quis custodet ipsos custodes?”, Juvenal Who will guard the guards themselves? That is the question many Ohioans are likely to be asking themselves in the wake of two current events in Ohio. Last week, Democrat Supreme Court Justice Alice Robie Resnick was arrested in Wood County for driving with a blood alcohol content 2 ½ times the legal limit. It was later revealed that despite...

New video proves Resnick lied to police officers in initial stops

1:59pm Saturday, February 05, 2005
As can be seen in the first three traffic stop videos released by law enforcement, anti-CCW Ohio State Supreme Court Justice Alice Robie Resnick repeatedly denied having consumed alcohol or taken medication when first approached by police at a gas station in Bowling Green and later when pulled over on I-75 South near Cygnet in Wood County. However, the Toledo Blade is now reporting that law, just...

Elderly female customer robbed outside Fifth Third bank

7:54am Saturday, February 05, 2005
The Brown County People's Defender is reporting that on Feb. 1, at approximately 1:30 p.m., an elderly woman carrying a moneybag from the Fifth Third Bank in Peebles was assaulted and the moneybag stolen. The thief was described in the newspaper as a tall, thin man with black hair, facial stubble, wearing a navy blue, nylon hooded jacket with white pin stripes down the sleeve, tan jeans and white...

In wake of actress' murder, CNN offers mugger safety tips

7:45am Saturday, February 05, 2005
In response to the shooting of off-broadway acctress Nicole duFresne by Manhattan mugger last week, CNN.com has published tips on "How to survive a mugging". The story is based on a press release by the Washington-based National Crime Prevention Council, which is now circulating a list of tips on how to survive a mugging. "It demonstrates that confronting an attacker is probably the worst thing...

Fear of home invasions in Richland Co. ''has people here scared''

6:49am Saturday, February 05, 2005
The Mansfield News Journal has published an update on progress concerning the investigation of a spate of home invastions in Richland County. Once victim, Eunice Wilburn, told the News Journal she lives in fear after being victimized in a recent home invasion. align="right"> "I'm scared every time someone pulls in the driveway," the 57-year-old Washington Township woman told the newspaper. "It...

Resnick avoids charges of ''fleeing''; will change not-guilty plea Monday

7:54am Friday, February 04, 2005
When are multiple 911 calls reporting erratic driving not "reasonable suspicion"? When is a police officer saying "you are not free to go yet" not a lawful order for you to stop? Perhaps when your name is Alice Robie Resnick, and you are an Democrat Ohio State Supreme Court Justice. Matthew Reger, Bowling Green's city prosecutor, announced yesterday that Justice Resnick will not face any...

Another elderly victim at ''no-guns'' business

6:56am Friday, February 04, 2005
The Akron Beacon Journal is reporting that an off-duty Summit County sheriff's deputy and a witness helped to catch two Canton men suspected in a purse snatching. According to a township police news release quoted by the newspaper, a 69-year-old woman was leaving the Stein Mart on Strip Avenue Northwest on Tuesday morning when a man approached her from behind and grabbed her purse. An...

Op-Ed writers too optimistic?: ''The last nail in gun control''

6:47am Friday, February 04, 2005
As you read this commentary, there are several things to keep in mind: Nothing in the past has stopped people like John Kerry from reversing course on "firmly held" positions when it was deemed politically necessary. Furthermore, there are already signs U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) is bucking his moderate reputation in order to please the fringe left of his party. Bearing...

VICTIM ZONE: Thief cuts man, 79, during assault in hospital garage

5:25pm Thursday, February 03, 2005
The Toledo Blade is reporting that a thief followed a West Toledo couple to their car in the St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center parking garage, brandished a knife, and cut the husband's hand yesterday while reaching for the wife's purse. What the Blade did NOT report is that St. Vincent's affirmatively disarms its customers by posting "no-guns" signs. The husband, 79, was treated for the wound to...

Coshocton man suffers cuts in street attack

5:12pm Thursday, February 03, 2005
The Cosochton Tribune is reporting a 19-year-old man suffered cuts on his face and a stab wound to his leg during a street robbery Tuesday night. According to the story, the victim told sheriff's deputies he was attacked by two men as he walked toward a friend's house along the railroad tracks in the 400 block of South Fifth Street shortly after 9 p.m. "Apparently, one had a knife and cut his...

Resnick takes ''full responsibility'' for DUI arrest; pleads ''not-guilty''

7:52am Thursday, February 03, 2005
Media outlets across the state are reporting that Ohio Supreme Court Justice Alice Robie Resnick has released a six-sentence statement, marking her first public comment since being arrested Monday and charged with driving under the influence. The short statement says volumes. Resnick, who has plead 'not-guilty' to the charges , claims she will "accept full responsibility for my actions." The 65-...

Sarasota Co.: Crime down, paper credits armed citizens

7:33am Thursday, February 03, 2005
February 2, 2005 Venice (FL) Gondolier Sun Violent and nonviolent crime was down in Sarasota County in 2004. Many law enforcement officials agree -- and the numbers show -- there is a direct relationship between an armed citizenry and reduced crime. Since adopting concealed weapons permits in 1987, Florida's homicide rate has fallen 21 percent while the U.S. rate has risen 12 percent. From Oct. 1...

Police: Justice Resnick drove away from officers, may face more charges

2:44pm Wednesday, February 02, 2005
The Toledo Blade is reporting that when first pulled over by Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers in Wood County, Ohio Supreme Court Justice Alice Robie Resnick defied an order and drove away from police. Having received six cell phone calls from motorists alerting them to a vehicle weaving across lanes on I-75, the Blade reports a Bowling Green officer and then a highway patrolman approached the...

Op-Ed: High Caliber Advocacy

2:04pm Wednesday, February 02, 2005
How the NRA won the fight over gun rights by John J. Miller February 14, 2005 National Review Online “When I was growing up in Tennessee, we had a saying for something that was so outrageous nobody could believe it: ‘That dog don’t hunt,’” says Chris Cox, the chief lobbyist of the National Rifle Association. The old phrase came back to him a couple of years ago, as Cox was plotting the NRA’s...

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