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Employees: It can happen to you. Does your employer care?

8:52am Friday, December 24, 2004
Akron: Restaurant driver robbed at gunpoint - just drive away, right? A restaurant delivery driver was robbed at gunpoint Wednesday night in the 500 block of Elbon Avenue in East Akron, police said. The driver, who is employed by Juwuan Kitchen, told officers he had made a delivery about 8:30 p.m. and was walking back to his car when a man with a gun approached. The gunman demanded money. After...

Snow Job? It may be more than the white stuff causing delays in Shelby Co.

6:06pm Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Ohioans For Concealed Carry continues to receive requests for updates on problems with Shelby Co. Sheriff Kevin O'Leary and Jeffrey Billiel, editor of Brown Publishing's Sidney Daily News. In recent weeks, we have received information about Miami Co. Prosecutor Gary Nasal's "investigation" that is deeply discouraging. Before that, some background: On June 17, Nasal was appointed special...

SIGNS COME DOWN: ACE Hardware points to ''numerous'' letters from OFCC members

3:48pm Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Yet another Ohio-based business has made the corporate decision to remove discriminatory signs banning CHL-holders from their restaurants. Like Frisch's, MicroCenter, Home Depot, Giant Eagle, Perkins Family Restaurants, Kroger, and the Ohio Auto Dealers Association (to name a few), Handyman ACE Hardware has responded to customers' questions about why these businesses were posting signs in Ohio...

Op-Ed: Justice Department To America: Lock and Load!

2:52pm Wednesday, December 22, 2004
But the shooting will continue in the political war over guns Article by Brian Doherty originally appeared at Reason Online on December 21, 2004 (republished with permission) Last week, the United States Justice Department publicly released a long document, signed by three deputy assistant attorneys general, spelling out in great detail the linguistic, historical, and case-law reasons why it...

Guilty conscience? Blade offers reward for information in rape

12:54pm Wednesday, December 22, 2004
The Toledo Blade announced yesterday it is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the man who raped a female newspaper carrier in northwest Toledo early Sunday. Police said the man forced himself into the car of the woman in the 2800 block of Tremainsville Road about 5:30 a.m. and sexually assaulted her. Commentary: How sensitive. The Blade is offering a...

Armed men rob ''no-guns'' Fifth Third bank

12:37pm Wednesday, December 22, 2004
The Dayton Daily News is reporting that two men entered Fifth Third Bank at 6301 Wilmington Pike about 3 p.m. and took an undetermined amount of cash at gunpoint, Centerville police Lt. Bruce Robertson said. The first suspect, who brandished a silver semiautomatic handgun, wore a hooded gray sweatshirt with the logo "Old Navy" in black letters across the front, blue jeans and black boots,...

Police say gunman robbed (no-guns) credit union

11:57am Wednesday, December 22, 2004
The Akron Beacon Journal is reporting that a man brandishing a handgun robbed a credit union Tuesday afternoon. The story says the robbery happened at the Seven Seventeen Credit Union, 4450 Belden Village Ave., about 1:50 p.m. Police told the newspaper a man demanding money from a teller placed a handgun on the counter. The teller gave the man an undisclosed amount of cash. Police said he left in...

''Life after the legislature'': Doug White likely Taft pick for commerce dir.

11:13am Tuesday, December 21, 2004
FLASHBACK: Sen. White admits to existence of HB12 vote trading for Taft job appointments The Columbus Dispatch is reporting today that outgoing Senate President Doug White is likely to find the "life after the legislature" that he so eagerly sought during 2003 deliberations on concealed carry reform. The December 21, 2004 Dispatch story reports as follows: Gov. Bob Taft today is expected to...

Newspaper carrier raped on the job; her employer bans self-defense

6:53pm Monday, December 20, 2004
The Toledo Blade reported today that one of its delivery personnel was raped early yesterday morning by a man who forced himself into her car on Tremainsville Road in the northwest part of Toledo. Toledo police Sgt. Paul Hickey told the newspaper the suspect assaulted the woman at 5:30 a.m. in the 2800 block of Tremainsville. The Blade said he declined to release further details of the attack...

Cincy police officer's firearm stolen from parking lot outside ''no-guns'' biz

6:18pm Monday, December 20, 2004
December 19, 2004 WKRC.com (Ch. 12 Cincinnati) Off-Duty Police Officer's Car & Weapons Stolen An off-duty police officer's personal car, containing his service weapon was stolen from a mall parking lot Saturday afternoon. Police said the Sergeant, who works with the Cincinnati Police Department, was shopping at Northgate Mall today, when he noticed his car keys were missing. The officer kept...

Dayton bus stop crime highlights ongoing violations by Ohio RTAs

Chad D. Baus
3:59pm Sunday, December 19, 2004
On December 5, the Dayton Daily News published a story documenting a growing problem that is facing the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority (the city's public bussing system). According to the newspaper, high crimes at and around a downtown hub building at Third and Main is increasing pressure on the GDRTA to reconsider its transit hub system that concentrates large numbers of busses...

Letter to the Editor: Fork-control laws needed

6:48am Saturday, December 18, 2004
December 9, 2004 Dayton Daily News Re "Study: Ohioans beefing up," Nov. 9: I believe it is time that our state lawmakers examine the issue of "fork control" to limit the availability of forks and reduce overeating. I know this suggestion is controversial because many in Ohio believe it is the right of the people to keep and bear forks. But the evidence that action is needed is overwhelming. A...

ODOT rest stop policy clarified: ''No-guns'' signs on buildings only

10:40pm Friday, December 17, 2004
The Ohio Department of Transportation's Assistant Legal Counsel, Michaela J. Peterson, has replied to inquiries by OFCC PAC about reports of "no-guns" signs posted in parking areas at rest stops, confirming that it is ODOT policy to post "no-guns" signs only on rest area buildings, and not on parking areas or grounds surrounding the buildings. "It is our policy, in accordance with Ohio law, to...

Salvation Army bans CHL-holders; complains when Target bans bell-ringers

9:55pm Friday, December 17, 2004
Banning donors who happen to be exercising their right to bear arms for self-defense from its retail stores seemed alright with the leadership of the Salvation Army, which has posted "no-guns" signs at stores across Ohio. But a ban of a different kind has the Army howling, and hurting... December 20, 2004 Business Week The Salvation Army's Leaky Kettle Just when the agency needs more cash,...

Roadie.net documents story of unarmed heroes trying to stop club shootings

8:27am Friday, December 17, 2004
A website devoted to covering the profession of "roadies" has published an exclusive eyewitness account of the Alrosa Villa shooting, as told by two road crew workers who were there. Titled "The Heroes of the Damageplan Shooting", this recounting gives a detailed look at how two defenseless - as mandated by Ohio law - roadies and one civilian were killed (and two others injured) while charging...

Cleveland grocer, 71, returns fire, kills robber

7:39am Friday, December 17, 2004
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting on another shooting at a retail store on the city's west side. But this one had far different results than the one at Tony's Deli, where a clerk was killed for not opening the cash drawer quick enough, and where a defenseless witness was murdered by a shot in the back while fleeing. Why the difference? Because this time, the store owner refused to be a...

Another Clinton-era try to prove ''more guns = more crime'' goes down in flames

7:23am Friday, December 17, 2004
Last year, the Centers for Disease Control released results of a sweeping federal review (started during the Clinton-era) of the nation's gun control laws - including mandatory waiting periods and bans on certain weapons. The task force reviewed 51 published studies about the effectiveness of eight types of gun- control laws. The laws included bans on specific firearms or ammunition, measures...

Op-ed: The False Hope of Gun-Free Zones

10:44am Thursday, December 16, 2004
By Gerard Valentino CNSNews.com Commentary December 16, 2004 Few people remember the school shooting in Pearl, Mississippi that took place in October 1997. Fewer people remember how it ended. This episode came to a close when Pearl High School Assistant Principal Joel Myrick sprinted a quarter mile to retrieve a personal handgun from his car and confronted the shooter who was unwilling to...

Recent Domestic Violence Murders in the Workplace Illustrate a Common Scenario

10:12am Thursday, December 16, 2004
A group called "Peace At Work" has inadvertantly proven the need for legalized self-defense in the workplace with results from their own study. December 15, 2004 "Peace At Work" press release Raleigh, NC (PRWEB) December 15, 2004 -- On November 29th, two women were murdered at work by their husbands at almost the exact same time though they were a world apart. Shennel McKendall of Chapel Hill,...

State-mandated victim zone: Man fires handgun during bar robbery

7:14am Thursday, December 16, 2004
The Fremont News-Messenger reported yesterday that a Fremont man was arrested Tuesday morning, accused of holding up a local bar, threatening and assaulting at least one patron, and discharging his weapon. Fremont police arrested Anthony Howey, 27, 412 Chestnut St., around 11 a.m. after he was accused of an armed robbery early Tuesday morning at Copper Penny, Inc., 502 E. State St. Police...

Accidental firearm-related fatalities drop to all-time low

6:57am Thursday, December 16, 2004
December 7, 2004 NEWTOWN, Conn.—A report from the National Safety Council shows that accidental firearm-related fatalities continue to decline and are at the lowest level in the history of record keeping. Statistics in the council’s “Injury Facts 2004” reveal a 54 percent decrease over a 10-year period ending in 2003. Last year, 101,537 U.S. residents died in accidents of all types. Less than one...

Musings from a ''red-neck idiot''...

10:46pm Wednesday, December 15, 2004
By Chad D. Baus "Anonymous" doesn't like me very much... Or is it the truth s/he don't like? Date: 16 Dec 2004 00:51:00 -0000 Subject: Lets make Ohio look more stupid!!!! To Chad Baus: First of all using this senseless crime for your personal soapbox is disgusting!!!! Second of all : Let''s look at this brilliant statement...let 250-300 people "pack heat" in a bar...wtf???? Then the headline...

Headline: "Blackwell poll shows he is pick of GOP"

5:03pm Wednesday, December 15, 2004
December 15, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer After high-profile crusades for tax cuts and against gay marriage, Secretary of State Ken Blackwell now leads the two other Republicans who want to be Ohio's next governor, according to a poll of GOP voters commissioned by Blackwell's campaign. Of the 511 people surveyed, 36 percent supported Blackwell for the nomination, 21 percent favored Auditor Betty...

Robbers murder clerk, chase down & kill fleeing witness

4:47pm Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Anti-gun police spokespersons are fond of endorsing the idea that it is better to be a good witness than to actively try to defend yourself when robbed. This theory comes to a crashing halt when a criminal decides it would be better not to leave any witnesses behind. The Cleveland Plain Dealer first reported on this tragedy Tuesday, and followed up with an in-depth report today. The story goes...

Dayton Daily News reporter's truck taken at gunpoint; used in armed robbery

2:18pm Wednesday, December 15, 2004
The Dayton Daily News reported Wednesday on yet another in a series of DDN employees being victims of crime in 2004. According to the newspaper, this latest incident occurred when a black-and-gray 1986 S10 Chevrolet pickup truck belonging to a Dayton Daily News reporter was stolen about 6 p.m. Tuesday from a downtown parking space and used in a robbery of a pizza business by two armed men. The...

''Ban the guns''? Perhaps cars and Tazers too...

1:15pm Wednesday, December 15, 2004
If the gun ban extremists truly believe banning inanimate objects can save lives, where are their calls for bans on cars? Vehicles kill more officers than guns Columbus Dispatch, December 12, 2004 The deadliest weapon law-enforcement officers face isn’t a gun. It’s a moving vehicle. In the past decade, traffic-related incidents have overtaken gunshots as the leading cause of officer deaths in the...

More warnings from police not to leave valuables in cars

12:12pm Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Sec. 2923.16. (E) No person who has been issued a license or temporary emergency license to carry a concealed handgun under section 2923.125 or 2923.1213 of the Revised Code shall do any of the following: (1) Knowingly transport or have a loaded handgun in a motor vehicle unless the loaded handgun either is in a holster and in plain sight on the person's person or it is securely encased by being...

Criminals don't let background checks stop them at Cincy-area gun store

8:37am Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Armed robbers net more than 30 guns in pre-opening Targetworld raid Compiled t.v. news reports from Cincinnati's WKRC and News 5 paint an increasingly suspicious picture of a construction worker at Targetworld who says he was forced to give access to four armed, masked criminals who then stole a large number of guns. According to WKRC, a call came into 911 around 8:30 a.m. yesterday. A temporary...

Why should employees be able to CCW? Question answered...tragically.

3:32pm Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Robbery Turns To Murder Of A Single Mom 25-Year-Old Attacked As She Left Work Late Tuesday On December 1, WTOV9.com (NBC Steubenville) reported on a crime that should force businesses that actively disarm patrons and employees to consider the results of their actions. It should also force citizens who have not yet made the decision to obtain a concealed handgun license to readdress their apathy...

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