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New Jersey fourth-graders learn gun safety

10:13am Wednesday, November 17, 2004
November 13, 2004 Asbury Park Press (NJ) Union Beach students get smart about guns "If you find a gun, don't touch it," instructed Patrolman Lisa Griffin of the Union Beach police department. Griffin led a week-long program at the end of October on gun safety for kindergarten through fourth-grade students at Memorial School in Union Beach. On the last day she addressed Melanie Pozarwycki and...

The News (according to gun ban extremists)

3:46pm Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Despite having experienced another series of devastating losses on Election Day 2004, the early signs suggest gun ban extremists are no closer to understanding what a loser issue they are pushing, nor how Americans have risen above cheap fear-based "studies" that warp statistics into "proving" a point they set out to prove. Consider the following headlines from the Brady Campaign/ Million Mom...

Two messages from friends of Ohioans For Concealed Carry

12:48pm Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Please consider the following messages from organizations who have been extremely supportive of self-defense rights in Ohio. Solicitations for sheriffs' association disavowed A national non-profit organization claims it supports your local sheriff, but the Clermont County sheriff disagrees. Sheriff A.J. "Tim" Rodenberg is cautioning residents against donating to a national sheriffs' association...

Human right of self-defense doesn't end at the workplace

12:05pm Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Headed to work: Assault, robbery reported on Maple Avenue November 10, 2004, Sandusky: A Central Avenue man told police he was jumped by two or more men early Tuesday morning while he was walking to work. The man, from the 800 block of Central Ave., told Sandusky police he was walking to work shortly after 4 a.m. Tuesday near the 1000 block of Maple Ave. when two or three men grabbed him from...

It Can Happen to You, Mr. & Mrs. Ohio

11:27am Tuesday, November 16, 2004
As the following stories prove, no one leaves home expecting to be attacked, and no CHL-holder should plan to carry only when going into an area they deem to be high risk. Newark man injured in attack Nov. 7, 2004 - Heath: A Newark man is recovering in a Columbus hospital after an attack Friday night that left him with a fractured skull and broken nose. The 26-year-old was approached by two...

Clark County: ''Concealed carry law mostly popular with older people''

4:56pm Sunday, November 14, 2004
In addition to having been the only Ohio "blue" county from 2000 to have gone Bush Red in 2004 (a British newspaper's letter-writing campaign asking independent voters to choose Kerry couldn't have hurt), Clark County now has another interesting claim to fame: There are nearly 800 people who have made the choice to bear arms for self-defense in the county, and the average age of CHL-holders in...

Why do so many employee manuals render workers defenseless?

5:03pm Saturday, November 13, 2004
All employers put their workers at risk when forcing them to disarm. Businesses who send their employees into dangerous neighborhoods, such as construction, delivery, and public utility companies, are especially negligent. WDTN.com (NBC 2 Dayton) reported last week that a 47-year-old electrical contractor was on the job Tuesday when he was shot in a botched robbery. It happened at Northland...

Off-Duty Officer Charged In Road Rage Incident

11:10pm Friday, November 12, 2004
An apparent road rage incident on a local interstate led to charges being filed against an off-duty Columbus police officer, NBC 4's Duarte Geraldino reported on November 11. The incident occurred at 9:50 a.m. along Interstate 270 North at Westerville Road. Police told NBC 4 that Kristopher Montgomery, 25, of Newark, and off-duty Officer Mark Nelson, 33, of Johnstown, had a dispute while driving...

Letter to the Editor: Cleveland Free Times' "trifecta of political failure"

11:01pm Friday, November 12, 2004
November 10, 2004 Cleveland Free Times edited to topic PUT THAT IN YOUR QUIXOTIC PIPE I am writing now for two reasons. First, I'm a procrastinator and kept forgetting. Second, I was awaiting the last of three events to take place. Those three events are the passage of concealed carry in Ohio, the expiration of the sham “assault weapons” ban, and finally the reelection of George Bush. You not...

Why do some banks disarm customers who wish to patronize their business?

7:52am Thursday, November 11, 2004
WDTN.com (NBC 2 Dayton) is reporting on rash of ATM robberies in the Dayton area. The most recent hold-up happened Sunday in the Oregon District. WDTN says this was the third incident in the area since Thursday. Related Stories: Cincinnati's Northside Bank posts ''no-guns'' sign on outdoor ATM! Medina victim sues man who robbed her at First Merit ATM Victim Zone: Armed robbers strike on &...

RAPIST PROTECTION ZONE: UD Student Raped On Campus

7:28am Thursday, November 11, 2004
WDTN.com (NBC 2 Dayton) is reporting on a warning for University of Dayton students after a female student was sexually assaulted on campus. According to the report, the student says two men approached her outside the mechanical engineering building near Stewart, early Saturday morning. One of them, a white college-age man with blond hair and a plaid shirt, sexually assaulted her. WDTN says...

Why does Ohio law prohibit self-defense at rest stops?

7:20am Thursday, November 11, 2004
The Fremont News-Messenger reported on November 10 that a Detroit man, who is a suspect in an armed robbery in Chicago, was arrested by Ohio State Highway Patrolmen early Tuesday morning after a high speed chase in Sandusky County. Police told the News-Messenger that troopers of the Milan Post observed Truman Manning, 42, of Detroit driving a 2005 Ford Taurus eastbound on the Ohio Turnpike at...

Woman kidnapped from bus stop, raped

7:06am Thursday, November 11, 2004
November 9, 2004 WKYC.com (NBC3 Cleveland) According to the Cleveland police chief, a 21-year-old woman was waiting for a bus on East 120th and Euclid when a man drove up asking for directions Monday. The unidentified man said he could not hear the young woman and asked her to come closer. She obliged but when she did he reportedly forced her into the vehicle. The suspect drove the victim around...

FLASH: Republican Sen. Spada's anti-CCW mailer paid for by OhioGOP

8:44am Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Ohioans For Concealed Carry has obtained a political mailer sent to voters in Senate District 24, which attacks a Democrat candidate for his support of concealed carry. On the eve of the election, an 8 ½” x 11” full color mailer bearing the name of the Ohio Republican Party, and Chairman Robert Bennett, was mailed to residents in Republican Sen. Bob Spada’s Senate district. The mailer attacked...

OFCC PAC Endorsee Jon Husted chosen as next House speaker

7:44am Wednesday, November 10, 2004
The Associated Press is reporting today that majority Republicans in the Ohio House have selected Rep. Jon Husted of Kettering as speaker for the 2005-2006 legislative session. Husted, 37, will succeed Speaker Larry Householder in January. Householder is leaving because of term limits. The wire report says Husted, a former vice president of the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce, is completing his...

FAILURE: Gun control laws don't stop black market SWAT weapons transfers

3:46pm Tuesday, November 09, 2004
WDTN.com (Dayton 2News) is reporting that police have recovered several of the weapons stolen from a SWAT team officers' car last week. 2News reports a phone tip led police to the stolen weapons and to three suspects that are under arrest. But the suspects are not believed to be the ones who broke into the SWAT team members vehicle . According to a quote attributed to Dayton Police Department Lt...

Fifth Third Bank robbery: not even the guards are armed

3:10pm Tuesday, November 09, 2004
On November 9, 2004, WCPO.com reported that Cincinnati Police are looking for two bank robbers who struck a Fifth Third Bank in Corryville Tuesday morning. All Ohio Fifth Third Banks are listed on OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed database . According to the news story, just before 11 a.m., a man put a gun to the unarmed security guard's head while the other suspect robbed two tellers. What is...

So the criminals aren't smart enough to plot their crimes, right?

2:44pm Tuesday, November 09, 2004
Those in the media who recklessly abuse their privilege to obtain information on individuals with CHLs callously dismiss suggestions that publishing the names will lead to targeted gun theft. The Akron Beacon Journal has called it a "flimsy presumption", and Gannett News Columbus Bureau Chief Jim Siegel said warnings about the dangers of publishing the list of CHL-holders "elevate these criminals...

Violent convenience store robberies show need for self-defense prep

7:04am Monday, November 08, 2004
Think it can't happen to you? So did this employee and store customer... Armed men rob store, still at large November 2, 2004, Newark Advocate A convenience store clerk had a gun pointed at his head and was handcuffed by two men during a brazen mid-morning robbery on Hudson Avenue Monday. Rezene Ahferom was working the counter at the Old Town North Market, 322 Hudson Ave., at about 10:30 a.m...

Letter to the Editor: Cooked goose

6:21am Monday, November 08, 2004
November 7, 2004 Toledo Blade No shot in the dark As a conservative Ohio Buckeye, I'm happy to say that John Kerry may have shot our goose, but we cooked his! Jim Kimble Holland Click on the "Read More..." link below for another letter, describing how the Bush administration is achieving success at prosecuting gun crimes, and how worthless Kerryites' proposals would be. November 6, 2004 Columbus...

Guns stolen from citizen's and police dept.'s parked vehicles

10:19pm Friday, November 05, 2004
When a CHL-holder needs to enter a "no-guns" victim zone, Ohio law currently requires to leave their firearm in a locked case in "plain sight" in their motor vehicle, or in a locked glove box. In testimony supporting House Bill 12, which was under consideration by the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice in May 2003, Gahanna Police Chief Dennis Murphy voiced opposition to the creation of "victim...

The Great American Gun Debate

10:18pm Friday, November 05, 2004
The following story, written by OFCC PAC Senate District 10 Coordinator Larry S. Moore, was published today in the Greene County Dailies (Xenia Daily Gazette, Fairborn Herald, Beavercreek News Current). November 5, 2004 The great American gun debate has been in the spotlight throughout this election year. There are many points on both sides of the debate. Perhaps those who claim to be in the...

VICTIM ZONE: Butler coroner beaten, robbed leaving church

8:00am Friday, November 05, 2004
The Cincinnati Enquirer is reporting that while voters were casting ballots that made him Butler County's top vote getter, Coroner Richard P. Burkhardt was being attacked Tuesday. According to the report, the 65-year-old coroner had just attended services at St. Joseph Church on Washington Street around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday when a man approached him in the church parking lot and asked for a ride...

NRA: Freedom Prevails Across the Country

7:11am Friday, November 05, 2004
November 04, 2004 NRAILA.org Fairfax, VA—The National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) earned a 95% success rate of endorsed congressional candidates winning their races. The Association also won two major battles over anti-hunting initiatives, as voters in Alaska and Maine rejected ballot issues banning bear hunting methods. Of the 251 candidates endorsed by NRA for the U.S...

Group to Push For National Concealed Carry, More

7:07am Friday, November 05, 2004
November 04, 2004 CNSNews.com A Second Amendment group, relieved to have a stronger pro-gun majority on Capitol Hill and a gun-friendly president in the White House, says it will now press for an expansion of the nation's armed pilots program. The real work begins now," the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said in a press release congratulating gun owners who turned...

Once again, Democrats underestimated gun owner vote

7:01am Friday, November 05, 2004
By Alan Gottlieb and Joe Waldron Democrats didn't get it and the media still doesn't. A record turnout of gun owners has once again helped shape the political landscape, this time around not only retaining control of the White House, but also reinforcing the strength of the Republican majority in both houses of Congress. Firearms owners, including millions of hunters, were far quicker to see...

''Life after legislature''? Doug White on short-list for Taft job appointment

6:37am Thursday, November 04, 2004
November 04, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer (click to read entire story) Deters win brings speculation about possible GOP shuffle State Treasurer Joe Deters won the job of Hamilton County prosecutor Tuesday, positioning Republicans for a round of political musical chairs that could extend from Washington to all corners of Ohio. Can you say Gov. Portman? How about Lt. Gov. Womer Benjamin, or even...

Election eve victim zone robbery in ''no guns'' bank

5:53am Thursday, November 04, 2004
November 2, 2004 Akron Beacon Journal Police issue warrant in bank robbery AKRON - Police have issued a warrant for an Akron man wanted in Monday afternoon's robbery at FirstMerit bank, 727 N. Main St. Michael Karpinski, 29, of Mount Vernon Avenue is wanted on an aggravated robbery charge. According to police, the robber handed a teller a note indicating he had a gun and a pipe bomb and demanded...

2004 Election Results and Analysis

11:34am Wednesday, November 03, 2004
Ohio gun owners have a lot to be proud of this 2004 election season. Upon the nomination of John Kerry by Democrats last spring, grassroots activists in Ohio quickly realized that the most intense threat to our self-defense rights came not from a state candidate, but from a liberal Massacheusetts Senator with a 20-year history of opposing the Second Amendment and of voting to ban the very guns we...

Limbaugh: What's at Stake in This Election

6:46am Tuesday, November 02, 2004
November 1, 2004 RushLimbaugh.com BEGIN TRANSCRIPT Ladies and gentlemen, I have avoided throughout the whole year declaring this the most important election in our history. I mean, we've had crucial elections before during the Civil War, during World Wars. We had numerous crucial elections during the Cold War, and we've had a divided electorate before. This isn't the first time that we have...

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