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Akron newspaper headline hides sad trend in city crime rate

4:01pm Tuesday, May 25, 2004
"FBI stats say Akron fairly safe - Violent crime less than in other cities" To read the headline, you'd never guess that violent crime jumped 7% in Akron in 2003, fueled by a 23% increase in rape, and 22% increase in aggravated assault (bucking a state-wide and national trend of falling rates). Upon passage of Ohio House Bill 12, Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic whined, "We took guns away from the...

Columbus Dispatch finally finds ''CCW legislation'' it likes, and it's D.O.A.

10:58pm Monday, May 24, 2004
May 24, 2004 Columbus Dispatch Editorial: Promote peace in parks Cities need right to stop carrying of guns onto playgrounds, ball fields The state’s wrongheaded new law that allows Ohioans to carry concealed handguns is especially onerous in its failure to put public parks and playgrounds on the list of places where packing heat is prohibited. Parks bring people together for many different...

Citizen goes for CCW walk on ''banned'' Toledo city property

3:41pm Monday, May 24, 2004
Chalk one up for fair and balanced reporting in Toledo... On Friday May 21, 13 Action News (ABC affiliate) provided an excellent look at that the City of Toledo's illegal efforts to restrict concealed carry, and violate Section 9 of House Bill 12. The report came in two parts - a 6:00 p.m. broadcast featured OFCC-supporter and Ohio Cconcealed handgun license (CHL)-holder Bruce Beatty on a walk...

ANOTHER VICTIM ZONE ROBBERY: Gunman robs Fifth Third bank

2:58pm Monday, May 24, 2004
This is the third bank (or bank customer) and fifth business on the Do Not Patronize While Armed list to have been robbed in the past two weeks. May 22, 2004 Marion Star MARION -- Officers are searching for a black male and female in connection with a Friday afternoon Fifth Third Bank armed robbery. The pair entered the bank from the parking lot at about 4 p.m. The man drew a weapon and demanded...

Card-Carrying Members

11:21am Monday, May 24, 2004
May 23, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine When the Middlefield Giant Eagle posted a "no concealed weapons" sign last month, Scott Weber threatened to take his $200-a-week grocery business to the competition. Weber, who owns The Gunrunner, a gun store and auction company in Burton, says he stowed his gun in his car and returned to the store to speak with the manager. After he stated his...

70-year old woman assaulted/ carjacked in ''No-Weapons'' Kroger parking lot

8:16am Monday, May 24, 2004
Broad daylight in a Kroger victim zone... 5/22/04 WCPO.com & Cincinnati Enquirer Man Assaults 70-Year Old Woman, Steals Car A 70-year old Tri-state woman is recovering Saturday night after a man assaulted her in a supermarket parking lot as he stole her vehicle. Colerain Township police say Hazel Clemons was returning to her car at the Kroger on Colerain Avenue just before 1 p.m. Saturday. A...

Dairy Mart RAPE

7:36am Saturday, May 22, 2004
This tragic victimization brings to mind a whole host of troubling issues, including the dangerous prospect of being forced to disarm at posted businesses and other victim zones, restrictive car carry language (plain sight in a holster on the persons' person) in Ohio's new concealed carry law, which is much more difficult for a woman to comply with, and of course that CHLs are forbidden to adults...

FBI BULLETIN: LOOKOUT FOR SUICIDE BOMBERS INSIDE THE U.S.

8:47am Friday, May 21, 2004
May 20, 2004 Drudge Report Warns Officials To Look for People Wearing Bulky Jackets on Warm Days; Smell of Chemicals; Trailing Wires from Jackets Bombers May Disguise Selves As Pregnant Women New York - The FBI has disseminated to 18,000 law enforcement agencies an intelligence bulletin advising police officials to be on the lookout for suicide bombers attempting to strike inside the US, TIME's...

Reasons NOT to post ''No-CCW'' signs getting through, even to opponents

8:11am Friday, May 21, 2004
May 21, 2004 Columbus Dispatch Woman misses point on concealed carry First of all, we are not supporters of Ohio’s concealed-carry law, and we do not advocate anyone carrying a handgun for "personal protection." But we are concerned about the feelings of Susan Morelli-Wolf, who wrote thanking the Ohioans for Concealed Carry for posting a list of businesses that are barring guns (letter, Monday)...

Another day, another FirstMerit bank robbery AT "POSTED" BRANCH

7:43am Friday, May 21, 2004
This week, a new policy of banning firearms in FirstMerit Bank's Ohio branches began to be enforced. Signs were posted in several branches, with word that they will be posted in all Ohio branches. The bank has not had signs posted in their Pennsylvania branches, although that state has had a concealed carry law since the late 1980's. Pictured in the print version of the paper are bank personnel...

IRONY: Kroger employee honored for courage

4:00pm Thursday, May 20, 2004
May 20, 2004 Columbus Dispatch Bagger visits store where he took bullet to save co-worker John Brining walked through the automatic doors at the Canal Winchester Kroger yesterday a hero. The last time he passed through the doors, he was being rushed to a hospital March 30 after taking a bullet in the abdomen while protecting a co-worker. Family members, friends and co-workers surrounded Brining,...

National City Bank reconsidering Ohio CCW stance?

3:27pm Thursday, May 20, 2004
Just last week, National City Bank began sending emails to concerned customers, announcing that "National City believes in the safety of its customers. We have taken a stance on preventing employees and customers from concealing a weapon on our premises. Therefore, no weapons may be brought onto National City property or inside a National City building. If you have additional concerns, please...

Op-Ed: Correcting the bad, praising the good about recent CCW editorial

3:13pm Thursday, May 20, 2004
On Friday, May 7, a guest editorial by Mr. Clarence J. Brown was published in all the Brown Publishing-owned newspapers, entitled "Be Careful What You Wish For" (unfortunately the editorial pages are not available on the web sites). The article addressed concealed carry, some of the more prominent problems, and the issue of businesses posting signs banning CCW. While very good on addressing the...

124 [licenses] issued in county to carry concealed weapons

2:29pm Thursday, May 20, 2004
May 18, 2004 Marietta Times More than 200 area residents have applied for permits to carry concealed weapons since a new law allowing Ohioans to carry them went into effect last month. Of those who have applied, 124 Washington County residents have been issued permits and are allowed to carry hidden handguns. Another 100 area residents are still going through the application process, according to...

Clerk says he shot to save his life in robbery

2:24pm Thursday, May 20, 2004
One more excellent follow-up story on an occurrence that anti-gun pundits claimed would never happen... May 18, 2004 Toledo Blade Habib Howard's eyes never left the suspect's handgun. The robber kept the weapon at waist level when he held up Mr. Howard's West Toledo carryout. As the man backed out of the store, he raised the gun in a threatening manner. That's when Mr. Howard decided it was...

Ironic timing for FirstMerit bank to begin posting discriminatory signs

1:01pm Wednesday, May 19, 2004
OFCC supporters have reported that signs have been posted today at two FirstMerit branches (Massillon and Mentor), and OFCC has learned that the Akron-based corporation made the decision to post them some weeks ago, and that it is just now being carried out. The irony of the timing for their order to be carried out cannot be more finely pointed out than by simply reading the last few days'...

Op-Ed: A tale of two cultures proves value of firearms, bankruptcy of gun bans

12:10pm Wednesday, May 19, 2004
By Dave Workman Separated by several states and an obvious cultural gap, two recent stories about crime - one from Ohio and the other from Oregon - perhaps best illustrate why a growing number of American citizens have concluded that the police can't protect us, and neither can gun control laws or anti-gun corporate policies. align="right"> Police were quick to apprehend a suspect in the May 4...

Workplace shootings took 69 lives in '03, group says

11:50am Wednesday, May 19, 2004
May 13, 2004 Cincinnati Enquirer WASHINGTON - November's killings at a West Chester trucking company helped make 2003 the deadliest year for workplace shootings in the past decade, an anti-gun group said Wednesday. Sixty-nine people were killed and 46 wounded in 45 workplace shootings last year. Workplace shootings nearly doubled from 2002 to 2003, according to "Terror Nine to Five: Guns in the...

OOPS! Brady Campaign touts study proving OUR point (again)

11:36am Wednesday, May 19, 2004
May 10, 2004 Jointogether.org Calif. Survey: One in Five Teens Live with Guns A survey by the University of California at Los Angeles finds that nearly 20 percent of 5,801 California adolescents polled live in homes were firearms are present, the Health Behavior News Service reported April 29. According to the survey, white, male Americans ages 14 to 17 living in higher-income or rural households...

Letter to the Editor: Doctor vows his office won't be a gun-free zone

11:23am Wednesday, May 19, 2004
May 15, 2004 Columbus Dispatch "Dr. Johnston," a colleague asked me yesterday, "Aren’t you going to fill out the application to keep concealed weapons out of your office?" A physician wouldn’t want guns in his office, right? I walked into the hospital to see a patient yesterday, and I saw one of the placards: "No weapons of any kind are allowed inside this building." Buses have them posted. We...

Editorial Claim: “No need for fast guns”

10:42am Tuesday, May 18, 2004
May 14, 2004 Columbus Dispatch Sheriffs should take time necessary to handle concealed-carry permits Like it or not — and The Dispatch doesn’t — the legislature has given Ohioans the right to carry concealed weapons after they have been issued a permit by a county sheriff. The state’s 88 sheriffs now have the responsibility of taking applications and screening them to make sure applicants have...

GM pays for employees 12 hr. Gun Safety class

10:38am Tuesday, May 18, 2004
----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Stuka Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 Attention everyone who is an employee of General Motors, Ford, or Chrysler: The GM Parma, OH. plant has agreed to pay for a 12 hour gun safety class for its employees. This $165 will now be covered under the Tuition Assistance Plan (TAP). At the Parma plant, we have had approx. 600-800 people sign up for this class, making...

TARTA’s illegal victim zone signs didn't stop this ''armed'' criminal

10:23am Tuesday, May 18, 2004
TARTA learns what Dairy Mart now knows...criminals don't care about weapons prohibitions. TARTA got a bonus - they learned that if all the firearms in the world magically disappeared, criminals would simply switch to items as innocent as a broomstick. May 17, 2004 Toledo Blade Man arrested in robbery of East Toledo carryout A man who, police say, menaced a carryout clerk with a broomstick during...

Minster man guilty of stalking woman

10:14am Tuesday, May 18, 2004
This woman moved, changed her phone number, and even obtained a protection order to hide from this stalker. Had she obtained a CHL, some Ohio newspapers would have aided this man with his goal of pursuing her, by publishing her name with other CHL-holders, as callously as they would publish a list of sex offenders. May 6, 2004 Dayton Daily News XENIA | A Minster man will be sentenced June 18...

Op-Ed: Guns, like abortion, are a matter of choice

10:10am Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Polls suggest less than half of the country will agree will this editorialist on her opinion about abortion. Polls show nearly 80% of the country will agree with her on protecting the right to choose to bear arms for self-defense. We are sharing this article not to enter into the debate over abortion, but rather to encourage consideration by those liberals (we know you’re reading!) who believe in...

Past week tough on defenseless Ohioans; Columbus eatery customers fight back

5:53pm Monday, May 17, 2004
Cincinnati: Violent murder seen as "public relations nightmare" for city Police said Friday that a 17-year-old robbed Robbie Harris of cash before shooting him to death at Seventh and Vine streets about 12:20 a.m. Thursday. "When a 17-year-old man leaves home with a gun, intent on doing a bad thing, there is virtually nothing any of us can do to prevent it,'' Capt. James Whalen, commander of...

Hypocritical bank policy suggests fear of Ohio citizens

2:41pm Monday, May 17, 2004
by Chad D. Baus UPDATE: National City Bank reconsidering Ohio CCW stance? The following story should be read in the context of this reality: According to the FBI, under the 150-year old concealed carry ban, Ohio earned one of the highest rates of bank robbery in the nation. Do these banks really believe that signs will deter the criminals? Founded in 1845 and headquartered in Cleveland, National...

What boycott? We're doing exactly what posted businesses ask...

10:33am Monday, May 17, 2004
Several Ohio newspapers, including the Athens News and Canton Repository , have recently printed follow-up stories regarding local reaction to OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed list. Most mistakenly referred to the effort as a "boycott". The following letter has been submitted to each of those publications, and is expected to appear in papers across the state throughout the week. Concealed-...

Don't miss this Delaware-area CCW Forum!

10:25am Monday, May 17, 2004
This is perhaps the first Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Ohio CCW Forum in which the truth on What Businesses Need to Know will be presented. Bagels & Business... ...A VERY Important Program that You Won't Want to Miss!!! "Firearms, What it Means for Your Business" Panelists: Representative James Aslanides Vice Mayor Steve Cuckler, Delaware City Council Captain Rose, Delaware City Police...

Many more Ohio businesses remove discriminatory signs

10:05am Monday, May 17, 2004
In the wake of nationwide attention on Ohioans For Concealed Carry's effort to inform CHL-holders of where their business is not wanted, Ohio's media is giving significant attention to a FEW businesses on the "Do Not Patronize While Armed" list who are refusing to reconsider their discriminatory policies. Very few reporters have mentioned, let alone called to interview, the many businesses (...

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