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Man beaten and robbed while at work

8:14am Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Ohio's businesses have NO business infringing on their employees' and customers' right to bear arms for self-defense. Police seek 2 men who beat, robbed lawn-service owner February 24, 2004 Columbus Dispatch A robbery in Blendon Township is the crime of the week in the Crime Stoppers program. On Feb. 15, the owner of McLain’s Lawn Service, 6161 Westerville Rd., surprised two men stealing rock...

HIV rape suspect set free by mistake

7:54am Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Akron man carrying virus accused of sexual assault mistakenly let out of jail Feb. 24, 2004 Akron Beacon Journal An HIV-infected Akron man accused of raping a man and beating another was mistakenly released from the Summit County Jail almost two weeks ago. So far, sheriff's deputies have been unable to locate Patrick C. Geiger, 35, who was allowed to leave the county jail Feb. 13 on a signature...

Victim Zone: Armed robbers strike on & near near UC again

7:44am Tuesday, February 24, 2004
On-campus theft attempted as well February 24, 2004 The (University of Cincinnati) News Record Another armed robbery was reported early Friday morning, and an on-campus theft attempt was reported Thursday. Two men with handguns approached four students at about 1:30 a.m. Friday on Warner Street near West Clifton Avenue and demanded their money, according to the students. "We just gave them what...

Another plain-clothes officer thwarts crime

7:30pm Monday, February 23, 2004
This carjacker had little way to know his intended victim was actually a plain-clothes police officer. The more armed citizens carjackers and other criminals can expect to encounter in Ohio, the fewer chances they'll take... February 20, 2004 Cincinnati Enquirer Suspect Charged With Attempted Murder Of An Officer Cincinnati Police have charged a North Fairmount man with attempted murder of an...

Ohio Library Council has hand out - and discriminatory signs up

7:14pm Monday, February 23, 2004
According to a recent Toledo Blade story, the Ohio Library Council is currently galavanting across the state, recommending that libraries post discriminatory signs banning concealed handgun license (CHL) -holders. OFCC has learned that bureaucrats at the Cleveland Public Libraries, as well as Lorain Public Libraries, are planning to post signs banning firearms, including those openly carried (...

Local Ch. 12 Television Survey on 2/19/02

6:48pm Monday, February 23, 2004
OFCC supporter GTC submitted the following story to the OFCC website. On 2/19/04, the local television station (Ch. 12) in Cincinnati, Ohio, ran a survey on their 5 o'clock newscast. They wanted to see, if, the viewing public felt the new "concealed weapons law would reduce or have an effect on the crime rate in Greater Cincinnati. The above survey was run along with an interview of a local...

Deputy jumps gun, then points it at men

6:44pm Monday, February 23, 2004
February 21, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer Lakewood-Two men searching in a friend's car for change to pay their bar tab were surprised by an off-duty Cuyahoga County sheriff's deputy who thought they were stealing from the car and stuck a loaded gun in their faces, police said. The deputy also put his gun to the head of the car owner and aimed the weapon at a man talking on a cell phone nearby,...

Plan would erase concealed-weapons permits database

6:25pm Monday, February 23, 2004
The Rotten Apples and Sour Grapes in Ohio's media must shiver at the thought of having to post headlines like these in Ohio. That day will come. February 19, 2004 Rocky Mountain News A measure that would erase the Colorado Bureau of Investigation's database of concealed-weapons permits is headed to the Colorado House. House Bill 1205 would change a law passed last year that created statewide...

Youth has its day at Council

6:19pm Monday, February 23, 2004
February 23, 2004 Fremont News-Messenger Concealed weapons, reckless driving in school zones and economic development were among the key issues discussed by area high school students for the city's annual Youth Government Day. About 25 students from both Ross and St. Joe High Schools conducted a 30 minute mock-meeting following Fremont City Council's regularly scheduled meeting Thursday night...

Dayton Children's Medical Center planning to discriminate against CHL-holders

4:28pm Monday, February 23, 2004
OFCC has learned that Children's Medical Center in Dayton, a privately-owned, for-profit hospital, has adopted the Ohio Hospital Association's victim-zone mentality, and is planning to post discriminatory signs to ward off law-abiding customers. According to our sources, the following internal communication was recently dispatched by hospital bureaucrats: Children's working on policy to prevent...

The Friend of Mine Enemy Is My...

2:16pm Monday, February 23, 2004
Feb. 22, 2004 Akron Beacon Journal County executive endorses candidate AKRON - Summit County Executive James B. McCarthy has endorsed candidate Gregg Cramer of Fairlawn in the Democratic primary race for state representative from the 41st House District. Cramer is running against Clark Hosick and Brian Williams, both of Akron. Commentary: In late January, Summit Co. Executive James McCarthy...

Two state senators face challengers within their parties

3:45pm Sunday, February 22, 2004
February 22, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer Two incumbent state senators in Northeast Ohio face primary challenges on March 2, and a pair of local state representatives are facing off for a third Senate seat. Sen. Bob Spada, a North Royalton Republican first appointed to the Senate in 1999, faces opposition from Broadview Heights Councilman Donald Sopka. Meanwhile, appointed Sen. Kimberly Ann Zurz...

Akron PD to give block-watch group advice on new CHL law

3:35pm Sunday, February 22, 2004
February 22, 2004 Akron Beacon Journal AKRON: The Akron Police Department has started a Main Street block-watch group for businesses in downtown Akron. Police will regularly share information with block-watch members about downtown crime and crime suspects. Officers also will offer members classes on personal safety. The first meeting will be at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Harry Buffalo, 222 S. Main St...

Sheriffs attend training on new CHL law in Columbus

3:25pm Sunday, February 22, 2004
Ohio working out 'bugs' in concealed law February 22, 2004 Palladium-Item (Richmond, IN) EATON, Ohio -- Camden resident Jan Gitz expects to be among the estimated 71,000 Ohio residents who will carry a concealed weapon under House Bill 12 this year. Gitz is self-employed and her work takes her out on the road late at night and sometimes to neighborhoods where she feels unsafe. She supported...

Audit finds trouble in city Police Department

2:11pm Saturday, February 21, 2004
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 02/20/04 Atlanta's troubled Police Department for years has failed to confront a serious crime problem and has even downplayed it, a new audit concludes. Police Chief Richard Pennington said the report, to be released today, describes a department where crime reports have been either intentionally suppressed or lost through sloppy record keeping. The result has...

Letter to the Editor: Toledo Police surely have better things to do

1:56pm Saturday, February 21, 2004
February 21, 2004 Toledo Blade It's official. There are two people in each anti-smoking detection squad. Along with them is at least one Toledo police officer and a police vehicle. I can't believe the mayor and city council are wasting resources that should be out protecting the community and getting real criminals off the street. Criminals are killing and maiming ordinary Toledo citizens...

Dayton Daily News: Gun lobby shows clout in Ohio

by Chad D. Baus
1:01pm Saturday, February 21, 2004
Editor's Note: The DDN contacted the author in preparation for this story, which reveals that pro-concealed carry letters, calls, faxes and emails outpaced those sent by anti-gunners by more than 11 to 1 since Taft took office in 1999. Following the DDN story, is documentation of the wealth of information we provided the DDN on the history of OFCC's grassroots fight, but which Bischoff was not...

What Business Owners Need to Know About the Ohio Concealed Handgun Law

2:42pm Friday, February 20, 2004
Ohioans For Concealed Carry has announced the launch of a new, web-based educational guide for business owners, aimed at answering their questions about implementation of the new concealed handgun license (CHL) law. After failing to scare business lobbyists into the fight in 2003, and after loosing in the legislative arena just weeks ago, gun ban lobbyists are now hoping to convince business...

Ohio's working families deserve right to self-defense to and from jobs

2:04pm Friday, February 20, 2004
Man shot, injured on way to West End job February 19, 2004 Cincinnati Post A builder on his way to work in the West End today was shot as he drove onto his construction site this morning. Police said the man, Alan Stenger, was stopped by a pedestrian as he was driving a white Dodge Ram pickup into the Reece Campbell construction site at Linn Street and Derrick Turnbow Avenue, at 8:10 a.m. The two...

Right to self-defense coming too late for some domestic violence victims

12:53pm Friday, February 20, 2004
Woman shot in front of son, 10 February 20, 2004 Cincinnati Post HIGHLAND HEIGHTS -- At sunrise Wednesday, with three blasts from a high-caliber rifle, the troubled lives and marriage of Charles and Cloay Swope came crashing down right before the horrified eyes of their 10-year-old son. So unreal, it seemed to neighbors, spotting Cloay's lifeless body collapsed in a pool of blood on the front...

Toledo Library board will post signs banning guns

11:09am Friday, February 20, 2004
February 20, 2004 Toledo Blade Pistol-packing library patrons will have to leave their guns in their cars. The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library Board of Trustees voted yesterday to post signs outside the system’s libraries announcing that no firearms can be taken inside its buildings in response to the state’s concealed carry law, which takes effect in April. Library Director Clyde Scoles said...

OFCC announces establishment of Ohio Media Monitoring Task Force

4:21pm Thursday, February 19, 2004
CLEVELAND, February 19, 2004 – Ohioans For Concealed Carry, Ohio’s largest grassroots concealed carry rights organization, has announced the formation of the OFCC Media Monitoring Task Force ( [email protected] ). The organization, comprised totally of grassroots volunteers from across the state, will monitor Ohio's media outlets, documenting any instances of abuse of the public records...

Nugent in Oxford tonight; Rocker praises Open Carry 'Defense' Walkers

12:37pm Thursday, February 19, 2004
OFCC's Larry Moore had the opportunity to interview Ted Nugent for a story to promote his appearance at Miami University at Oxford tonight. In addition, Larry Moore’s upcoming February 27 column Moore Outdoors will be featuring Ted Nugent. "Bring your friends to Miami University," Nugent said. "We need to get the word out there. The truth is a beautiful thing. It is contagious. Everyone has an...

Op-Ed: Waiting for gun permit can be deadly

12:23pm Thursday, February 19, 2004
February 15, 2004 (New Hampshire) Union Leader By BERNADETTE MALONE NEVER DID I expect to wind up living alone, in a new area, with a violent acquaintance threatening me because of some perceived offense. Never did I expect to ever need to carry my handgun to and from work in case that man tracked me down and physically threatened me. So naturally, I didn’t have the paperwork I needed to defend...

Toledo's rage against self-defense takes a TARTA bus ride

11:33am Thursday, February 19, 2004
by Chad D. Baus The City of Toledo has quite a history of discrimination against Second Amendment rights, especially when lower income residents try to exercise their rights. According to the Toledo Blade, Toledo's controversial ban on inexpensive firearms (which was renewed in 2002 after a tie-breaking vote from Mayor Jack Ford ), has been used for just one conviction since 2000 . The ban has...

Youngstown: Some hail, others fear concealed-carry law

5:33pm Wednesday, February 18, 2004
One local gun shop has had a large increase in business in recent weeks February 18, 2004 Youngstown Vindicator Diane Demetrios remembers well the intruder who once entered her Boardman candy shop and robbed a teenage worker at knife-point. Standing in her business, where shiny, decorative hearts dangle over a tempting array of treats, Demetrios cited the episode in explaining why she backs the...

Op-Ed: Ohio sniper and disarmed populace

2:25pm Wednesday, February 18, 2004
February 18, 2004 Joseph Farah WorldNetDaily.com The case of the Ohio sniper is a perfect illustration of the dangers of disarming the public – and leaving crime-prevention and deterrence to the government. The sniper has been shooting at people and cars since November of last year. He is linked to at least 24 shootings, including one murder. Last weekend, he took a potshot at a Chevrolet...

Reminder: Ted Nugent at Ohio University Thursday!

5:31pm Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Press Release - February 12, 2004 Oxford, OH - Today, the Miami University College Republicans announced that the keynote speaker for the annual club sponsored Conservative Week will be Second Amendment activist and author of the New York Times Bestseller God, Guns, and Rock-n-Roll , Ted Nugent. Conservative Week is an annual celebration of conservative thought at Miami University sponsored by...

Extremists raging against self-defense. But will they post at their own homes?

5:15pm Tuesday, February 17, 2004
We've been warning for months that the gun ban extremists' would resort to even more irrational scare tactics (mainly targeted at businesses) than already known for, after Ohio legislature finally passed a concealed carry law. On August 29, 2003, we published a story about how a man in Minnesota was actually working to put people in a great deal of danger, by offering "Carries No Gun" t-shirts...

AP: Glitch identifies Amazon reviewers

1:04pm Tuesday, February 17, 2004
February 14, 2004 The Associated Press NEW YORK -- Many sign their names. Many don't. They're the book reviewers on Amazon.com who use such words as "masterful," "page-turner" and "tear-jerker." But the ones who sign their critiques only as "a reader from (fill in the city)" lost their anonymity this week when their identities were revealed on Amazon.com's Canadian Web site. Among those named...

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