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Political donors go wild in Ohio

9:22am Wednesday, February 04, 2004
January 31, 2004 Associated Press GOP has $3.6 million to spend on elections; Democrats far behind COLUMBUS - The Ohio House Republican Campaign Committee raised an off-year record $3.6 million in 2003 for this year's elections, led by a $510,000 donation from Rep. Jon Husted's campaign, reports filed Friday with the secretary of state's office showed. Just six campaign committees were...

Letter to the Editor: Armed citizens are happy, free people

8:01am Wednesday, February 04, 2004
February 4, 2004 Toledo Blade Drivers never expect to need the air bags in their car, but we are grateful for them when the unexpected happens. No one wakes up thinking, "today I will be robbed, beaten, raped, or murdered." But when the unthinkable occurs, a concealed firearm is often the best - and only - insurance that person has to survive a violent encounter. Marilou Johanek claims the 145-...

What is the MATRIX? A privacy advocate's worst nightmare

7:37am Wednesday, February 04, 2004
Ohio joins multistate antiterror database Police can search billions of records; privacy invasion, some say Dayton Daily News February 04, 2004 COLUMBUS -- Despite privacy concerns, Ohio is one of six states signed up to use powerful computer technology that will allow police to search billions of records to root out criminal and terrorist suspects with lightning speed. MATRIX — Multistate Anti-...

Wisconsin gun banners show just how extreme they are

3:17pm Tuesday, February 03, 2004
Having already seen his veto on concealed carry legislation overridden in the Wisconsin Senate, Democrat Governor Jim Doyle is holding out hope today that he can avoid being overridden in the Assembly - perhaps for the same reason Taft avoided the same in Ohio - some pro-CCW legislators may care more for party politics than defenseless citizens. ( UPDATE: Wisconsin Assembly falls one vote short...

The Truth about Concealed Carry and Business

1:08pm Monday, February 02, 2004
by Chad D. Baus 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 owners to discriminate against employees and customers who choose to obtain a concealed handgun license (CHL) for self-protection, as witnessed in the Jan. 26 letter to Crain's Cleveland Business magazine...

Columbus homicide rate increasing...OSU prof imagines ties to CCW

12:36pm Monday, February 02, 2004
Homicide rate increasing January 30, 2004 The (OSU) Lantern Thirty days into January, Columbus has already seen six homicides. At this rate, the city may accumulate even more murders than last year, when it reached 112 - one of the highest murder rates in the last two decades. "If we look back in the files over the last couple decades, it's just been a rollercoaster," said Sherry Mercurio,...

Gun prohibitionists seek traction in Akron restaurants

8:03am Monday, February 02, 2004
Feb. 02, 2004 Akron Beacon Journal Restaurants, county keep guns at bay New concealed-carry law leaves prohibiting firearms up to operator Restaurant owner Ed Davidian said when it comes to his Country Diners, guns will be joining cigars and pipes on the list of unwelcome items. "We're a family type of restaurant. I don't see where a gun is necessary in our businesses. I just don't see that,''...

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, where did your intelligence go?

3:31pm Sunday, February 01, 2004
The following is the just latest sour grapes liberal media rant against Ohio's new concealed carry law, as published in the Dayton Daily News. Gun law conceals its danger By Mary McCarty Dayton Daily News January 31, 2004 I already felt worried enough about what's going to happen come April 8, when just about anybody you meet in Ohio could be carrying a concealed weapon. Think about it. That isn'...

It's election time in Ohio again, and the OFCC PAC needs your help!

1:44pm Saturday, January 31, 2004
For those of you who are new to this website, a brief Election Season history is in order: A little over one year ago, several OFCC members formed the OFCC Political Action Committee ( www.buckeyefirearms.org ). Time was critical - there were only 60 days before the November 2002 elections. We told potential supporters that the time was ripe to make a difference, and to reinforce the General...

U.S. Senator: Prosecute crime — not guns

1:05pm Saturday, January 31, 2004
January 29, 2004 Deseret News WASHINGTON — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch says new Justice Department figures support longtime GOP claims that the best way to fight violence with guns is not to outlaw the guns, but to prosecute criminals. Data released Wednesday showed that as federal prosecution of gun crimes increased 68 percent from three years ago under the Bush...

Op-Ed: If the media is watching Big Brother, who is watching them?

5:50pm Friday, January 30, 2004
January 30, 2004 by Gerard Valentino The recent debate over public records provisions in Ohio's concealed carry law sent the media into full blown fits about infringing freedom of the press and their self-proclaimed position as protectors of the common person from abuses by Big Brother. Hearing them describe their defense of the commoner conjures up images of valiant crusades headed by knights in...

Letter to the Editor: There won't be any shootouts

4:49pm Friday, January 30, 2004
January 30, 2004 Akron Beacon Journal The only thing loaded about the concealed-weapon issue is the media and certain elected officials. The Jan. 9 story about the new Ohio law ("Concealed guns a loaded issue'') amazed me. Too bad I have to wait until April for the shootouts in the streets. Our elected officials and the Beacon Journal insult all Ohioans with the assumption that we can't be...

Letters to the Editor: Toledo Blade's concealed carry law attitude patronizing

4:39pm Friday, January 30, 2004
January 30, 2004 Toledo Blade I was offended by your "we know what is really good for you attitude." You spoke harshly and inanely against the concealed-carry law just passed in Ohio. When was the last time any of you walked the mean streets of Toledo? Those of us who live and work in Toledo have been under fire from the criminals for a very long time, and it seems to be intensifying. If I, for...

Cincy Post editorial highlights failure of Ohio gun control laws

3:30pm Friday, January 30, 2004
01-28-2004 Cincinnati Post Getting weapons off the streets The value of equipping police with non-lethal weapons has been shown at least twice this month. Last week, Cincinnati police successfully used a stun gun on a suspect who was reaching for a gun as he struggled with officers who had run him down in a foot chase. It was the type of situation that could easily enough have forced officers to...

Cincinnatians ask ''why can't the police control this?''

8:45am Friday, January 30, 2004
January 28, 2004 Cincinnati Enquirer WEST END - Mary Lockett's Dayton Street home in the West End has been broken into five times since Thursday. align="right"> The burglars took countless items, including jewelry, china dishes and other family heirlooms. They were even bold enough to smoke half a pack of cigarettes and devour a pot of chili that was sitting on her stove. "I want to find out...

Ohio Attorney General's office issues overview/Q & A documents on new CHL law

3:56pm Thursday, January 29, 2004
The Ohio Attorney General's office is currently in the process of preparing for the state's new concealed handgun license (CHL) law to take effect on April 7. One of the first actions by the AG have been to summarize the main provisions of the law, and to answer the most frequently asked questions about how the law will be implemented. This effort has been excellent as a means of putting to rest...

Ohio Concealed Carry Education Foundation Established

11:53pm Wednesday, January 28, 2004
CONTACT: [email protected] http://www.ohioccwtraining.org CLEVELAND, Jan 29 – Ohioans For Concealed Carry, Ohio’s largest grassroots concealed carry rights organization, announced the formation of the OFCC Education Foundation. The new organization is responsible for the state’s largest concealed carry training network. “When we started Ohioans For Concealed Carry our long term plans always...

Taft spinners trying to put a new face on years of anti-self-defense rhetoric

11:16pm Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Whether a student or not, campus journalism is always good for a read...and sometimes good for a laugh. But as we read this story from the student voice of the Ohio State University, we're not laughing at the writer. Instead, we're laughing at Bob Taft's sudden conversion into a concealed carry advocate. What to do about concealed guns Taft hopes to ease concerns The (OSU) Lantern (to read the...

Freud does journalism?

10:32pm Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Recently, asute readers have been treated to a couple of tasty freudian slips in mentions of Ms. Toby Hoover's personal anti-gun campaign, the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence. In a recent article, an OSU Lantern writer referred to Hoover's group as the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Control , and said Hoover "would applaud Taft's efforts on initiating background checks, only if he plans to update...

Deja vu all over again: ''Million'' Mommer trying to scare businesses with op-ed

12:31pm Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Crain's Cleveland Business editors and "Million" Mom/ Brady Bunch Clevelander Lori O'Neill have quite a history together. In March of 2003, CCB editors published an editorial opposing the reformation of concealed carry laws in Ohio. This editorial bore striking similarity to a letter printed in multiple Ohio papers earier that month, written by Ms. O'Neill. Despite their recent legislative defeat...

Feds more concerned with right to privacy than state bureaucrats?

10:47am Wednesday, January 28, 2004
During the decade-long fight to restore Ohioans' self-defense rights, the gun ban lobby tried everything to derail the effort. At nearly every turn, the Ohio Senate and Gov. Taft seemed all too willing to let the opposition write our new law. One of the issues the extremists fought for was a background check that included scans for persons who were "mentally ill". As with all their roadblocks,...

More Senior Citizens Armed with Guns

5:35pm Tuesday, January 27, 2004
January 25, 2004 KPLC TV - Lake Charles/Layfayette, LA The number of crimes involving firearms is down, but still in 2002, more than 350-thousand people were the victims of a gun crime. Some people have said "enough" and are fighting back and arming themselves. The majority of gun owners used to be mostly middle aged, but now, seniors -- those 65 and older -- are most likely to be armed. align="...

Zogby polls on voters' views on CCW & other firearm owners' rights

7:25am Monday, January 26, 2004
In a pre-9/11 poll, 67% of Ohioans said they preferred a CCW law that had training and background checks. Yet this isn't what we've been hearing from the gun ban lobby, now is it? After reading these results from Zogby, you'll have good reason to expect that 67% figure has gone up in Ohio, as the numbers have gone up nationwide. We certainly don't expect to be seeing these new findings in the...

Gun owner: I, not cops, got bad guy

6:50am Monday, January 26, 2004
Jan. 22, 2004 Chicago Sun-Times Three days after Christmas, someone broke into the DeMar family home in Wilmette through a dog door, stealing a television, an SUV and the keys to the home. The next night, Hale DeMar was prepared for a return visit. With his children upstairs, DeMar, 54, shot burglar Morio Billings, 31, in the shoulder and calf, police said. Billings was caught at a nearby...

Letter to the editor: Some gun bill provisions deserve to be repealed

4:25pm Sunday, January 25, 2004
Middletown Journal 01.17.04 Sour grapes. That’s what seeps out of the sardonic editorial (“Gun bill provisions will be next target”) in the Jan. 10 Journal. The most ludicrous of these “targeted provisions” in Ohio’s new concealed carry law is this one: Reporters are allowed to learn the names of permit-holders. Now why would our beloved newspaper object to this provision being removed from the...

Plain Dealer opinions spill onto news pages

3:12pm Sunday, January 25, 2004
Seemingly not content with their three editorials on the subject , the Cleveland Plain Dealer's latest rant about the open records issue and concealed carry is written in the form of "news". Concealing weapons & records 01/25/04 Julie Carr Smyth Columbus - A battle is under way in America over whether you deserve to know who is carrying a concealed handgun - and Ohio is at its heart. When Gov...

ABC News and 20/20 engage in a bit of truth-telling on guns

11:46am Saturday, January 24, 2004
May wonders never cease. Nestled in amongst a 20/20 report on urban legends comes this little gem. So the question is, will ABC stop falsely reporting it? Lies, Myths and Downright Stupidity (John) Stossel's List of Popularly Reported Misconceptions Myth No. 3 — Guns are Bad America is notorious for its culture of gun violence. Guns sometimes do cause terrible harm, and many kids are killed every...

Cleveland lawyer shopping anti-self-defense op-ed

11:06am Saturday, January 24, 2004
Attorney Stephanie E. Trudeau, a Cleveland employment and labor lawyer who can be reached at [email protected] or (216) 621-8400, has issued an anti-self-defense press release instructing businesses on the merits of banning licensees from carrying their firearms while at work, while shopping, or simply while visiting on business. This attorney's agenda is as transparent as it is one-sided. What...

Law enforcement cuts statewide - only YOU can protect you

9:34am Saturday, January 24, 2004
Champaign County sheriff to cut force Tight budget blamed; 29 will lose jobs by month's end January 24, 2004 Cox News Service URBANA -- The Champaign County Sheriff's Office will lay off more than half its 52-member force at midnight Jan. 30, the sheriff said Friday night. Twenty-nine workers — including all lieutenants, sergeants, detectives and part-time employees — will be furloughed. "This is...

Toledo police: Self-defense a ''right'' you shouldn't exercise

3:49pm Friday, January 23, 2004
January 23, 2004 Toledo Blade Carryout owners have the right to defend themselves with guns and baseball bats, if necessary, Toledo police Chief Michael Navarre said yesterday. The chief, speaking at a City Council hearing to a roomful of carryout owners, stressed that nonresistance is the best response to an armed robber. But pressed by business owners to explain their rights to use deadly force...

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