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Ohio man stops violent offender; charged with crime

9:58am Friday, October 24, 2003
Van Wert Independant October 15, 2003 Man shot at Restwell said improving The condition of a man shot early Tuesday morning after he allegedly beat up a former girlfriend at the Restwell Apartments has been upgraded, according to a Van Wert County Sheriff's Department spokesperson. Robert L. King, 25, of Convoy is now listed in serious condition after surgery Tuesday at Parkview Hospital in Fort...

Growth of Ohio Victim List undeterred - Conferees need to act quickly

2:12pm Thursday, October 23, 2003
The fight to restore the right to bear arms for self-defense has always been about two key issues: 1) Allowing citizens the right to choose not to be a victim. 2) Lowering violent crime. Amongst the recent Conference Committee appointment and 'Defense Walk' headlines, Ohio newspapers are filled with stories of continued victimations by criminals who could care less if concealed weapons are...

Gun Control Extremists Advocate Open Carry?!?

10:22am Thursday, October 23, 2003
"Ohioans already have the right to carry guns and other weapons openly but not concealed. Anyone who believes he is in danger can holster a pistol on his waist or tote a shotgun around wherever he goes." - Columbus Dispatch anti-CCW editorial, June 22, 2001 Now that more and more citizens across the state have chosen to begin doing just that, the silence about 'Defense' Walks from liberal...

OFCC's Chad Baus participates in CCW debate on live tv show

4:36pm Wednesday, October 22, 2003
On Thursday, October 16, Senator Lynn Wachtmann appeared as a guest on a live television panel show, along with OFCC spokesperson Chad Baus. Anti-self-defense extremist Toby Hoover was also a guest. The show, entitled The Journal , is produced by the Public Broadcasting Network station WBGU in Bowling Green, Ohio. The program is a discussion/debate format, and features questions posed from a live...

OFCC Statement on Senator White's announcement

8:14am Wednesday, October 22, 2003
We are delighted that Senator White has finally agreed to appoint Senators to the Conference Committee on HB12. Hundreds and hundreds of Ohioans took to the streets in 'Defense' Walks over the past two weeks, asking for this very decision. Family members of Dayton carjacking victim Tony Gordon took part in a memorial 'Defense' Walk in Senator White's hometown of Manchester just days ago. We...

Breakthrough: Senate Conferees Named!!

6:19am Wednesday, October 22, 2003
For over a week, Ohioans For Concealed Carry has been hearing from Senators that President White was telling them he had decided to appoint conferees to a committee on House Bill 12. That news became even more concrete when Senator Lynn Wachtmann appeared on a live television panel show with OFCC's Chad Baus last Thursday, and announced in his opening remarks that he had been told same. OFCC is...

Lima News editorial: Call senators on concealed carry

4:06pm Tuesday, October 21, 2003
Lima News October 14, 2003 Gun owners turned out across the state Sunday to demand that lawmakers remove Ohio’s ban on carrying concealed weapons. It was the right message to send, and those who want to carry concealed guns — or who just believe in allowing responsible people to take steps to ensure their safety — now should send the message more directly. Click on the "Read More..." link below...

Letters to Editors: Fall-out from Supreme Court ruling on editorial pages

2:38pm Monday, October 20, 2003
There have been some truly excellent letters to the editor published across the state in recent days. Click on the "Read More..." link below to view some of our favorites. Where are concealed-carry horror stories? Akron Beacon Journal I want to thank you for your Sept. 26 editorial headlined ``Safety first.'' Your commentary on the fact that the Ohio Supreme Court upheld the ban on carrying...

Tony Gordon Memorial 'Defense' Walk ''the most emotional of them all''

by Chad D. Baus
10:58pm Sunday, October 19, 2003
This 'Defense' Walk was special. It wasn't about cameras or quotes. It wasn't about crowd size or soundbites. It wasn't about the Supreme Court or Republican double-speak. Instead, this Walk was solely focused on the hundreds of victims of violence in our state whose circumstances could have turned out far differently if a concealed carry law had been in effect when they were attacked. The...

Cleveland-area 'Defense' Walk ''total success!''

9:49pm Sunday, October 19, 2003
Nearly 100 people openly carried firearms (and picnicked) at the Potluck Picnic and 'Defense' Walk in Lorain on Sunday. There were men and women of all ages, people young, old, short, tall, black, white - all there supporting our right to self-defense. One participant named Scott, reported that "from the moment the first group stepped off and out of the park, car horns started blowing from...

Toledo-Area 'Defense' Walkers welcomed in Swanton with ''honks, waves & smiles

by Chad D. Baus
9:26pm Sunday, October 19, 2003
Drivers and residents honked car horns and waved, or gave a thumbs-up sign, to the 100+ openly armed 'Defense' Walkers in Swanton Sunday. At least two residents came out and joined the Walk as it progressed by their homes. This group was probably the most diverse, in terms of gender, that we've seen yet. Many women, many families with children. Fox Toledo (Ch. 36) reported that about 100 people...

Columbus billboards ask ''Why the Violence?''

3:23pm Friday, October 17, 2003
Tiny victim is anti-violence crusaders’ biggest hope October 17, 2003 THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH The newly formed Urban Crime Advisory Commission convened its first meeting yesterday under a 40-foot billboard from which the image of 1-day old Alamar John-William Wright looked down. Alamar was killed a month after his birth during a robbery attempt May 29 at his Weinland Park home. He has become the...

Is no 'Defense' Walk news good news for these Ohio media outlets?

2:48pm Friday, October 17, 2003
To read the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Akron Beacon Journal, or Youngstown Vindicator, you'd think there has been no "new" news on the concealed carry effort in the days since the Supreme Court ruling. That's because these three papers have neglected to cover what has been treated by the rest of the state's media as a major news story. Click on the "Read More..." link below for more. They failed to...

Cleveland-area 'Group's weapon walk plan going great guns'

7:30am Friday, October 17, 2003
Lorain Morning Journal 10/17/2003 LORAIN -- This Sunday at high noon a stretch of West Erie Avenue between Lakeview Park and City Hall will resemble the Old West -- if you take away the cars, paved roads, Northeast Ohio climate and traffic lights. About 70 people carrying holstered pistols will walk from the park to City Hall to demonstrate in support of House Bill 12, a state law stalled in...

Swanton walk to protest concealed weapons ban

7:17am Friday, October 17, 2003
Toledo Blade Regional News | Article published Friday, October 17, 2003 SWANTON — Following the lead of “defense” walks in cities such as Columbus, Dayton, and Lima, local organizers will lead their own march Sunday on Main Street in Swanton. The walks are protests in response to a recent Ohio Supreme Court ruling that the state’s ban against carrying concealed weapons is constitutional...

AGAIN: Senate Republicans leave town with unfinished business

2:52pm Thursday, October 16, 2003
The Ohio Senate Republican leadership, under direction of President Doug White, has once again left Columbus without appointing conferees. They will not return to session until after the 2003 Election, and then are only scheduled for one day in November, and a few tentative days in December. In another disappointment, Senate President White has informed Tony Gordon Memorial 'Defense' Walk...

''Solo open-carry in Ohio - a 3-cop encounter''

10:21am Thursday, October 16, 2003
The following note has been posted to the GlockTalk.com discussion list. The writer experienced the following in Northeast Ohio: Took the dog for a walk again today [while openly carrying a loaded firearm, per Supreme Court ruling & current Ohio law]. Was about 150 ft. from the end of the walk at the car lot next to my parents house when a police car with lights on pulls up in front of me. I...

Ohio concealed carry fight aired on Rush Limbaugh program

9:53am Thursday, October 16, 2003
Ohio's Troubles with Liberal Republicans Brings National Attention to Concealed Carry Issue On Tuesday, guest host Tom Sullivan, of Sacramento, latched on to a Wall Street Journal editorial about the burgeoning sales tax revolt in Ohio, and raised the larger subject of liberal Republican politics in Ohio, drawing a parallel to the plight of Californians under former Governor Gray Davis. OFCC's...

Cleveland cowboy action shooters to join Lorain 'Defense' Walkers

8:54pm Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Ohio's largest cowboy action shooting club, The Firelands Peacemakers, has notified Lorain 'Defense' Walk organizer Dan White that their members will join other Clevelanders who plan to openly carry firearms this Sunday in a visual display of the choice Ohioans have before them as a result of the Supreme Court ruling which upheld a ban on concealing a firearm for self-defense. "Opponents of...

Cleveland: public officials AND criminals give welcome to tourists

4:23pm Wednesday, October 15, 2003
In an October 15 editorial, the Cleveland Plain Dealer is singing the praises of reformers who are promising to root out corruption in the Greater Cleveland Convention and Visitors Bureau. "The bureau - which gets more than four-fifths of its budget from taxes on hotel guests - was rocked last spring by news reports of spending on travel, meals and sports outings that seemed to benefit bureau...

Defenseless Toledo ''mall employee raped twice in 4-hour ordeal''

2:28pm Wednesday, October 15, 2003
An employee at a store at Westfield Shoppingtown Franklin Park was forced into her car at knifepoint by a man who raped her in her vehicle at a nearby apartment complex, drove her around for several hours, and sexually assaulted her again in South Toledo. As the 41-year-old Toledo woman walked to her car in the parking lot at the West Toledo mall around 9:10 p.m. Monday, the man approached her...

Toledo gun control policies continue to fail to protect residents from criminals

10:53am Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Toledoans wishing to exercise their recently-upheld Constitutional, "fundamental individual right" to bear arms for self-defense cannot do so in Toledo. The following ordinance is being cited by Chief Mike Navarre as reason for which anyone openly carrying a firearm for self-defense within the city limits would be arrested. Toledo Municipal Code 549.18. Weapon possession in public places...

Dispatch: Academy will train residents to fight crime

9:24am Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Mayor to launch program on South Side October 08, 2003 THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Mayor Michael B. Coleman outlined the final piece of his crime-fighting plan yesterday: the creation of the Neighborhood Safety Academy. The academy doesn’t have a building or charge tuition — it’s a curriculum that would travel to different neighborhoods where city employees would teach residents to prevent and report...

Ohio 'Defense' Walk news goes national

6:47am Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Gun Rights Advocates Take Aim at Concealed Carry Bans By Robert B. Bluey CNSNews.com Staff Writer October 15, 2003 (CNSNews.com) - After victories in five states already this year, concealed carry advocates are turning their attention to the handful of remaining states that continue to prohibit gun owners from carrying a concealed firearm. Battles are brewing in the Ohio and Wisconsin...

Youngstown city bureaucrats infringing on multiple Constitutional rights

3:35pm Tuesday, October 14, 2003
As the grassroots effort to draw attention to the absurdity of the Supreme Court ruling rolls across the state in the form of open carry 'Defense' Walks, organizers have met with overwhelming support from the local governments. The Mayor of Gahanna made an appearance at the Columbus-area Walk, and Chief of Police Dennis Murphy was most helpful and supportive. In Lima, Allen County Sheriff Dan...

Lima open carry 'Defense' Walk brings record turnout

6:32am Monday, October 13, 2003
Lima brought out a healthy mix of its finest citizens in record Walk numbers yesterday. Men and women, people young and old, families with children, persons from multiple ethnic backgrounds - about 150 people participated in the Lima open carry 'Defense' Walk. Links to post-Walk media coverage as they appeared: Toledo Blade: Concealed-carry allies take to the streets Lima News: Lima gun owners...

Dayton-area open carry 'Defense' Walk earns ''thumbs up'' from locals

6:23am Monday, October 13, 2003
Drivers honked car horns and waved, or gave a thumbs-up sign, to Walkers in Xenia yesterday. Here is a quick summary from Walk organizer Larry Moore: WKEF said about 100 people walked in downtown Xenia supporting concealed carry and vividly demonstrating the clear options of open carry on the street versus the many advantages of concealed carry. Media coverage included all the local television...

Columbus-area open carry 'Defense' Walk ''couldn't have gone better''

6:15am Monday, October 13, 2003
They forgot the red carpet. But Gahanna's mayor and police chief had pretty much everything else covered for the 100+ Walkers who came to town Sunday for their open carry demonstration. Here is a quick summary from Walk Organizer Gerard Valentino: "Although 'official' numbers showed 111 walkers, the actual number including some spouses and children was closer to 125. Along the route, several cars...

Letter to the Editor: Moving forward on concealed-carry

6:28am Sunday, October 12, 2003
Toledo Blade October 12, 2003 Senate President Doug White has violated the trust of the people of Ohio by refusing to appoint senators to a conference committee that will work to reconcile differences in the concealed-carry bills adopted by the House and Senate. As a leader of a bicameral legislature, Senator White is obliged to work with his counterparts in the House to adopt legislation that...

Advocates walk to defend the right to carry gun

11:55am Saturday, October 11, 2003
Gahanna News October 8, 2003 By Jef Benedetti Walking to support a cause will get a new twist at 2:00 p.m. Sunday in Veterans Memorial Park, 73 Johnstown Road, in Gahanna. Columbus areas gun advocates for carrying concealed weapons will hold a 'Defense Walk' to protest obstruction they say they believe is happening with the pending legislation in the Ohio Senate to allow Ohio residents to carry a...

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