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AP: Guns, slots still hot-button topics as Legislature breaks for summer

9:46am Wednesday, July 09, 2003
When legislation gets pulled from a committee schedule or the House and Senate cannot agree on a bill, that usually is the end of the line. Not so for two issues: hidden guns and video slot machines. The Legislature recessed for the summer on June 25 without passing a resolution to authorize voters to decide whether to put slots at Ohio racetracks or completing a bill that would allow Ohioans to...

Op-Ed: Hidden guns pose no problem to public

9:02am Wednesday, July 09, 2003
The Springfield News Sun has published an excellent opinion editorial from Champaign County resident Michael Wuest. From statistics to historical experience to political correctness, Wuest covers it all. Below are a couple of favorite exerpts: Exerpt #1: "How about those who say they wouldn’t want to sit in the next booth at a restaurant or near someone who is legally carrying a gun? Well, what...

Only Half Right: Pro-CCW newspaper editors call for Am. Sub. HB12 passage

4:06pm Tuesday, July 08, 2003
Several traditionally pro-self defense rights newspaper editorial boards have recently published editorials calling upon passage of Am. Sub. HB12 (as amended by the Senate). While noble in their intent, it seems these opinions are based on a lack of familiarity with just how egregious the Senate's amendments are (especially the Taft "Car-jacker Protection" provision), and just how many more law-...

Letter to the Editor: Dispatch’s coverage of gun bill too liberal

12:05pm Tuesday, July 08, 2003
Friday, July 04, 2003 Why does The Dispatch continue to print statements that either make no sense or clearly have no rational thought behind them? If the newspaper is going to lean left — and it always does — why not at least offset each article from the left with an opposing one from the right? For example, The Dispatch published the June 19 article "Gun bill fails to sway NRA." Sen. Eric D...

Did Ohio's self-defense ban force this company out of business?

11:26am Thursday, July 03, 2003
In January, we reported on the plight of drivers for Quality Cab Co., Mansfield's only cab company. After two armed robberies in one week , the cab company considered halting services in part of the city. Quality Cab office manager Brad Walker, 44, says "we need to protect our drivers, and it's the civic responsibility for all of us to do the right thing," Walker said. "I don't want to go to the...

Letter to the Editor: Let us exercise our gun rights

10:52am Thursday, July 03, 2003
Word is obviously getting out about Taft's "Car-jacker Protection" provision. This Celina parent is concerned with the potential for criminals to profile cars when children are on board. Lima News July 3, 2003 Is anyone else concerned that the Ohio State Highway Patrol and the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police are effectively dictating the fate of concealed-carry legislation in Ohio? This is...

Women should worry about protecting themselves

10:24am Thursday, July 03, 2003
The following was submitted by an OFCC supporter: WBNS in Columbus today is running an article about a flasher they haven't yet caught who is increasingly outgoing: Police warn women about flasher Members of the Columbus Police sex abuse squad are warning women about a flasher striking around town. They say the extent of his attacks and the degree of violating his victims is escalating, and women...

Police stop Levant (ME) man with toy gun on I-95

10:18am Thursday, July 03, 2003
This article illustrates why having guns on our front car seats, as required by amended substitute H.B. 12, is a bad idea. Click on the "Read More..." link below for the full story. Tuesday, July 1, 2003 Police stop Levant man with toy gun on I-95 WATERVILLE — A 20-year-old Levant man was ordered from his car on Interstate 95 at gun point Sunday by a trooper of the Maine State Police after other...

Letter to the Editor: Concealed-carry bill makes parents targets

9:30am Thursday, July 03, 2003
More for the "What Bob Taft refuses to understand" file - this mom doesn't like the idea of having a bulls-eye painted on her car to appease the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Columbus Dispatch July 3, 2003 I completely concur with Dispatch Senior Editor Joe Hallett's stance on the concealed-carry issue, as stated in his June 22 column. Hallett is correct that substitute House Bill 12, as written,...

Abject failure: Ohio's CCW Ban not working to deter crime

8:56am Thursday, July 03, 2003
YOUNGSTOWN - Greg White looks at the bar graph and just shakes his head. He is appalled at what he sees: the number of homicides in Mahoning County that involve guns, mostly in Youngstown, is staggering. That's why White, the new U.S. attorney for Ohio's Northern district, today announced a concerted effort to get guns and their users off the street. "I have every confidence we can change this...

Preach It, Pastor!

5:08pm Wednesday, July 02, 2003
Thomas Brouwer, pastor of Messiah Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, in Middletown, wrote a reply to an anti-self-defense letter published by the mother of a CWRU shoting victim. His letter to the editor published in the Middletown Journal. Click the "Read More..." link below for an archived copy of the letter, and a link to the newspaper. Letters to the Editor, 07.02.03 For The Middletown Journal...

Mansfield: Vandals harass woman for her religion

2:39pm Wednesday, July 02, 2003
Are the efforts of Bob Taft and the Ohio Highway Patrol putting this victim of hate at further risk? Concrete wrapped in swastika thrown through window MANSFIELD - Helen Avenue resident Ruth Schwan is considering investing in bulletproof glass. Thursday night, just minutes before midnight, someone threw a piece of cement through her dining-room window. Wrapped around it was a piece of white paper...

Senator Lynn Wachtmann: Portrait of a Senate Leader

3:52pm Tuesday, July 01, 2003
In one sense, politicians' jobs are not unlike waiters, bellhops, or any other service-related occupation. They rarely hear a peep from their customers unless the service is bad. Senator Lynn Wachtmann deserves to hear from you, because his service has been so good . Click on the "Read More..." link below. align="right"> Sen. Lynn Wachtmann, a Napoleon Republican, says that throughout his...

Most lawn mower accidents result of human error

2:20pm Tuesday, July 01, 2003
Yes, you read the headline correctly - this is a story about accidents with lawn mowers. No, you did not accidentally logon to the wrong website. The Daily Chief-Union of Upper Sandusky has published a story, informing readers about the dangers of lawn mower usage. According to the Insurance Information Institute, approximately 75,000 people per year require emergency room treatment for injuries...

DDN: Sounds of bickering rumble Republican paradise

11:08am Tuesday, July 01, 2003
By William Hershey [email protected] COLUMBUS | There’s trouble in paradise. Paradise, of course, is where you find it. Republicans have found it here in Columbus since 1994. That’s the year they took control of both Ohio House and Senate and every statewide nonjudicial office. Democrats have scrambled for crumbs since then. With all that power on their hands, Republicans have taken to...

HB12 Sponsor Jim Aslanides publishes revealing op-ed

9:46am Tuesday, July 01, 2003
Rep. Jim Aslanides has published an excellent opinion editorial that addresses the current status of House Bill 12, and reveals the underhanded practices which the Governor and Ohio State Highway Patrol have resorted to in order to try and deny your right to self-defense. One of his most interesting revelations is that "the Governor's office at no time provided direct input on the course of the...

Insisting on 'Carjacker Protection': What does Bob Taft have against children?

5:53pm Monday, June 30, 2003
A bill recognizing Ohioans' right to self-defense is on hold (again), due to the actions of Gov. Bob Taft, a few bureaucrats in the Ohio State Highway Patrol, and a few enablers in the Senate. One of the main issues preventing a compromise is Taft/OSHP-sponsored language that would require people in vehicles with minor occupants to lock up their firearms. This Senate amendment has quickly become...

A public service ad you can't ignore

10:23am Monday, June 30, 2003
The Other Paper in Columbus this week ran this rather one-sided article... ============ Without warning, begins the radio commercial, I can strike, shattering bone, tearing flesh. Crippling, disfiguring and paralyzing my victims. I don't discriminate. I don't care what color, creed, religion, shape, size, or even age a person is. I could get your sister when she's sitting on your porch. Think you...

Columbus robber shot by clerk during robbery

10:19am Monday, June 30, 2003
From WBNS in Columbus : One man is in the hospital, another in jail, and a third on the loose after they tried to rob a Columbus drive-thru carryout. The three men walked into the Lockbourne Express Drive-Thru wearing masks just after midnight, and attempted to rob the store. But two clerks were prepared for the attempt and pulled a gun out from behind the counter. One of the robbers was shot by...

Letters to the Editor: What Bob Taft refuses to understand Pt. II

3:21pm Sunday, June 29, 2003
Leaders in the Senate and representatives of the dominant political party in Ohio, take note: Ohio's self defense rights activists, who are indeed some of the most active and numerous grassroots volunteers in Ohio politics, are speaking loudly and clearly in the days since HB12 was stalled. They have had it with the anti-self-defense actions of Bob Taft, and they are ready to take action against...

Buzz-word: ''Diversity'' definitely present among self-defense rights activists

12:03pm Saturday, June 28, 2003
As we continue to examine the fall-out from two intense weeks of activity in Columbus on HB12, one thing has become readily apparent: No Supreme Court ruling is necessary to enforce diversity among supporters of concealed carry reform. Click on the "Read More..." link below for more. Ambush When the news broke of the Senate/Taft plan to severly amend HB12 and pass it out of the Senate in less...

Enquirer: Police, politics and pistols part of the CCW controversy

9:35am Saturday, June 28, 2003
By Jim Siegel Gannett Columbus Bureau COLUMBUS - Ohio lawmakers once again failed to agree on a way to permit people to carry hidden weapons. Here is an attempt to explain what's going on. Click on the "Read More..." link below for more. How long have state lawmakers been trying to pass a gun bill? Since 1996. It gets reintroduced with each new General Assembly. Why can't lawmakers get it passed...

Editorial: Liberals should stop opposing concealed handguns and start defending

9:24am Saturday, June 28, 2003
Columbus Alive June 26, 2003 Fired Up by J. Caleb Mozzocco It's only a matter of time, so maybe you should start getting used to the idea now: Eventually, it will be completely legal to carry a concealed handgun in the state of Ohio, just as the founding fathers envisioned when they wrote the Second Amendment. Or as the National Rifle Association intended when they started lobbying legislators...

How a Republican (who won't act like one) governor is stalling HB12

by Chad D. Baus
12:23pm Friday, June 27, 2003
Or perhaps a better headline: "How Republican dominance in Columbus is actually preventing the recognition of Ohioans' right to self-defense" The Ohio House has 62 Republican members, and the Senate has 22. To override a governor's veto, only 60 votes are needed in the House, and 20 in the Senate. So why is the media reporting that the Senate's Republican leadership is allowing Bob Taft's veto-...

Who elected Paul McClellan? Who voted for John Born?

by Chad D. Baus
10:12am Thursday, June 26, 2003
When it comes to reforming the state's concealed carry laws, the buck stops with a few unelected state employees. This according to Republican leadership in the Ohio Senate, and Gov. Bob Taft. According to media reports, Senate President Doug White has refused to appoint conferees to a committee to work out differences between the House and Senate's versions of HB12. He says the House needs to do...

Cleveland Plain Dealer and New York Times have a lot common

9:27am Thursday, June 26, 2003
On June 20, the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Doug Clifton, wrote and published a column that contained about as much truth as we now know was contained in articles by New York Times reporter Jayson Blair. Clifton told Plain Dealer readers that HB12 "exempts all gun licensing information from the state's open records laws" and that "the state wants to...prevent you from knowing ...a...

Letters to the Editor: What Bob Taft refuses to understand

6:57am Thursday, June 26, 2003
A number of excellent letters to editor have appeared across the state in recent days. Apparently these pro-self-defense letter writers have a better handle on the facts surrounding the concealed carry reform debate than does their Governor. Click on the "Read More..." link below for summaries and links to the letters. Sciotoville's RICK JONES: Bill allowing concealed weapons is way off target...

Editorial: Taft, Senate blocking rights

Lima News Editorial Board
5:25pm Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Gov. Bob Taft and Ohio Senate President Doug White stubbornly are blocking Ohioans' right to carry concealed weapons. The Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice last week altered a bill passed by the House of Representatives, and now White refuses to name conferees to iron out differences in the bills until the House and Taft resolve their differences. So much for political leadership...

Stalled until fall: Taft insistent on 'Car-jacker Protection Act'

by Chad D. Baus
4:16pm Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Although two news organizations are reporting that HB12 appears to be "dead", most others are suggesting that the legislative summer break will be used as a cool-down period, and that the matter will be readdressed when the General Assembly reconvenes. Representatives from Governor Taft's office and the Legislature ended talks aimed at reaching a compromise Wednesday. Lawmakers are scheduled to...

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