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Tale of Two Cities: 20th Toledo bank robbery this year; Louisville robber killed

12:12pm Wednesday, June 11, 2003
A man with dreadlocks yesterday robbed the National City Bank branch at 3890 Monroe St. of an undisclosed amount of money in Toledo's 20th holdup of a financial institution this year. The man entered the bank about 10:20 a.m. and handed a teller a note demanding money. The teller gave him the cash, and then fled the branch in an easterly direction. No weapon was seen, and the robber didn't...

Bowling Green police provide nightly escort to bank for Burger King employees

11:58am Wednesday, June 11, 2003
Burger King employees here are taking no chances of being robbed again. After the manager of a south side restaurant was robbed June 1, employees at that Burger King and two others in the city have been making a habit of calling local police each night before they close. When Bowling Green police receive the call, an officer heads to the respective Burger King and follows the store manager to a...

Tale of Two Cities: Elderly Cincinnati woman raped, Col. Springs woman defends

11:15am Wednesday, June 11, 2003
A 17-year-old Over-the-Rhine boy who is being prosecuted as an adult on a charge that he beat and raped his literacy tutor has been found competent to stand trial. Next week, Wilkins is scheduled for a hearing where a trial date will be set unless he enters a plea. Wilkins is charged with rape and felonious assault in connection with a March 7 attack against a 57-year-old woman in a basement...

Columbus grandfather saves grandson from pit bull attack

10:23am Wednesday, June 11, 2003
Anthony English, 24, told Columbus police that a pit bull chased him three blocks about 10:40 a.m. before he reached his grandfather’s porch at 682 Stanley Ave. Buford English, 58, who was washing his car, got a 9 mm handgun, came back and fatally shot the animal, Officer Dennis Byrd said. "His grandson said the dog jumped a fence and was on its heels trying to bite," Byrd said. Sonya Garvin said...

Editorial: Aiming for passage

10:03am Wednesday, June 11, 2003
The Akron Beacon-Journal has printed it's latest anti-self-defense editorial. The editors, of course, ignore proponents concerns with making further changes to HB12, while outlining opposing groups' suggested Senate amendments in detail. After reading the closing line, you may not find it necessary to read the entire editorial : "The Ohio Coalition on Gun Violence has it right -- any law...

Letter to the Editor: Daddy, why do you sell guns?

9:48am Wednesday, June 11, 2003
June 9, 2003 In 1958, a first-grader learned a fact that is beyond the comprehension of Sarah Brady and anti-gun radicals. "My teacher asked everyone what their father did for a living. When I explained my father owned a gun shop, I immediately saw the negative reaction in my teacher's face.'' That evening, Nancy First asked her father: "Why do you sell guns? They're bad.'' The father's reply: "...

Capital University Law School Professor responds to Donohue-will Dispatch print?

12:27pm Tuesday, June 10, 2003
A Capital University Law Professor has responded to John J. Dononue III's letter to the editor (which contained at least one blatantly false statement) with a letter of his own. Whether or not the Dispatch's anti-CCW editorial board chooses to print the letter, you can read it here, by clicking on the "Read More..." link below. UPDATE! The Dispatch printed Dr. Mayer's letter in the Friday, June...

Senator Schuler Supports HB12 as passed by the House

12:15pm Tuesday, June 10, 2003
I recently sent Senator Robert Schuler (7th District) a letter concerning HB. 12. In my letter to the senator I explained that my vote would be based on the ccw issue more so than any other issue in the legislator including the budget. Here is a verbatim copy of the main paragraph of the senators reply letter. "I'm in favor of concealed carry and supported it when I was a member of the House. I...

Can Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers be trusted with their firearms?

12:07pm Tuesday, June 10, 2003
Last week, we reported about Trooper DeLong, a woman who has failed to qualify with her firearm on two separate occasions , has been suspended for abusing the law enforcement database for personal use, and has been fired (then reinstated) from a post at the Statehouse for sleeping while on duty. We also told you about Trooper Burd, a three-time "trooper of the year" who has been fired from his...

Letter to the Editor: Statistics show concealed carry won’t reduce crime

7:42am Sunday, June 08, 2003
In the final days before anticipated Senate votes on HB12, the Columbus Dispatch has printed a response to Dr. John Lott's April 24 op-ed, and in doing so, Dispatch editors signaled they're ready to do their best to aid anti-self-defense extremists in a last ditch effort to defeat HB12. UPDATE! In the hours following the publishing of the letter, it has been confirmed by Ohioans For Concealed...

The evidence OSHP Superintendant Paul McClellan can't find

1:46pm Saturday, June 07, 2003
At the behest of the Taft administration, Ohio State Highway Patrol leadership has repeatedly voiced its opposition to any concealed carry reform law that allows persons to exercise their right to self-defense in an automobile. In opponent testimony before the Ohio House Criminal Justice committee, Capt. John Born argued in favor of keeping in place a ban on carrying loaded weapons in cars ,...

Tale of Two Cities: Columbus man kidnapped/robbed; CA jeweler foils attempt

11:40am Saturday, June 07, 2003
Saturday, June 07, 2003 Police were searching for three men who kidnapped a North Side man yesterday and forced him to drive to his Westerville workplace, where they made him open the safe. Authorities were also looking for a fourth man, who drove the getaway car. The four got away with an undisclosed amount of money. The kidnapped man escaped uninjured. The three kidnappers grabbed the man just...

Columbus homicide rate climbing

10:52am Saturday, June 07, 2003
Murder is on the rise in the capital city. There have been 5 murders in 2 weeks in the Columbus area. Since January, 47 people in Columbus have been the victim of a homicide. If the violence continues as this pace, the murder rate will top last year's numbers. Eighty-one people were murdered in Columbus in 2002. After months of record-setting pace in Cincinnati homicides, a bit of reprieve has...

Dispatch: Trooper went too far, Zanesville motorist says

5:45pm Friday, June 06, 2003
Melody Butts concedes she deserved a ticket for unthinkingly passing a stopped school bus on Rt. 40 east of Zanesville. However, the nurse says she did not deserve the face full of Mace and night in jail that followed the arrival of a state trooper at her home later that day to write her up for the offense. "She was treating me like a criminal for a traffic violation,’" Butts said of her May 28...

Enquirer: Cincinnati's record pace of homicides slows

11:48am Friday, June 06, 2003
Cincinnati Police Chief Tom Streicher is crediting that city's tougher stance on criminals who use guns in the commission of their crimes for slowing what was a record pace of homicides this year. The program, known as Project Safe Neighborhoods, was created nearly two years ago in response to the city's most violent summer in decades. Streicher says the homicide numbers, while only a modest...

Tale of Two Cities: Akron deliverymen robbed; Pittsburgh robber shot

6:11pm Thursday, June 05, 2003
As the weather warms, crime against restaurant delivery workers tends to rise. Robbers are more comfortable lurking outside in the shadows, waiting at a phony address, having provided a bogus phone number, police say. ``Although there hasn't been a significant change, there does seem to be a rise in restaurant delivery robberies,'' said Capt. Daniel Zampelli of the Akron Police Department. ``Our...

Loud and Clear

10:51am Thursday, June 05, 2003
As the hour of Senate adoption of a substitute House Bill 12 approaches, we thought it'd be healthy to review the circumstances under which HB274 died, as well as the major moments for HB12 in the days leading up to now. This exercise will serve to remind all involved in the State House that it would be a serious mistake to repeat history with HB12. Click on the "Read More..." link below for more...

Public hearings scheduled for Youngstown 'assault weapons' ban

7:09am Thursday, June 05, 2003
On June 11th, the Youngstown City Council will be holding public hearings on the so-called assault weapons ordinance being considered by the safety committee. Detailed info provided by clicking "Read More." There will be two separate sessions the first will be held from 2:20 - 4:30, the second from 5:30 - 7:30. I am told that as this is a public hearing interested parties will be given ample time...

Two new ''shall issue'' states report firearms sales and training on the rise

2:51pm Wednesday, June 04, 2003
In recent weeks, both Colorado and Minnesota legislatures revised their concealed carry laws from "may issue" to "shall issue". Even though these states laws previously recognized SOME citizens' right to self-defense, their law had been abused in many places by the political whims liberal sheriffs. And despite their experience with concealed carry, anti-self-defense extremists in those states are...

Poll: 9-11 attacks and D.C. snipers trigger soccer mom support for self-defense

2:13pm Wednesday, June 04, 2003
Here's a story about America you won't likely see in the American media: It is midweek night at the Blue Ridge Arsenal and Ginger Wright, passionate gun owner and professional shooting coach, cannot seem to hit the centre of the target. "I'm shooting in heels," she says with a laugh. "I don't usually shoot in heels." She steadies her .45 calibre Sig Sauer once more and the spent cartridges fly...

Dispatch: Patrol fires three-time best trooper

12:50pm Wednesday, June 04, 2003
A three-time "trooper of the year" has been fired from his job with the State Highway Patrol for conduct unbecoming an officer. Robert L. Burd, 31, was fired on May 20, said patrol spokeswoman Sgt. Robin R. Schmutz. Burd, a union member, has filed a grievance with the state’s Office of Collective Bargaining to fight the dismissal, said spokesman Ben Piscitelli. Burd pleaded not guilty last month...

Letters to the Editor: Guns are part of the solution, not the problem

12:30pm Wednesday, June 04, 2003
The Cleveland Plain Dealer has printed two excellent responses to an anti-HB12 column published in that paper recently by Case Western Reserve shooting victim Susan Helper. Marc K. Myers' and Tom Meder's letters are both worth a read , but their most basic point can be summed up here: Since everything Biswanath Halder did at CWRU is already illegal, refusing to pass House Bill 12 would do...

Blade: Toledo's violent crime rate on the rise

11:56am Wednesday, June 04, 2003
City officials and the Toledo media are busy touting the fact that a computer glitch falsely indicated Toledo's overall crime rate in 2002 rose by 2%, when in fact it dropped by 1%. The nature of the malfunction caused by some double-counting. But they're certainly not headlining the real story: despite a ban on inexpensive handguns in the city, and despite city-funded gun "buyback" programs (...

Gun control extremist: Shoot the messenger

10:44am Wednesday, June 04, 2003
In a Washington Times article discussing the notion that gun-control has become a loosing argument for Democrat politicians, anti-self-defense extremists had this to say about the Democrat's unwillingness to focus on passing more gun control laws: "Whoever is advising them on gun control should be shot." -- Blaine Rummel, spokesman for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Uh, is it just us, or is...

Dispatch: Householder aims at run for governor down the road

5:50pm Monday, June 02, 2003
In just six years as a House member, Larry Householder has fashioned himself into perhaps the most dominating politician on Capitol Square, filling the power vacuum created by a governor who has been reluctant to lead. The speaker of the Ohio House won't run for governor in 2006, but he plans to be ready in 2010 if a Republican isn't occupying the office, or in 2014, when, at age 54, he'll still...

State budget battles and HB12

7:23am Monday, June 02, 2003
The Ohio General Assembly's struggle to cover a gap between state spending and tax revenue is nearing an end for this fiscal year. The issue worked to delay HB12 slightly in the House earlier this year, and it looks to be having a similar effect in the Senate. No meetings are scheduled on HB12 this week, as Senators and staffs are largely focused on finalizing a budget bill. UPDATE! The Senate...

Letter to the Editor: Concealed carry can aid public safety

9:21am Friday, May 30, 2003
The Toledo Blade has printed an excellent letter to the editor addressing the exploitation of the CWRU shooting by anti-self-defense extremists . Click on the "Read More..." link below for more. 5/29/03 To the Editor: It was inevitable that insensitive anti-gunners would try to capitalize on the unfortunate shooting at Case Western Reserve University to attempt to derail Ohio’s passage of "...

Letter to Senators from pro-HB12 police officer

8:58am Friday, May 30, 2003
An Ohio police officer and former Marine has copied us on a letter he submitted to the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice. In the letter, Officer Douglas debunks any notion that Ohioans may exercise their constitutional right to self-defense by carrying a firearm "openly", by informing Senators that he was trained in police academy to charge persons doing so with disorderly conduct or inciting...

Canton Repository: Movie-goers a target for car thieves

2:50pm Thursday, May 29, 2003
Ken Samblanet took his son, Dustin, to see a movie in an attempt to cheer him up. But when “Matrix Reloaded” ended, the father and son stepped out into Tinseltown Theatre’s parking lot only to notice something was missing. Dustin’s truck. Click on the "Read More..." link below for more. The Samblanets aren’t the only movie-goers finding themselves the prey of vandals and thieves, police say...

Cincy Post: Violent crime up 37.1% in Cincinnati

12:13pm Thursday, May 29, 2003
Although touting progress in certain police districts, Cincinnati city council admits that Cincinnati's violent crime rate so far this year is up 37.1 percent compared to the same period in 2000. In the first 5 months of this year, the violent crime rate has increased by about 12 percent in two of Cincinnati's five police districts: District 2, which includes Evanston, Walnut Hills and...

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