BOOK REVIEW: Emily Gets Her Gun…But Obama Wants to Take Yours

By Jim Irvine I've had the pleasure of hearing Emily Miller address groups to tell her story of becoming a D.C. gun owner several times. Emily is a delightful person, has an interesting story to tell and does a great job telling it. She has won numerous awards for her series, "Emily Gets her Gun" which appeared in the Washington Times . Her book, by the same title, details her journey from an...

Toledo homeowner fights back during attempted home invasion

by Chad D. Baus WTVG (ABC Toledo) reported recently that a man defended himself and his girlfriend when a man forced his way through a window in an attempted home invasion. From the article : A Toledo man is recovering after he was shot, possibly during an attempted home invasion, Thursday morning. Antione Garrett told police he and his girlfriend woke up to the sound of someone breaking into...

CNN Poll: Fading support for stricter gun control exposes reason why extremists move immediately to exploit tragedy

by Chad D. Baus CNN reported recently that "as memories fade from last December's horrific school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, a new national poll indicates that support for stricter gun control laws appears to be fading, too." While CNN's premise that only a fading memory can explain the decline in support for gun control is bogus, the findings are none-the-less encouraging. From the...

Obama and Bloomberg Use December 14 to Promote Gun Control

Google "Organizing for Action" (OFA), supposedly a non-partisan, grassroots group, and you get www.barackobama.com . Likewise, click on the preceding link, and it takes you to the Organizing for Action website. Despite OFA's innocuous-sounding name, the Chicago-based group is an arm of the Obama political machine, the successor to a similar Obama store-front put together after his 2008 election,...

School safety for active killer events

Editor's Note: The following article editorial was published on December 3 edition of the Sidney Daily News . School officials in that city, with the support and aid of the Shelby Co. Sheriff, have implemented a program to provide armed staff members inside the schools, and are struggling with a resistant local police chief. by Jim Irvine Everyone wants schools to be safe, but how is that best...

Op-Ed: Predictions by anti-gun crowd rarely come true

by Mike McCoy Law-abiding citizens are likely to soon see several improvements to Ohio’s concealed carry law. In a bipartisan vote Tuesday, the Policy and Legislative Oversight Committee of the Ohio House of Representatives voted to send House Bill 203 to the full House. This was an important step in moving this legislation to passage. ...What the misnamed stand your ground provision actually...

School safety – what teachers tell us about your kid’s school

by Jim Irvine Saturday, December 14, 2013 marks the one year anniversary since a coward murdered his mother, stole her gun and her car, then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where he brutally murdered his mother, six school employees and 20 innocent children before committing suicide. Buckeye Firearms Foundation recently surveyed school employees to find out what has...

Op-Ed: Women the 'Holy Grail' of gun rights movement

by Raquel Okyay Women seeking to arm themselves and their daughters are figuring out that guns are not 'taboo' but a powerful means of protection. "Women are the holy grail of the Second Amendment movement," said Skip Coryell nationally recognized firearm expert and author of the newly released The Shadow Militia. The Second Amendment will stand or fall depending on the way women vote, he said. "...

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