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25-year police veteran to Toledo residents: "Buy guns. Invest in precious metals: lead, gun power and brass."

12:05am Monday, April 20, 2009

By Chad D. Baus For the past several weeks, the Toledo Blade has been reporting on a severe budget short-fall that the City of Toledo has spent itself into. After weeks of back-and-forth debate between Mayor Carty Finkbeiner - who is likely to be facing a recall at the ballot box this September - Toledo city council, and unions representing police and firefighters' unions, the Finkbeiner...

Is Rush Limbaugh's cat being held hostage by animal rights extremists?

10:21am Friday, April 17, 2009

Our laws do not prevent us from killing animals for food or sport, so the right to life of an animal is nonexistent. ...[W]e are confronted daily by people who wish to obstruct human progress and individual economic choices by elevating the importance of animal existence to that of human existence. - Rush Limbaugh, The Way Things Ought To Be , 1992 By Chad D. Baus I have been listening to Rush...

Media attention focused on firearms

12:10am Friday, April 17, 2009

By Jim Shepherd Last week, California Senator Dianne Feinstein said that there would be no big moves to reinstitute the "Assault Weapons Ban" because the "time wasn't right". That, however, doesn't mean the "assault on your weapons we want to ban" has died down on the liberal side of the question. On Sunday April 12, CBS News' Leslie Stahl delivered one of Sixty Minutes ' vaunted hard-hitting...

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Equipped to be a Killer?: Criminal behavior is about the behavior, not about the tool

12:05am Friday, April 17, 2009

By Jeff Knox There is a funny story about a woman who rowed her husband's boat out for a little solitude. While she was enjoying the fresh air and sunshine a Park Ranger pulled up alongside and asked to see her fishing license. When she told him she didn’t have one he said that he was going to write her a ticket because, even though she was just sitting in the boat reading, there was fishing...

Op-Ed: Let's All Surrender Our Weapons -- You First!

12:10am Thursday, April 16, 2009

By Ann Coulter The rash of recent shooting incidents has led people who wouldn't know an AK-47 from a paintball gun to issue demands for more restrictions on guns. To be sure, it's hard to find any factor in these shootings that could be responsible -- other than the gun. So far, this year's public multiple shootings were committed by: -- Richard Poplawski, 23, product of a broken family,...

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Education Guide Lesson #22: Pretend 'Gun-Free' School Zones: A Deadly Legal Fiction

12:05am Thursday, April 16, 2009

Yet another eye-opening study course has been added to the Buckeye Firearms Association Education Guide . Written by David B. Kopel, this Article analyzes the law and policy regarding the licensed carrying of firearms in K-12 schools and in colleges and universities. The Article suggests that absolute bans have proven to be extremely dangerous, because they turn schools into uniquely attractive...

The futility of gun control: Another Plain Dealer columnist "gets it"

12:10am Wednesday, April 15, 2009

By Chad D. Baus When it comes to the futility of addressing the epidemic of inner-city violence with impotent gun control laws, it would seem there are at least a two people at the Cleveland Plain Dealer who "get it." Last year Plain Dealer columnist Regina Brett's series on the thug culture earned her title as a top-three finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary , and since then she...

Firearm Sales Continue to Climb in March

12:05am Wednesday, April 15, 2009

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Firearm sales continued to surge across the country for the fifth straight month, extending a trend that began after the November elections. The increase also follows recent comments by several high-profile members of the Obama administration about re-imposing permanently and expanding the ban on modern sporting rifles. Data from the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background...