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Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

3:47pm Wednesday, December 14, 2005

There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio then we can possibly draw attention to with individual daily commentary. But they are worthy of mention. What follows is our weekly review of headlines from around the state though a pro-gun rights lens. Thursday in Cleveland: Officer accused of stealing guns A lieutenant with Cleveland's Public Utilities police force was arrested...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc. volunteer named as candidate for Lt. Gov.

12:05am Tuesday, December 13, 2005

The Peirce for Ohio Committee announced today that it has selected Mark Noble to run as Lieutenant Governor with Bill Peirce, the Libertarian Party candidate for Governor of Ohio in the upcoming 2006 election. Noble gave up a career in website design in 2004 in order to pursue his study of electrical and computer engineering at the Ohio State University. His experience in the internet-driven...

Thanks to national columnist, misleading campaign postcard still reverberates

12:10am Monday, December 12, 2005

By Chad D. Baus Last summer, voters in Ohio's 2nd Congressional District who make their decisions based on gun rights were given two good choices - former State Rep. Jean Schmidt (R) faced off against Iraq War vet Paul Hackett (D), in a special election to fill a seat vacated when President Bush appointed then-Congressman Rob Portman as U.S. Trade Representative. The National Rifle Association...

OSU Police dumbing down crime statistics

12:05am Monday, December 12, 2005

By Mark Noble Recently, WBNS 10TV (Columbus) reporter James Black reported that the Ohio State University has changed the way it reports campus crime statistics to track closer to the minimum standard set forth by the U.S. Department of Education. From the story: Under new U.S. Department of Education guidelines, universities are no longer required to keep track of off-campus crime. But is the...

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Psychologist on toy guns: 'Discouraging a behavior may have opposite effect'

12:10am Friday, December 09, 2005

The Hamilton Journal-News has published an excellent article by Gregory Ramey, a child psychologist and vice president for outpatient services at Children's Medical Center of Dayton. The article concerns parental guidance when it comes to toy guns, and the information he provides is likely to surprise those familiar with the typical anti-gun stance offered by the medical community. The article...

Op-Ed: NRA's newest convert: Even a hippie needs a gun

12:05am Friday, December 09, 2005

On December 5, the Lubbock (TX) Daily Toreador has published as excellent op-ed by Clara Cobb, who is the newspaper's Features Editor and a self-professed (formerly) "anti-hand-gun" "hippie. The op-ed begins like this: About two weeks ago, a male approximately 5 foot 9, 150 pounds broke and entered my house. (SIDE NOTE: This is funny because it is true.) That night, or rather, early that morning...

AP: Attorney plans wrongful death lawsuit in nightclub shooting

10:23am Thursday, December 08, 2005

The Associated Press is reporting that an attorney representing three victims of a fatal nightclub shooting last December said he will file a wrongful death lawsuit against the club's owners. From the story: The Alrosa Villa nightclub did not provide adequate security, Columbus attorney Gerald Leesburg told The Columbus Dispatch for a story Thursday. Nathan Gale, a former Marine, rushed the stage...

Why print the truth when it ruins the ''guns are bad and easy to get'' story?

12:10am Thursday, December 08, 2005

News of a "firearms accident" in a small town in the Miami Valley this week has drawn nation attention, and although everyone from the Dayton Daily News to the Associated Press (USA Today, CBS News and countless others unquestioningly ran the AP version) have written on it, the facts about the firearm that was involved have yet to reported anywhere but on the Internet blogosphere. First, from the...