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Editorial: Elyria winged by its wild shot at keeping guns out of city parks

3:59pm Sunday, September 12, 2004

September 10, 2004 Lorain Morning Journal The decision by Elyria City Council to specifically ban concealed handguns from the city's parks carries no penalties. That makes it unenforceable, and Police Chief Mike Medders says it won't be enforced. Even if it's a symbolic statement against guns, as Mayor Bill Grace suggested, it's a bad move. Unenforced and unenforceable laws only breed contempt...

Letter to the Editor: Law-abiding Ohioans have right to carry guns

2:35pm Thursday, September 09, 2004

September 9, 2004 Port Clinton News Herald Regarding your editorial "Cities should have right to ban guns in parks," I believe you have missed several important points. Gun laws, like many other laws, need to be consistent across the state. That is why speed limits and traffic laws operate within certain guidelines across the state. Seatbelt laws designed to make us safer are consistent across...

Gun rights could play a significant role in battleground states

12:29pm Thursday, September 09, 2004

September 9, 2004 Springfield News Sun WASHINGTON — Large populations of hunters and gun owners in Ohio and other battleground states could provide critical support in the close presidential election, the National Rifle Association's chief executive said Wednesday. Candidates' stances on protecting gun rights could help attract enough voters to sway the election, NRA chief executive Wayne...

NRA-ILA: ONE MORE PUSH TO END THE CLINTON GUN BAN

9:40am Thursday, September 09, 2004

September 9, 2004 With only five days to go before the September 13th expiration of the 1994 Clinton gun ban, anti-gun activists across the nation are making a last stand to re-enact this ineffective legislation. But now time is running out. Congress is only in session three more days before the sunset, and because time is short, anti-gunners will be redoubling their efforts to extend the ban...

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Editorial: Time to start teaching gun safety in schools

9:28am Thursday, September 09, 2004

September 7, 2004 St. Paul Pioneer Press by Mark Yost As the rest of Minnesota's kids head back to school today, they'll participate in a wide-ranging curriculum that will readily teach them how to swim, how to drive, how to safely handle potent chemicals, how to balance their checkbook, even how to conjugate verbs in a dead language. What it won't teach them is what to do if they ever come...

Facts on guns and crime reduction in Israel ''surprise'' Michael Moore

9:12am Thursday, September 09, 2004

Despite being an "expert" on guns and crime, Michael Moore now says he learned the facts about arming citizens and crime reduction only after he made his anti-gun movie: "After I made Bowling for Columbine, I discovered that Israel has one of the lowest levels of violence -- I mean, besides the conflict with the Palestinians -- even though there are so many guns around." (Admissions like this...

Akron police seek gunman who entered home

12:08pm Wednesday, September 08, 2004

September 8, 2004 Akron Beacon Journal AKRON: Police are investigating a home invasion in the 400 block of Perkins Street. A woman at the house told police a man with a gun broke into the apartment about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday. The gunman ordered her to lie on the floor. An upstairs tenant heard the commotion and rushed to the woman's aid, causing the gunman to cut his robbery short, police said. As...

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Guns banned in Elyria parks, but there's no penalty

9:36am Wednesday, September 08, 2004

September 8, 2004 Lorain Morning Journal ELYRIA -- City Council voted to ban concealed handguns in the city's parks, despite objections raised by a councilman and although the ordinance doesn't call for any penalties. Council voted 10-1 to ban concealed weapons in all city buildings and city-owned parks, amending a previous ordinance that banned concealed handguns on all city-owned land,...