It’s the Criminals, Stupid - Man is dead after City of Cleveland fails to get violent felon off the streets

by Ken Hanson, Esq. The Cleveland Plain Dealer is once again reporting on gun violence in Cleveland , and once again dedicating the majority of the ink to "getting the guns off the streets" and "prevention programs." In what I am sure is an unintended omission, this article makes reference to seven people shot in a 10 day span beginning July 26, 2011. Had The Plain Dealer extended their...

SAF/SCCC "Supporting Campus Concealed Carry" Forum in Washington D.C. airs live on C-SPAN

On August 8, C-SPAN televised live video of a forum hosted by two groups that support giving college students the ability to carry a concealed weapon on campus. From the article : The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC) argue that colleges would be safer if students were allowed to possess firearms. "Colleges have entered into an informal alliance...

Report: Gun crimes drop at Virginia bars and restaurants

by Chad D. Baus In the days before concealed carry became the law of the land in Ohio, opponents like the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence's Toby Hoover decried the proposed law , claiming that "If we have more use of guns, then we're going to have more people who are injured and die," and that "A person who has a gun sees danger. We will have more shootings, more accidents." During the debate...

Op-Ed: How an Imaginary Gun Saved My Life

The following op-ed was originally published at Advocate.com . Repubilshed with permission of the author. by Jimmy LaSalvia Two years ago the federal government passed a law ostensibly aimed at preventing violent hate crimes against LGBT people. Many gay conservatives, including me, said at the time of its passage that the law would do nothing to actually prevent hate crimes. After this weekend,...

July sees 8.3% increase in firearms sales checks over same month last year; 14th straight month over month increase

The July 2011 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 680,258 is an increase of 8.3 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 628,125 in July 2010. For comparison, the unadjusted July 2011 NICS figure of 1,147,355 is an increase of 8 percent over the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,062,886 in July 2010. This marks the 14th straight month-over-month...

The Criminal Steering of Gun Control

by Ron Borsch World history tells us of tyrants and dictators that have deprived the populace of their God given rights, especially the right to keep and bear arms. The Jewish Defense League ( www.JDL.org ) has advised that everywhere in World history where genocide has been committed, the genocide was always preceded by disarming the population. The party or government responsible for disarming...

Dave Spaulding Fundraiser for Buckeye Firearms Foundation fun and successful

Dave Spaulding (l) and Officer Brian Buchanan (r) by Larry S. Moore "Be prepared to play an active role in your rescue" and "If you are not cheating then you are not trying hard enough" were two of the key points driven home by Dave Spaulding. It wasn't about the make, model, caliber or type of gun used but the mindset and skill of the person with the gun. The Buckeye Firearms Foundation fund...

Innovative, historically important "Tommy" gun born in Cleveland

The Cleveland Plain Dealer , in one installment of a series of articles highlighting inventions, ideas and and innovations that originated in Northeast Ohio, recently published an article noting that the Thompson submachine gun finds its origins in Cleveland. From the article : Betsy Hanak, of Concord Township, said her father, Theodore Eickhoff, who helped design the first Thompson submachine...

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