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It's About Privacy (& the Sandusky Register Secretly Employing Sex Offenders)

By Ken Hanson Sandusky Register Editor Matt Westerhold, apparently with a straight face, published an editorial today entitled “It’s about the secrets, not about the gun owners” . Apparently hoping we forgot his history at the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram , where he attacked gun owners' privacy in similar fashion, Mr. Westerhold bemoans that he did not seek this fight, but at the same time he would...

Buckeye Firearms Association has a new address!

Our continued success and growth has created the need and importance for a centrally located office. As such, our address has changed. Effective immediately, all mail should now be sent to: Buckeye Firearms Association 15 West Winter Street Delaware, OH 43015 With the new address, Buckeye Firearms Association now has an office near Columbus in order to facilitate a better relationship with...

Pro-Gun Punditry: Wednesday's Buckeye State Roundabout

By Chris Chumita 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 all worthy of mention. What follows is our review of headlines from around the state though a pro-gun rights lens. From the official release of the JPFO's new movie to dogs being shot in a robbery, these articles should be a part of...

Self Defense Against Rogue Statistics

by Dean Rieck Mark Twain is often quoted as saying, “There are three types of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics.” That’s another way of saying that while statistics are useful, they can be slippery. Much of the problem with statistics is ignorance about how they are created and what they mean. However, many people, including some anti-gun zealots, purposely misuse statistics, especially...

Plain Dealer Abandons Journalistic Ideals in Coverage of Self-Defense News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE While most of Ohio’s news media have done a fair-to-admirable job covering the issue of self-defense, Cleveland’s Plain Dealer appears to have abandoned any pretext of journalistic integrity on this topic. Consider several recent stories: A boy dies, and a gun debate is reignited (April 24, 2007), Tragedy at Virginia Tech (April 18, 2007), and Gun advocates in massacre find...

Responder Zero

By Clint Lake In the world of infectious diseases there is a term called ‘Patient Zero’. This is essentially the first person to start the epidemic spreading to numerous points unknown. The Center For Disease Control has the job of backtracking from the most recent recipient of the disease all the way back to ‘Patient Zero’ in order to determine how the bug transported from person to person and...

Unarmed Ohio campus security guards - and they'll stay that way

While college campuses across the country examine their security procedures in the wake of the VT massacre, most campus security experts are stressing that while they try to plan for all contingencies, there really is no way to prevent one lone predator with a death wish from wreaking havoc on a college campus. But one Ohio college dean thinks she has the answer to a heavily armed criminal with...

One Time to Save a Life

By Gerard Valentino The establishment media’s immediate vilification of guns whenever a mass shooting happens means they forget that it only takes only one person with a concealed handgun license to stop a killer. They also refuse to accept that despite the leftist anti-gunners' cries to the contrary, when someone resists with a gun the death toll in these cases is much lower. Every single one of...

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