Gun Grabbers

''First bank robbery this year'' at posted Willoughby Fifth Third branch

June 8, 2004 Willoughby News Herald Police, FBI trying to determine if crime is connected to others in area The FBI is offering reward money for tips that lead to the arrest and conviction of a man who robbed a downtown Willoughby bank Monday afternoon. A black man wearing a navy blue hooded exercise suit walked into Fifth Third Bank at Mentor Avenue and Erie Street at 1:15 p.m. and demanded...

Gun Control Failure: British Residents Trained to Treat Gunshot Wounds

June 1, 2004 British Broadcasting Corp. Red Cross officials are providing first-aid training to British residents living in high gun-crime areas so that they can provide basic first aid at the scenes of shootings, the BBC reported June 1. Training has begun in parts of Manchester, including Moss Side and Hulme. According to Red Cross officials, the goal is to save lives by providing residents...

Woman abducted in Kroger parking lot

June 1, 2004 Toledo Blade Toledo police were investigating a report of a kidnapping and aggravated robbery of a woman from the Kroger parking lot at 833 West Alexis Rd. A 22-year-old woman told police she was in the parking lot at 8:45 p.m. Sunday when a man tapped on her window and told her she had a flat tire, according to police reports. When she got out of her car, he told her he had a gun...

FIVE: FirstMerit victim zone robbed again

Last week, a new policy of banning firearms in FirstMerit Bank began to be enforced. Signs were posted in several branches, with word that they will be posted in all Ohio branches. Unfortunately for residents in Pennsylvania, who have been able to bank at FirstMerit for several years without being confronted with discriminatory signs, we have learned the bank plans to post them there too. That...

Pizza Hut fires deliveryman for defending own life on company time

May 18, 2004 Indianapolis Star Deliveryman: 'It was my gun or his' Marion County prosecutors will decide if any charges will be filed against a pizza deliveryman who killed an armed man during an apparent robbery attempt Monday night on the city's Far Eastside. "I'm just satisfied it was him and not me," said Ronald B. Honeycutt, 38, of Carmel this morning. Click on the "Read More..." link below...

FirstMerit victim zone - 4th robbery in two weeks

Last week, a new policy of banning firearms in FirstMerit Bank began to be enforced. Signs were posted in several branches, with word that they will be posted in all Ohio branches. Unfortunately for residents in Pennsylvania, who have been able to bank at FirstMerit for several years without being confronted with discriminatory signs, we have learned the bank plans to post them there too. That...

OOPS! Brady Campaign touts study proving OUR point (again)

May 10, 2004 Jointogether.org Calif. Survey: One in Five Teens Live with Guns A survey by the University of California at Los Angeles finds that nearly 20 percent of 5,801 California adolescents polled live in homes were firearms are present, the Health Behavior News Service reported April 29. According to the survey, white, male Americans ages 14 to 17 living in higher-income or rural households...

TARTA’s illegal victim zone signs didn't stop this ''armed'' criminal

TARTA learns what Dairy Mart now knows...criminals don't care about weapons prohibitions. TARTA got a bonus - they learned that if all the firearms in the world magically disappeared, criminals would simply switch to items as innocent as a broomstick. May 17, 2004 Toledo Blade Man arrested in robbery of East Toledo carryout A man who, police say, menaced a carryout clerk with a broomstick during...

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