Ohio Politics

Lessons from another school shooting

by Jim Irvine
7:00am Monday, December 23, 2013
While we still don't know all the details, it is possible to learn from early reports on a school shooting near Denver. We can look at what worked and what did not. Those who care to make schools safer will choose to copy aspects that worked. Unfortunately our recent survey shows that many school officials have chosen to ignore the life-saving lessons and leave untold thousands of children at...

Washington Post: "In Ohio, momentum favors gun rights movement"

7:00am Wednesday, December 18, 2013
by Chad D. Baus An article published in our nation's capital on December 11 documents the progress made by gun rights activists in Ohio in 2013. From the Washington Post : This year, more than 82,000 new concealed-carry weapons licenses were issued in Ohio through September — more than any full year since the system was enacted in 2004... ...Ohio is not alone: By the end of October, 11 states had...

Op-Ed: Predictions by anti-gun crowd rarely come true

3:00pm Thursday, December 12, 2013
by Mike McCoy Law-abiding citizens are likely to soon see several improvements to Ohio’s concealed carry law. In a bipartisan vote Tuesday, the Policy and Legislative Oversight Committee of the Ohio House of Representatives voted to send House Bill 203 to the full House. This was an important step in moving this legislation to passage. ...What the misnamed stand your ground provision actually...

School safety – what teachers tell us about your kid’s school

9:40am Thursday, December 12, 2013
by Jim Irvine Saturday, December 14, 2013 marks the one year anniversary since a coward murdered his mother, stole her gun and her car, then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where he brutally murdered his mother, six school employees and 20 innocent children before committing suicide. Buckeye Firearms Foundation recently surveyed school employees to find out what has...

Op-Ed: Women the 'Holy Grail' of gun rights movement

3:00pm Wednesday, December 11, 2013
by Raquel Okyay Women seeking to arm themselves and their daughters are figuring out that guns are not 'taboo' but a powerful means of protection. "Women are the holy grail of the Second Amendment movement," said Skip Coryell nationally recognized firearm expert and author of the newly released The Shadow Militia. The Second Amendment will stand or fall depending on the way women vote, he said. "...

Survey shows nearly two dozen Ohio schools authorize carrying of guns to improve kids' safety

9:41am Wednesday, December 11, 2013
by Jim Irvine Saturday, December 14, 2013 marks the one year anniversary since a coward murdered his mother, stole her gun and her car, then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. There he broke a window through which he entered the school, murdered several administrators then walked down the hallway and shot teachers before killing a classroom full of children. All told...

U.S. Rep. Bob Latta Introduces New Sportsmen's Act, HR 3590

3:00pm Monday, December 09, 2013
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industries, today noted that Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus (CSC) Co-Chair Bob Latta (R-Ohio) has introduced HR 3590, a new bipartisan version of the Sportsmen's Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act of 2013. Earlier this year, Latta and...

That Odd Duck, Ohio: Self-Defense as an Affirmative Defense (Kind Of)

7:00am Monday, December 09, 2013
by Andrew Branca Of the 50 states in the US, 49 of them require the State to disprove a defendant's claim of self-defense, beyond a reasonable doubt. Ohio, on the other hand, requires that the defendant prove self-defense by a preponderance of the evidence. Why is Ohio Such an Odd Duck on the Burden of Proof for Self-defense? To understand this curiosity it is necessary to cover a little history...

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