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Letter to the Editor: Gun bans don't ensure safety

6:36am Wednesday, December 29, 2004

December 28, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer Two Dec. 14 letters to the editor, under the headline "Bars are last place where guns should be allowed," call for a response. Rosie Craig wrote, "If anyone is really interested in saving lives, they should join the crusade for a comprehensive nationwide, public-health policy to prevent and reduce gun violence." Has Craig ever heard the term "dedicated...

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Off-duty officer's CCW foils bank robbery

6:31am Wednesday, December 29, 2004

On Christmas Day, the Toledo Blade reported that police are seeking information about two men who tried to rob the University of Toledo/Medical College of Ohio Hospitals credit union but were thwarted by an employee and an off-duty police officer. The masked suspects got out of their car about 9:30 a.m. Dec. 6 and approached the credit union, 5248 Hill Ave. An employee saw them as they were...

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Evaluation: First 180 days with Ohio's Concealed Carry Law

8:54pm Monday, December 27, 2004

The Ohio Attorney General's office has released data on the second three months of concealed handgun license issuance (July - Sept 2004). ----> Concealed Carry Licensure Statistics Report - 3rd Qtr 2004 (.pdf) OFCC's overall assessment: Issuance: In the first 180 days under the new law, 38,434 standard licenses, and 42 temporary emergency licenses were issued to Ohio residents. No matter what...

Criminals use Plain Dealer to pre-plan armed robbery

1:02pm Monday, December 27, 2004

This wasn't supposed to happen. Time and again, when told that publishing lists of gun owners (CHL-holders) would provide criminals lists of homes from which to steal guns, the media (led in many ways by Cleveland Plain Dealer editor Doug Clifton) responded by saying that criminals just weren't smart enough to utilize the newspaper to premeditate their crimes or select their targets. The Akron...

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Victim zone robbery: Another Family Dollar gets hit

11:56am Monday, December 27, 2004

The Akron Beacon Journal is reporting that a Family Dollar discount store was robbed Thursday night after a man posing as a customer said he had a gun and demanded cash, police said. The holdup occurred at the Family Dollar store in the Wooster-Hawkins Shopping Plaza in West Akron. A clerk reported that a man entered shortly after 9:30 p.m. and approached the counter as if he were going to buy a...

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Letter to the Editor: Columnist had biased gun information

11:44am Monday, December 27, 2004

December 27, 2004 Cincinnati Enquirer In regard to the "Your voice" column "Let's make peace one of our 'values,'" (Dec. 20): The Brady organization is probably the most untruthful anti-gun outfit extant. According to the U.S. government and the National Safety Council (which, by the way, closely monitors such things and keeps records), the rate of accidental deaths among children under 14 is the...

Letter to the Editor: Push to ban guns puts citizens, city at risk

10:11am Monday, December 27, 2004

December 24, 2004 Columbus Dispatch According to The Dispatch, motor vehicles kill more law-enforcement officers than guns (Dispatch article, Dec. 12). According to recent testimony by Columbus Police Lt. Stephen Schwab at a Columbus City Council hearing, the 9 mm handgun is the preferred weapon of criminals in Columbus. So what type of gun does Columbus City Councilman Michael Mentel want to ban...

Ohio Concealed Carry ranked as top state-wide story of 2004

7:49am Sunday, December 26, 2004

It got beat out by two national stories in the overall ranking (the Presidential election took two slots and the capture of Columbus "sniper" Charles McCoy Jr. in Las Vegas took third), but passage of Ohio Concealed Carry was the top Ohio-only story in 2004, and ranked an impressive fourth on the list of the 10 most memorable stories of the year. The stories were ranked by Ohio Associated Press...