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Akron newspaper headline hides sad trend in city crime rate

4:01pm Tuesday, May 25, 2004

"FBI stats say Akron fairly safe - Violent crime less than in other cities" To read the headline, you'd never guess that violent crime jumped 7% in Akron in 2003, fueled by a 23% increase in rape, and 22% increase in aggravated assault (bucking a state-wide and national trend of falling rates). Upon passage of Ohio House Bill 12, Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic whined, "We took guns away from the...

Columbus Dispatch finally finds ''CCW legislation'' it likes, and it's D.O.A.

10:58pm Monday, May 24, 2004

May 24, 2004 Columbus Dispatch Editorial: Promote peace in parks Cities need right to stop carrying of guns onto playgrounds, ball fields The state’s wrongheaded new law that allows Ohioans to carry concealed handguns is especially onerous in its failure to put public parks and playgrounds on the list of places where packing heat is prohibited. Parks bring people together for many different...

Citizen goes for CCW walk on ''banned'' Toledo city property

3:41pm Monday, May 24, 2004

Chalk one up for fair and balanced reporting in Toledo... On Friday May 21, 13 Action News (ABC affiliate) provided an excellent look at that the City of Toledo's illegal efforts to restrict concealed carry, and violate Section 9 of House Bill 12. The report came in two parts - a 6:00 p.m. broadcast featured OFCC-supporter and Ohio Cconcealed handgun license (CHL)-holder Bruce Beatty on a walk...

ANOTHER VICTIM ZONE ROBBERY: Gunman robs Fifth Third bank

2:58pm Monday, May 24, 2004

This is the third bank (or bank customer) and fifth business on the Do Not Patronize While Armed list to have been robbed in the past two weeks. May 22, 2004 Marion Star MARION -- Officers are searching for a black male and female in connection with a Friday afternoon Fifth Third Bank armed robbery. The pair entered the bank from the parking lot at about 4 p.m. The man drew a weapon and demanded...

Card-Carrying Members

11:21am Monday, May 24, 2004

May 23, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine When the Middlefield Giant Eagle posted a "no concealed weapons" sign last month, Scott Weber threatened to take his $200-a-week grocery business to the competition. Weber, who owns The Gunrunner, a gun store and auction company in Burton, says he stowed his gun in his car and returned to the store to speak with the manager. After he stated his...

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70-year old woman assaulted/ carjacked in ''No-Weapons'' Kroger parking lot

8:16am Monday, May 24, 2004

Broad daylight in a Kroger victim zone... 5/22/04 WCPO.com & Cincinnati Enquirer Man Assaults 70-Year Old Woman, Steals Car A 70-year old Tri-state woman is recovering Saturday night after a man assaulted her in a supermarket parking lot as he stole her vehicle. Colerain Township police say Hazel Clemons was returning to her car at the Kroger on Colerain Avenue just before 1 p.m. Saturday. A...

Dairy Mart RAPE

7:36am Saturday, May 22, 2004

This tragic victimization brings to mind a whole host of troubling issues, including the dangerous prospect of being forced to disarm at posted businesses and other victim zones, restrictive car carry language (plain sight in a holster on the persons' person) in Ohio's new concealed carry law, which is much more difficult for a woman to comply with, and of course that CHLs are forbidden to adults...

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FBI BULLETIN: LOOKOUT FOR SUICIDE BOMBERS INSIDE THE U.S.

8:47am Friday, May 21, 2004

May 20, 2004 Drudge Report Warns Officials To Look for People Wearing Bulky Jackets on Warm Days; Smell of Chemicals; Trailing Wires from Jackets Bombers May Disguise Selves As Pregnant Women New York - The FBI has disseminated to 18,000 law enforcement agencies an intelligence bulletin advising police officials to be on the lookout for suicide bombers attempting to strike inside the US, TIME's...