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Guns Save Lives: Woman Survives Home Invasion, Attack

5:05am Friday, April 08, 2005
Cincinnati's WCPO.com is reporting that a local woman had to use a gun to defend herself after a neighbor she didn't know broke in and attacked her. From the story: It was a sudden surprise attack that Lea Murray says now makes her fearful of staying home alone at night. It happened as Lea was working on her computer in her trailer at the Lake Remington trailer park in Miami Township. "She slung...

Random acts of violence don't happen when expected. Are you ready?

5:00am Friday, April 08, 2005
One doesn't buy fire insurance because they expect their house to burn, car insurance because they expect to be in a collision, or life insurance because they expect to die young. So why do some say they only plan to exercise their right to bear arms for self-defense when they are expecting trouble? Every day in Ohio, we go to work, for a walk, or to their front door without expecting trouble...

Talk-show host says he shot 2 men while under siege

5:20am Saturday, April 02, 2005
The Columbus Dispatch has published more detailed information on CHL-holder Cornell McCleary, who shot two men Wednesday night after he was punched in the face and surrounded by a threatening group of about 10 men. From the story: None of the men appeared to be armed, but "there’s no doubt in my mind they would have killed somebody," said McCleary, 51, who runs a security company and hosts a...

Op-Ed: Women's self-defense class can save life

5:00am Friday, April 01, 2005
March 31, 2005 Cincinnati Enquirer Your voice: Susan Morgan I recently participated in a self-defense class for women offered by the Cincinnati police. It all started when I asked if they could recommend a course. They responded by asking if I would recruit some friends to be "guinea pigs" for a pilot program. Four course hours later I, and several of my friends, knew what to do, mentally and...

Columbus talk-show host working as guard shoots two

7:21am Thursday, March 31, 2005
The NBC4 Columbus is reporting that Columbus radio talk-show host Cornell McCleary shot two men, seriously injuring one of them, last night while working as a security guard at an East Side apartment complex. According to the report, police questioned McCleary, 51, then released him without filing charges. From the story: The shooting happened at about 6 p.m. at an apartment complex on Vineshire...

LTE: Incident exaggerated

3:25pm Wednesday, March 30, 2005
March 29, 2005 Dayton Daily News Re "Bullet-riddled block pleads for help," March 14: Only a city boy writer for the Dayton Daily News could: • Make a .22 rifle into an automatic weapon. • Pretend that school buses are targets. • Turn one .22 slug into a bullet-riddled neighborhood. • Make a .22 hole in a window look a foot wide. • Ignore countless shootings in Dayton, but denigrate Waynesville...

LTE: Gun-safety program should be mandatory

7:45am Tuesday, March 29, 2005
March 29, 2005 Columbus Dispatch It’s only a matter of time before we hear anti-gun pundits thumping their chests over the second-grader who found a handgun and brought it to school. Instead of answers to the problem, they’ll use this incident to further their agenda to ban more guns, as if that is prevention. What we need is statewide prevention through mandatory education. We will never be able...

Ross Co. Sheriff's deputies offer gun safety classes to school kids

12:30pm Saturday, March 26, 2005
The Chillicothe Gazette is reporting that Sgt. Dale Gillette and Lt. Don Dettillion of the Ross County Sheriff's Office have enlisted the help of the National Rifle Association's Eddie Eagle GunSafe® Program in an effort to educate children on what to do if they find a gun. From the story: Parents who think their children have no idea where their handguns, rifles and ammunition are hidden should...

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