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Robbery attempt thwarted by homeowner

7:31am Wednesday, October 13, 2004
October 11, 2004 Jackson Co. (OH) Times-Journal A robbery attempt, committed on Riegel Ridge Road in Oak Hill, was aborted, Tuesday, after the homeowner fired a gun on one of the intruders. Upon arriving at the scene, the officer checked and cleared the house and then went to the garage. He observed that the garage door had been kicked several times and the window, of the door, had been knocked...

Newsweek columnist learns how to love handguns

7:17am Thursday, October 07, 2004
October 4, 2004 Newsweek Firing Line - Our liberal columnist learns how to stop worrying—and love handguns By Gersh Kuntzman I had just heard the news last week that the House had voted to repeal Washington, D.C.’s strict ban on handguns, so I did what any self-respecting, gun-hating liberal New York Jewish journalist would do: I went to the nearest rifle range to blast some lead. This would not...

Newspaper: Firearm fever in Russia

6:31am Friday, October 01, 2004
September 16, 2004 Pravda After the recent terrorist act in Beslan, Russians began purchasing legal means of self-defense. Some even address direct letters to different law-enforcement agencies across country with a plea to authorize sales of hunting rifles and self-defense firearms. State Duma plans to adopt certain amendments by the end of this month, aimed at restricting the overall turnover...

Illinois Capitol Murder Proves Gun Laws Do Not Stop Killers

3:56pm Tuesday, September 21, 2004
September 21, 2004 Monday's brutal murder of an unarmed Illinois Capitol security officer by a shotgun-wielding killer proves that restrictive gun laws like those in the Prairie State cannot stop determined criminals, and never have, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said today. "If the Draconian gun laws in Illinois worked," said CCRKBA Executive Director Joe...

DDN: Woman uses BB gun to scare off intruders

5:02pm Sunday, September 12, 2004
The Dayton Daily News is reporting today that a 23-year-old woman used a BB gun to scare would-be burglars away from her Bath Twp. farm house last Thursday. The newspaper states that "Jessica Shafford said she was reading poetry at 2:30 p.m....when two men pulled up to the property. One of the men went to the rear of the house and began to remove a screen window." Shafford told the DDN she got...

Editorial: Time to start teaching gun safety in schools

9:28am Thursday, September 09, 2004
September 7, 2004 St. Paul Pioneer Press by Mark Yost As the rest of Minnesota's kids head back to school today, they'll participate in a wide-ranging curriculum that will readily teach them how to swim, how to drive, how to safely handle potent chemicals, how to balance their checkbook, even how to conjugate verbs in a dead language. What it won't teach them is what to do if they ever come...

Another DDN employee victimized in a gun crime

10:57pm Tuesday, September 07, 2004
September 6, 2004 Dayton Daily News Senseless shootings kill 2 bystanders DAYTON | — Derek Ali, a well-known community figure and Dayton Daily News reporter, was killed Sunday morning pushing a woman away from gunfire at a Lakeridge Court party. Mr. Ali, 47, had been working as a disc jockey at the private party and was moving his DJ equipment to his car at about 1 a.m. A group of men denied...

Workplace victim zone: Cincy Kmart shooting leaves 2 dead

3:23pm Wednesday, August 25, 2004
August 25, 2004 Associated Press Cincinnati - A man opened fire at a suburban Kmart, killing an employee and injuring a customer before fatally shooting himself, authorities said. The shootings occurred after an altercation broke out about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in a Kmart in Colerain Township. Hamilton County sheriff's spokesman Steve Barnett said the gunman shot the store employee, 22-year-old Paul...

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