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Dial 911 and your neighbor dies: Pt. II

10:52am Friday, April 25, 2003
Law enforcement bureaucrats like the OHP's Capt. John Born, and liberal media editorial writers like ThisWeek 's Vince Dunbar say we shouldn't defend ourselves, but rather need to "let the professionals do the threatening." Friday's Akron Beacon Journal contains yet another story about people who depended on the professionals for a neighbor's defense. Mother of four dead; 40 minute response time...

Two Ohio home invasions, two very different outcomes

2:35pm Wednesday, April 23, 2003
Two recent home invasions in Ohio had two very different outcomes for the victims, and for the perpetrators. In Case #1 , a 23-year-old Akron woman, Ms. Raysean Clark, was shot in the chest by Timothy D. Secession, after he forced his way into her home and began beating her. Clark is still slowly recovering. In Case #2 , a Columbus homeowner used his gun to stop David A. Griffin when he crashed...

Runner saves woman from assault

11:06am Monday, April 21, 2003
Gary Stewart, 36, of Green Township is winning praise for getting involved when he realized a man was viciously beating a woman in Miami Whitewater Forest Thursday morning. "His presence stopped the attack," said Sgt. Dale Reatherford, a Hamilton County Park District ranger. "He did detain the guy." Stewart, who is training for next month's Flying Pig Marathon, was running in the park shortly...

These Akron victims couldn't ''just drive away'' when attacked

10:25am Monday, April 21, 2003
The bureaucrats at the Ohio State Highway Patrol have repeatedly voiced opposition to any concealed carry reform law that allows persons to exercise their right to self-defense in an automobile. In opponent testimony before the Ohio House Criminal Justice committee, Capt. John Born argued in favor of keeping in place a ban on carrying loaded weapons in cars , stating that if a person is attacked...

Cincinnati Homicide Crisis

3:56pm Thursday, April 10, 2003
The plight of Cincinnatians continues, as law-abiding citizens there continue to suffer (with the rest of Ohio) from the denial of their self-defense rights. As we have previously reported, Cincinnatians are under a violent crime seige . Cincinnati has recorded two more homicides in the past two days -- bringing the total for the year to 23 and putting the city on a pace for a record 84 homicides...

Columbus women raped at workplaces, then kidnapped

4:26pm Thursday, April 03, 2003
Police believe the same man abducted two women from their shops in Worthington and Clintonville last month, raping them and forcing them to withdraw money from their banks. On March 7, at a shop near Frederick's, a man posing as a customer grabbed the shop owner and raped her at knifepoint inside the store, Columbus police said. He then forced her to drive him to a Downtown bank and withdraw $500...

Dispatch: Reported rapes soar in Columbus

8:03pm Monday, March 31, 2003
Columbus has the highest rate of reported rapes among the largest U.S. cities, federal crime statistics show. Data for the first half of 2002 -- the most recent available for cities nationwide -- as well as for all of 2001, show a rate here twice that of Los Angeles and four times as high as New York City. And Columbus is no standout among Ohio cities. Rates of reporting are higher in Cleveland,...

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