Education

The True Source Of Random & Mass Shootings And Violence?

7:00am Friday, January 25, 2013
Why are politicians focusing on the tools mass murderers use instead of on how society may be creating its own monsters with the prevalent use of psychiatric and psychotropic drugs in children? Whether the mass murderers were on their medication at the time of their acts, or had stopped taking them, the following medical and psychiatric professionals believe the drugs are to blame, not the tools...

Op-Ed: Gun control has a clear record of failure

3:00pm Wednesday, January 23, 2013
by Tom Gresham In the wake of the horrific murders at the Sandy Hook school in Connecticut, America has been deluged with calls for ever-more-restrictive gun-control laws, and that's understandable. It's natural to think that's the solution if you don't know these measures have been tried and have always failed. We crave a solution so much that we'll ignore the record and keep repeating failed...

Montpelier, Ohio school board decision: Staff will be armed

7:00am Friday, January 11, 2013
More than two dozen northwest Ohio teachers sign up for free concealed carry class by Chad D. Baus The Bryan Times is reporting that staff members in Williams Co., Ohio's Montpelier Schools will soon be armed. From the article : The district's board of education voted Wednesday to adopt a policy allowing certain individuals to carry concealed firearms on the premises. The decision came in the...

Q&A on Armed Teacher Training Program

4:34pm Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Over 1,000 educators have applied for training! On December 20, 2012, Buckeye Firearms Foundation announced the Armed Teacher Training Program. The original intent was to simply offer free firearm training to 24 teachers in order to show that teachers could be an effective deterrent to mass murder in schools. In just three weeks, we received well over 1,000 requests for this training. So while...

NRA-certified instructor holds free concealed carry class for school employees

7:00am Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Editor's Note: The author's name is being withheld to protect the identities of the school officials involved in these classes. As a service to the schools in my community, I decided to offer an Ohio Concealed Carry Class to any local school employee free of charge. I did not know what to expect or what the response would be. I put the word out with a few phone calls to teachers I knew who had...

2013: The Year Ahead

3:00pm Friday, January 04, 2013
by Jim Irvine We begin a new year and a new legislative session with many unknowns. This has the potential to be the best and the worst year gun owners have had in a generation. It is possible that we enjoy one extreme at the state level while enduring the other at the federal level. We begin with Buckeye Firearms Foundation. For the first time, it is possible that our educational 501(c)(3) non-...

The Gun Control Debate: Assumption, Generalization, and Emotion

7:00am Thursday, January 03, 2013
by Hal Baker A sad reality of life is that those who are hell bent on destruction will find a way to destroy. As a result, we are left sitting in the fog of confusion that always follows tragedy. Beyond the fog, there is always an uproar from the media, politicians, and a portion the general populace crying for the government to do more to protect us. Following 9/11, fear drove us to seek out and...

Gun owners are like most other people - we just want a safe society

3:00pm Wednesday, January 02, 2013
by Jeff Thomas Like all of you, the tragic mass killing at a Connecticut school made my heart sink. What people who seek gun control do not seem to realize is that we, as gun owners, want a safe community to live in and raise our families, a safe work environment, and safe schools for our children to learn. We are not crazy people, as the anti-gun crowd portrays us. We are fathers, mothers, Scout...

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