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Gun licenses safe choice

12:05am Monday, May 14, 2007
By Karl Spaulding When Florida liberalized its restrictive and disjointed system of concealed carry laws in 1987, many states followed suit. In each case, naysayers predicted everything from "blood in the streets" to "parking lot shootouts." Just as regularly, after each state changed the law to allow more law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns, the results were peacefully anticlimactic...

It's time for another Plain Dealer Pulitzer: Self-defense commentary continues

12:10am Tuesday, May 08, 2007
More to be learned from latest Regina Brett columns By Chad D. Baus In 2004, ultra-liberal Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz (wife of Sherrod Brown, the recently-elected anti-gun U.S. Senator from Ohio) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for commentary that, among other things, bashed Ohio CHL-holders as "Dirty Harry wannabe's". Schultz wrote the following commentary just days after Ohio...

''I Thought This Would Never Happen to Me''

12:10am Monday, May 07, 2007
Real-life lessons from real-life threats to a retired man’s life By Bob Harsanje I liked Skip from the first time we shook hands. He’s a not so very tall man, but sports a physique a 40 year old would pretend to not envy. There’s a friendly but knowing twinkle in his eye that tips you off he’s experienced life from many perspectives. You’re not going to fool Skip. He’s been around. He’s tough. He...

4 myths of gun control shredded

12:10am Friday, May 04, 2007
By Jay Ambrose If Seung-Hui Cho hadn't gotten his hands on two semiautomatic pistols, he wouldn't have been able to slay 32 students and others, say some gun-control advocates who really ought to learn about Andrew Kehoe, who didn't stop at 32. In the deadliest violence inside a school ever in America, Kehoe killed 45 people, mostly children, and guns had nothing to do with it. It was 1927 in the...

The most neglected part of self-defense training

12:10am Monday, April 23, 2007
By Ken Hanson Most self-defense advocates take training very seriously. We cover mindset, awareness, equipment, ammunition and scenarios in most any training. However, there is one component of concealed carry training that is completely ignored by most schools. This is unfortunate, as this one component is the one that is statistically most likely to result in the arrest of a concealed carry...

Knee-jerk reactions not the solution

12:15am Thursday, April 19, 2007
By Tim Inwood The sadness of Monday, April 16, 2007, will echo for some time. Our hearts and prayers continue to go out to the family and friends of those killed at Virginia Tech. What we do know is that the murderer was a 23 year old South Korean named Cho Seung-Hui. He was a resident alien who lived here for 14 years, and he went to Virginia Tech as a student. On Monday, April 16, filled with...

Education Guide Lesson #15: Ohio CHL-holders acting in self-defense

12:05am Monday, April 16, 2007
The Youngstown Vindicator is reporting that another Ohio concealed handgun license-holder has acted to defend himself from a dangerous armed criminal. From the story: A 55-year-old man thwarted a carjacking Tuesday morning after exchanging gunfire with the would-be thief. The victim told police he had pulled his vehicle into his Youngstown Road driveway about 12:45 a.m. when one of three men who...

Gun Owners of the World – Unite!

12:15am Friday, April 13, 2007
(This commentary has also been published at USConcealedCarry.com ) By Gerard Valentino The flap over Jim Zumbo’s comments about so-called assault weapons brought the rift among gun owners into the public spotlight. Although Zumbo apologized, his comments show that some gun owners, and advocacy groups, are content to fight their own battle against gun confiscation unaware of the danger that poses...

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