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Cincinnati.com online poll shows overwhelming support for pending gun rights legislation, opposition to gun control

by Chad D. Baus A Cincinnati.com interactive online poll , open since July, reveals overwhelming support for pending legislation that would improve or restore rights for gun owners in Ohio, while at the same time reveals massive opposition to proposed gun control.

Kentucky boy buys & brings gun to "no-guns" high school; Media fret about where he met the seller

by Chad D. Baus On Friday, October 11, a 15 year-old Kentucky boy brought a pistol to his high school. According to media reports, the boy never pulled the gun, but instead showed it to other students about two hours before Friday night's homecoming game. The boy's friends quickly informed their coaches and he surrendered the weapon and ammunition to school officials with no dispute. Several days...

Outrage(s) of the Week

Regular readers know that we report with great frequency on a veritable parade of ridiculous cases involving over-zealous school officials and their over-the-top enforcement of "zero-tolerance" rules. Well, here we go again. This week, we have not one, but four outrageous incidents of ridiculously enforced zero-tolerance policies to report. So, depending on your perspective, either the bar you...

Akron police chief: Background checks won't work to stop criminals, and "gun buybacks are a farce"

by Chad D. Baus Last month, lost in the news media's attempts to blame law-abiding gun owners (and a rifle that wasn't even used) for a crazed man's attack on the Washington Navy Yard, came a report from the City of Akron, where Police Chief James Nice offered a very public explanation of why background checks, no matter how stringent, are never going to prevent criminals from obtaining them...

Abusing Amendment I to attack Amendment II

by Tim Inwood On September 18th I was concerned Sarah Brady had briefly taken control of my local newspaper, considering the editorial cartoon and AP article that looked and sounded like propaganda straight from the Brady Campaign, an organization that never misses an opportunity to attack our Second Amendment rights. The article quoting rabid anti-gun politicians like Obama, Feinstein and anti-...

Portman To White House: U.S. Will Not Be Bound By U.N. Arms Trade Treaty

Washington, D.C., October 15, 2013 – Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman joined a bipartisan group of 50 U.S. Senators, including Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), in reiterating to President Obama that the Senate overwhelmingly opposes the ratification of the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) and will not be bound by its obligations. "The U.S. cannot and will...

The Tallest Tale: U.K. Crime is Down…NOT

by Paul Gallant, Sherry Gallant, Alan J. Chwick, andJoanne D. Eisen On September 10, 2013, Piers Morgan, a British journalist and TV host in America on CNN, interviewed Emily Miller, author of Emily Gets Her Gun...but Obama wants to take Yours , and Opinion Page Senior Editor for the Washington Times . Miller, a Washington D.C. resident, "gained national attention for her 'Emily Gets Her Gun'...

Virginia gubernatorial contest pits pro-gun Ken Cuccinelli against anti-gun Terry McAuliffe

by Jeff Knox Polls say that popular Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is trailing former Democrat National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe in his bid for Governor of Virginia. If the polls are correct – or even close to being correct – the blame must rest upon the professional political strategists in the Cuccinelli camp. The only poll that really matters happens on Election Day, of...

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