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Op-Ed: Second Amendment Freedoms Aided the Civil Rights Movement

12:05am Thursday, February 08, 2007
February 6, 2007 By Ken Blackwell Townhall.com Prominent and indispensable among our rights is the "right of the people to keep and bear arms." Second Amendment rights, never to be infringed, were posited by our nation’s founders as among the most essential tenets of the free and just republic they sought to establish. The empowering freedom of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is...

WDTN's ''Getting the guns'' far short of complete story

12:10am Tuesday, February 06, 2007
The following comments were submitted by Buckeye Firearms Association's Larry S. Moore to Dayton's WDTN News 2, in response to a news investigation on Dayton's problem with gun violence. The entire TV broadcast can be viewed by clicking here . Overall, your story was well done. I do, however, have several concerns. First, let's call Dayton's problem what it is....a crime problem...an out of...

Editorial analysis: New York Sun logic vs. Toledo Blade emotion

12:05am Tuesday, February 06, 2007
By Chad D. Baus Anti-gunners have been trying to make much of late out of a series of stories published last week by the Florida Sun-Sentinel, which revealed that among those who have been issued Florida CCW licenses, 1,400 were people who pleaded guilty or no contest to felonies but qualified because of a loophole in the law, 216 were people with outstanding warrants, 128 were people with active...

Where's the outrage about nutty anti-gun reporting?

12:10am Thursday, February 01, 2007
By Chad D. Baus A recent op-ed from Philadephia Inquirer columnist Karen Heller, entitled "Where's the outrage about gun violence?" has me asking a few questions of my own: Where is the outrage about nutty anti-gun reporting? How can so many people who shovel provably false statements on their readers keep their jobs? And was columnist Karen Heller some type of Freudian pen name playing off of...

Op-ed: Gay rights, gun rights cross here

12:05am Friday, January 26, 2007
Editor's Note: Self-described "gun bigot" Roberta de Boer accepted an invitation to a Toledo firing range. She may not have come away a convert (yet?), but personal interactions like these with uninformed journalists are important, and we hope they occur more in the future. January 21, 2007 By Roberta de Boer We'd been shooting for a while by the time the amiable chatting started up. This was...

Did media list of gun owners put these 20 guns on the street?

12:10am Tuesday, January 23, 2007
By Chad D. Baus The Toledo Blade is reporting that detectives for the Lucas County Sheriff's office are searching for the person or people who took a safe containing about 20 weapons last week from a Spencer Township home. From the story: Sheriff’s deputies were called to the home of Keith and Mary Tucker at 9627 Dorr St. about 12:20 p.m. Thursday on a report of a residential burglary. The...

School Shootings: You can't sterilize the world

12:10am Monday, January 22, 2007
Article republished with permission. January 16, 2007 PoliceOne.com By Paul Markel Paul Markel is a police officer in Ohio and a member of the Police Officers Safety Association (POSA) Board of Advisors. His book, Have Passport, Will Travel, a "real-world" guide to dignitary protection, is available at amazon.com. Nobody likes a Monday morning quarterback. I know I don't. However, sometimes we...

Blame criminals, not the guns that stop them

12:05am Monday, January 22, 2007
The following was submitted to this website as News Commentary. If you are a writer and have material you would like to be considered for publication, please use the SUBMIT News feature. The link can always be found in the top-left info block on the homepage. By Michael A. Kotch Re: the Dec. 27 commentary, "Too many weapons: Control guns to stop the tide of death" , by John D. Kelly IV: Dr. Kelly...

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