Guns in the News

Positive it'll never happen to you? Then don't get a CHL.

7:48am Thursday, October 21, 2004
You carry jumper cables, a spare tire, a first aid kit, extra blankets, flashlights and a fire extinguisher in your car. You wear your seatbelt. You buy homeowners insurance, medical insurance, vehicle insurance, uninsured motorists insurance, and emergency tow insurance. So why not carry the best-available tool of self-defense? These women were all lucky . Most abductees don't get to come home...

Attacks raise concerns on OU campus

8:32am Tuesday, October 19, 2004
October 14, 2004 Athens News A string of sexual assaults on campus in the last month has raised concerns over the safety of students, particularly females, on the streets after dark. According to three separate crime reports posted in residence halls and other student areas by the Ohio University Police Department, all of the females involved in the incidents were able to flee the scenes...

Police say [''no-guns''] gas station was robbed

7:24am Monday, October 18, 2004
On October 15, 2004, the Mansfield News Journal reported that Mansfield police are investigating an armed robbery at yet another business on OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed database . The newspaper report says a 26-year-old woman at BP Duke & Duchess, 595 S. Main St., told police a man walked into the store at 6:17 a.m. He pulled out a gun and demanded money, police said. The man fled the...

Plain Dealer's Clifton a part of Ohio Supreme Court PRIVACY Subcommittee

8:11am Sunday, October 17, 2004
The following information was submitted by a reader to the www.ohioccw.org website. It appears that Doug Clifton, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer is a member of the Privacy Subcommittee of the Supreme Court of Ohio. This is very disturbing given his actions violating the privacy of Northeast Ohio CCW holders. http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/ACTC/subcommittees/privacy/Privacy_Roster.pdf It is...

Letter-writer: Plain Dealer practices ''life threatening, dirty journalism''

4:29pm Friday, October 15, 2004
The following letter, addressed to the Cleveland Plain Dealer editor, was CC'd to OFCC. It is written in response to the Plain Dealer's latest abuse of a provision giving the media an exception to the privacy of concealed handgun license records. The Plain Dealer published still more names of Ohio CHL-holders in its October 6, 2004 edition. October 14, 2004 Dear Editor, I have probably bought my...

Op-Ed: The good guys carry guns, too

4:14pm Friday, October 15, 2004
October 9, 2004 The Roanoke (VA)Times by Ed Mitchell Jake is a good friend, and I'm sure he'll forgive me for not using his real name here. One of the reasons I like Jake so much is that he carries a gun. But you'd never know it. He's a big, friendly guy with a lot of friends, and he likes to help people. Jake's wife and two kids love him. From our long friendship, I know there's not a mean bone...

Letter to the Editor: Convoluted logic blames the gun, not the shooter

4:07pm Friday, October 15, 2004
October 15, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer In response to the Oct. 6 article "Gun used in shooting still exacting toll": As is typical for The Plain Dealer, a gun is blamed for the tragic shooting of a 10-year-old child. Not the 14-year-old who pointed the gun at the child and pulled the trigger, and not the criminal who dumped the gun behind a grocery store. Instead, the pistol, the manufacturer...

Has ridiculous ''plain sight'' provision claimed first victim?

2:12pm Wednesday, October 13, 2004
WHIOTV.com in Dayton is reporting today that a man with an Ohio concealed handgun license (CHL) accidentally shot himself while entering his vehicle. The news report states the incident happened when the man was delivering a meal to his elderly friend on Hoover Avenue in Dayton around noon on Tuesday. Police told WHIO-TV the man was carrying a two-shot Derringer in his coat pocket. Officers said...

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