Guns in the News

Columbus SWAT waits outside during robbery/ shooting

3:43pm Monday, April 26, 2004
This website has often shared stories which make the point how police officers are typically unable to prevent violent crimes, and are instead often relegated to showing up later for mop-up duty. But in this case, after receiving a tip, the Columbus SWAT team watched as two armed, masked robbers entered this restaurant (a MANDATED victim zone because they serve alcohol - not that the criminals...

Heads in the sand: Gun ban extremists pretend this doesn't happen

2:22pm Monday, April 26, 2004
To hear the gun ban extremists tell it, these things don't happen (especially not in small towns), and those who make preparations to defend themselves in case they do, are "buying into a culture of fear." Concealed handgun licenses are only now starting to be issued in the counties where these crimes occurred. Of course, the criminals that perpetrated them didn't worry about getting licenses...

Blade reporter takes CHL class: impressed with thoroughness

11:12am Monday, April 26, 2004
Another reporter shops a concealed-carry class, another excellent story on the professionalism and thoroughness of Ohio CCW training. April 25, 2004 Toledo Blade Pulling trigger: a chilling moment of truth "Classes miss no targets in training applicant to qualify to obtain a concealed weapons permit" Sobering. Reality check. Practice! I wrote those words in capital letters among many pages of...

Widow had good reason to apply for [carry license]

8:27am Sunday, April 25, 2004
For the most intelligent of citizens, it does not take being made a victim yourself to know it can happen to you. Mr. & Mrs. Krause took precautions, and it saved their lives in 1998. Read this article, and consider buying yourself some "self-defense insurance." April 25, 2004 Toledo Blade Mary Lou Krause, a 73-year-old widow who lives in Swanton Township, is among recent graduates of...

''Retail Rapist'' sought in greater Cincinnati

8:05am Sunday, April 25, 2004
Just what are businesses that choose to deny their employees and customers their right to self-defense trying to protect them from? Note that this violent criminal ignored the 150-year-old concealed carry ban while commiting his horrible acts. Of course, his defenseless victims were dutifully obeying the law. April 23, 2004 Cincinnati Post Search is on for rapist Piercing blue eyes. Disarming...

Letter to the Editor: Criminals have always had concealed carry

4:09pm Thursday, April 22, 2004
April 21, 2004 Newark Advocate All of this talk about concealed carry and businesses posting "no firearms" signs is foolishness if you use common sense. Unless these places of business have had metal detectors at their entry, there have been illegal concealed carries in their establishments unknown for years. Criminals have always had concealed carry. Carl W. Griffith Heath

Section 9 Op-Ed: Concealed guns could be trouble in city parks

4:05pm Thursday, April 22, 2004
The following editorial is being published in several Gannett News Service papers : April 21, 2004 Among the uncertainties surrounding the state's new concealed carry law is whether cities and other political subdivisions can prohibit weapons in public parks. City officials across the state say they would like to prohibit firearms in public areas for as far as the law will allow. "It's just...

Retired woman gets county's first license to carry a concealed gun

1:20pm Thursday, April 22, 2004
The Clark Co. Sheriff is one of many that have begun issuing licenses to qualified applicants. Note to the few hold-out Sheriffs refusing to perform their duty under the law - Sheriff Kelley and the many others sheriffs who are issuing CCW permits in accordance with the law are displaying the professionalism that you lack. Note to the gun ban lobby - it's not just middle-aged white males who...

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