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Columbus Alive: Gun rights activists take aim at Taft

9:02pm Tuesday, December 09, 2003
Published immediately prior to the Bexley 'Defense' Walk outside the Governor's Mansion, this story hasn't even begun to be dated. November 27, 2003 Columbus Alive OK, so Republican leaders are on top of preemptively striking down same-sex marriage and promoting an anti-abortion agenda (separation of church and state be damned). But on other issues that are important to conservative Ohioans, they...

Michigan media: ''CCW law looks like winner''

2:32pm Monday, December 08, 2003
Weapon carriers do little to alarm officials THE FLINT JOURNAL FIRST EDITION Sunday, December 07, 2003 By Ken Palmer JOURNAL STAFF WRITER GENESEE COUNTY - Some people who checked out clean for a concealed weapon gun permit are committing crimes, sometimes with the guns they were licensed to carry. But the number of violators has been so small - less than one-half of one percent - that even those...

Letters to the Editor: Governor gambles with Ohioans' lives

12:13pm Monday, December 08, 2003
December 7, 2003 Toledo Blade Governor gambles with Ohioans' lives Well, it seems Governor Taft just keeps pulling new surprises out of his bag of tricks. In his latest effort to ensure law-abiding citizens in Ohio remain at the mercy of criminals, the governor now wants a provision placed in concealed-carry legislation to require public access to the names, birth dates, and counties of residence...

Word for Word: Newark Advocate editors mirror Plain Dealer editorial

1:54pm Thursday, December 04, 2003
On November 21, the Gannett-owned Newark Advocate published an editorial praising Bob Taft for his latest opposition to House Bill 12. That editorial was published in the Lancaster Eagle Gazette (another Gannett paper) three days later , on November 24. Eagle-Gazette editors gave no credit to the editors of the Newark Advocate on their website - readers were left to assume editors in Lancaster...

Letter to the Editor: Citizens should be as protected as governor

10:11am Wednesday, December 03, 2003
December 03, 2003 Columbus Dispatch As I read the "Capital notes" column Nov. 25, regarding a protest march over the long delay of passage of a concealed-carry bill caused by our governor, I was struck by the irony of the closing paragraph, that the "protesters pose no problem" and the governor is "very well-protected." Too bad Gov. Bob Taft doesn’t think those who elected him deserve the same...

Letter to the Editor: No such thing as 'Right to Know'

10:04am Tuesday, December 02, 2003
Sensing that House Bill 12 conference committee members were closing in on a compromise that would put a bill on his desk in November, Governor Taft employed his allies in the liberal media to inject a new issue into the debate, one that he had not seen fit to raise as a concern at any point during his five years in office. Several of Ohio's most liberal editorial boards jumped at the chance to...

Gun permit applicants increasingly are women

8:55am Tuesday, December 02, 2003
December 2, 2003 The Tennessean Even after working several years as a prison guard, Twanda McCurry never felt the need to carry a gun for protection outside of work, and especially not after she went into a new business as an office manager at a bottling plant. Until about three weeks ago. That's when she decided to join the fast-growing number of Tennessee women who have permits to carry...

Ohio draws bead on bill similar to Michigan concealed-gun law

11:43am Monday, December 01, 2003
by James Drew Toledo Blade Columbus Bureau Chief December 1, 2003 COLUMBUS - Since the Michigan law that made it easier for citizens to carry concealed handguns took effect in July, 2001, the number of permit holders has nearly doubled and crime has dropped. Backers of a bill that would give Ohio a similar law say the result - more armed law-abiding citizens and lower crime - could happen in Ohio...

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