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Bill to carry concealed weapons goes to Ohio Senate

10:05am Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Cincinnati's 9News (WCPO, a CBS affiliate), filed a report on the beginning of Senate consideration of HB12 today. It be be read, or viewed on a video file, by clicking here . The opening two sentences set the tone for the report: "A bill stating the right to carry concealed weapons has been passed in the Ohio House and will soon be voted on in the Ohio Senate. This means guns could be found in...

Ohio CCW Debate Loaded

8:52am Wednesday, April 30, 2003
As Ohio's race between the Senate and the OSC heats up, finally we see front page coverage in the Willoughby News-Herald, Sunday edition. While our own Jeff Garvas and the owner of (what is becoming Lake counties only public shooting range) Big Bore Specialties, Jon Stewart, stuck to the facts, the same old scare tactics and misguided information was quoted from the OHP. I feel the article was...

Letter to the Editor: Armed citizens more apt to help themselves

12:35pm Tuesday, April 29, 2003
Canal Winchester resident Steve Elsea has written an excellent letter to the editor about the need for concealed carry reform, which was published in Tuesday's Columbus Dispatch. Elsea points out how different things would be in Iraq if America's Second Amendment was law there, and steers back to how different things could be here in Ohio if our own state Constitution was recognized. Click here...

Letter to the Editor: Ohioan moves to Florida, exercises right to self-defense

4:38pm Friday, April 25, 2003
"In the March 18 issue of The Advocate, there was a letter addressing the proposed Ohio concealed weapons law. I no longer live in Ohio, having moved to Florida. I have a concealed weapons permit and do carry a weapon. It has been shown since the implementation of this law that the crime rate on senior citizens here in Florida has fallen. The Ohio Highway Patrol and the public need not get...

Letter to the Editor: ''Michigan takes more civilized view'' on CCW

3:52pm Friday, April 25, 2003
David Volk of Blissfield Michigan wrote a letter to the editor which appears in Friday's Toledo Blade. Volk says his state is more civilized because it recognizes his right to self-defense. Since we're Buckeye fans at OFCC PAC, it's hard to say this, but...David's right - Michigan (or West Virginia, or Pennsylvania, or Indiana, or Kentucky) IS a better place to live for law-abiding people who...

Letter to the Editor: ''Police cannot protect citizens''

12:56pm Friday, April 25, 2003
Medina resident John J. Myers has written an excellent letter to the editor" in the Cleveland Plain Dealer addressing Ohio's status as one of only 6 states that denies its citizens the right to defend themselves, family and home with a firearm. John is fed up with the fact that, according to that city's police chief, Medina has become ''easy pickings'' for armed robbers" . Paradoxically, a second...

John Lott in Dispatch: ''Concealed carry would benefit Ohio''

2:48pm Thursday, April 24, 2003
Dr. John R. Lott Jr., a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and the author of More Guns, Less Crime and The Bias Against Guns , continues to contribute to efforts to restore Ohioans' right to self-defense. His latest offering is an op-ed about Ohio's concealed carry reform debate, which has been published in the Columbus Dispatch (perhaps the Dispatch was feeling guilty after...

Dispatch Editorial: ''Arguments against gun restrictions carry no water''

11:47am Wednesday, April 23, 2003
The Columbus Dispatch's latest editorial on the concealed carry debate presents readers with an interesting problem: On one hand, the Dispatch editors admit there most certainly is a problem with the current law, which finds persons guilty until they prove themselves innocent. Yet on the other hand, they still claim two lower courts' rulings (which correctly found the law to be unconstitutional)...

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