Guns in the News

Two Ohio newspapers issue editorials condemning publishing of NY gun owners' names and addresses

7:00am Tuesday, January 08, 2013
by Chad D. Baus In the wake of the horrific mass murder in at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut last month, one New York newspaper, Gannett Company's The Journal News of White Plains, N.Y., decided to punish people who had nothing to do with the crime by publishing an interactive map with the names and addresses of handgun permit owners in New York's Westchester and Rockland counties. When...

Op-ed: The Left Bullies the NRA

3:00pm Monday, January 07, 2013
by Ben Shapiro On Christmas Eve, seven people were shot in the city of Chicago. The media made little mention of the shootings, since they're now routine in Chicago -- the city has seen some 500 shootings in 2012 alone. The vast majority of the shooters are black, and the vast majority of the victims are black. Many of the victims are under the age of 18: Anton Sanders, 15, shot on Jan. 20;...

Headline: White House prepares to defeat NRA with speedy legislation

7:00am Monday, January 07, 2013
"I believe in the Second Amendment. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won"t take your handgun away... I am not going to take your guns away. So if you want to find an excuse not to vote for me, don't use that one because it just ain't true. It ain't true." - Barack Obama, 2008 "As a result of direct conversations that I've had with Barack Obama, if you are a...

The Gun Control Debate: Assumption, Generalization, and Emotion

7:00am Thursday, January 03, 2013
by Hal Baker A sad reality of life is that those who are hell bent on destruction will find a way to destroy. As a result, we are left sitting in the fog of confusion that always follows tragedy. Beyond the fog, there is always an uproar from the media, politicians, and a portion the general populace crying for the government to do more to protect us. Following 9/11, fear drove us to seek out and...

Armed Teachers: Over 600 Have Applied for Training

7:00am Wednesday, January 02, 2013
After the mass murder at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school, Buckeye Firearms Foundation announced that they would provide free firearms training to teachers and school administrative staff . So far, the Armed Teacher Training Program has attracted more than 600 applicants from all parts of Ohio and several from other states, including Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana,...

2012 - The Year In Review

7:00am Monday, December 31, 2012
By Chad D. Baus While there is far too much to cover in a single article, we reflect on some of the important events of 2012. January: The year begins with continued debate over whether or not Canton police officer Daniel Harless, who was caught on dash-cam video verbally assaulting and threatening to "execute" a concealed handgun licensee, deserved to be fired. Harless is terminated, and the...

Who Will Stand For Our Children? Voluntary Armed Parents in Schools

3:00pm Friday, December 28, 2012
by Ron Borsch INTRODUCTION AND DEFINING THE PROBLEM It is important for us to first understand the "Rapid Mass Murder"© problem, the most common motivation of these active killers, how we can reduce the copycat effect, ( http://www.lorencoleman.com/copycateffect/ ), as well as the number of these incidents and then look at the "Final Option" of armed intervention. We hope to at least initiate all...

OOPS: In rant calling for magazine ban, NBC's David Gregory demonstrates why gun control laws don't work

7:00am Friday, December 28, 2012
by Chad D. Baus In the days since the latest horrific mass murder in a "no-guns" zone, the media onslaught has been relentless. Never mind that Connecticut already has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country, including an "assault" weapons ban - the media say more such laws are what is needed. Never mind that guns were banned in the school where the attack took place - the media say...

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