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Buckeye Firearms Association Chairman Jim Irvine on Fox News Radio's "The Alan Colmes Show"

9:00pm Thursday, December 27, 2012
Buckeye Firearms Association Chairman Jim Irvine was a guest on Fox News Radio's "The Alan Colmes Show" on Thursday, December 27 at 10:15 p.m. "The Alan Colmes Show" is broadcast live and syndicated nationally by Fox News Radio. Click here to listen to the archived broadcast.

Op-Ed: We know how to stop school shootings

3:00pm Thursday, December 27, 2012
by Ann Coulter In the wake of a monstrous crime like a madman's mass murder of defenseless women and children at the Newtown, Conn., elementary school, the nation's attention is riveted on what could have been done to prevent such a massacre. Luckily, some years ago, two famed economists, William Landes at the University of Chicago and John Lott at Yale, conducted a massive study of multiple...

Around the country, gun owners stop potential mass murder; Here in Ohio, more violence in places where guns are banned

7:00am Thursday, December 27, 2012
by Chad D. Baus Nearly two weeks later, the nation is talking about the horrific deaths in a "gun-free" zone in Connecticut. In their arguments for the creation of more and more "no-guns" zones (more appropriately termed "victim zones"), gun rights opponents like to make claims such as college students having a "right to a gun-free" campus, and that the public has a "right to know" who has a gun...

Amidst Tragedy, Logic and Reason Must Prevail

3:00pm Wednesday, December 26, 2012
by Tim Inwood Like all of you I was reeling for days over the horror of what happened in Newtown, Connecticut. The victims for the most part were so young, so innocent. There is no reason to bother to try to rationalize what this lunatic did as it was evil and insane. As a parent my deepest sympathies and condolences go out to the families suffering at what should have been a happy time of year...

Moving forward: If more gun control laws are not the answer, what is?

7:00am Wednesday, December 26, 2012
by Jim Irvine The sorrow over the killing of 27 people, including 20 elementary school children, in Newtown, Connecticut has started to change to anger. Typically, pro-gun and anti-gun forces are digging in their heels for the fight ahead. But we owe it to those children and their families to learn from the failures that allowed so many innocent people to be slaughtered. President Obama stated...

Transcript of NRA Press Conference: "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."

1:17pm Friday, December 21, 2012
WAYNE LAPIERRE The National Rifle Association's 4 million mothers, fathers, sons and daughters join the nation in horror, outrage, grief and earnest prayer for the families of Newtown, Connecticut … who suffered such incomprehensible loss as a result of this unspeakable crime. Out of respect for those grieving families, and until the facts are known, the NRA has refrained from comment. While some...

Buckeye Firearms Association's Ken Hanson participates in ABC Town Hall debate on the Sandy Hook Shootings

6:59pm Thursday, December 20, 2012
The shooting at Sandy Hook has ignited a fierce discussion about guns and school safety. On Thursday evening, December 20, Columbus' ABC Channel 6 held a town hall to bring together advocates on both sides of the issue. In advance of the event, we were told this town hall might be picked up by as many as 100 stations around the country. Buckeye Firearms Association Legal Chair Ken Hanson and...

Op-Ed: Guns, Mental Illness and Newtown

7:00am Thursday, December 20, 2012
There were 18 random mass shootings in the 1980s, 54 in the 1990s, and 87 in the 2000s. by David Kopel Has the rate of random mass shootings in the United States increased? Over the past 30 years, the answer is definitely yes. It is also true that the total U.S. homicide rate has fallen by over half since 1980, and the gun homicide rate has fallen along with it. Today, Americans are safer from...

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