National Politics

Xenia 'Defense' Walker collects over 190,000 votes in US Senate primary

9:01am Thursday, March 04, 2004
On a day when Ohio's Republican US Senators (Mike DeWine and George Voinovich) were voting to renew the Clinton Gun Ban and to put an end to gun shows (votes which killed an strongly supported legislative attempt to protect gun manufacturers from frivolous lawsuits), Ohio's conservative Republican voters were at the polls, firing another shot across the bow of the state's liberal Republican...

Op-Ed: Senate bill can end misleading debate on guns

8:30am Thursday, March 04, 2004
Mar. 02, 2004 Philadelphia Enquirer by John R. Lott Jr. Gun-control advocates should fear the votes today in the Senate, but not for the reason that most people think. Some claim that letting the ban on some semiautomatic weapons expire will cause a surge of police killings and a rise in gun crimes. But in fact, letting the law expire will show the uselessness of gun-control regulations. A year...

Foxnews.com: Do Gun Control Activists Pad Gun Death Statistics?

3:39pm Wednesday, March 03, 2004
And yet Senators Voinovich and DeWine voted with these dishonest, misleading gun ban extremists to renew the 1992 Clinton Gun Ban... Foxnews.com March 3, 2004 Last week’s release of police documents and evidence on the April, 1999, Columbine school shootings has sparked many questions — not only on the specifics of Columbine but also on the general issue of guns. The answers are unsatisfying on...

What is the MATRIX? A privacy advocate's worst nightmare

7:37am Wednesday, February 04, 2004
Ohio joins multistate antiterror database Police can search billions of records; privacy invasion, some say Dayton Daily News February 04, 2004 COLUMBUS -- Despite privacy concerns, Ohio is one of six states signed up to use powerful computer technology that will allow police to search billions of records to root out criminal and terrorist suspects with lightning speed. MATRIX — Multistate Anti-...

U.S. Senator: Prosecute crime — not guns

1:05pm Saturday, January 31, 2004
January 29, 2004 Deseret News WASHINGTON — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch says new Justice Department figures support longtime GOP claims that the best way to fight violence with guns is not to outlaw the guns, but to prosecute criminals. Data released Wednesday showed that as federal prosecution of gun crimes increased 68 percent from three years ago under the Bush...

Zogby polls on voters' views on CCW & other firearm owners' rights

7:25am Monday, January 26, 2004
In a pre-9/11 poll, 67% of Ohioans said they preferred a CCW law that had training and background checks. Yet this isn't what we've been hearing from the gun ban lobby, now is it? After reading these results from Zogby, you'll have good reason to expect that 67% figure has gone up in Ohio, as the numbers have gone up nationwide. We certainly don't expect to be seeing these new findings in the...

ABC News and 20/20 engage in a bit of truth-telling on guns

11:46am Saturday, January 24, 2004
May wonders never cease. Nestled in amongst a 20/20 report on urban legends comes this little gem. So the question is, will ABC stop falsely reporting it? Lies, Myths and Downright Stupidity (John) Stossel's List of Popularly Reported Misconceptions Myth No. 3 — Guns are Bad America is notorious for its culture of gun violence. Guns sometimes do cause terrible harm, and many kids are killed every...

Taft Concealed Carry Veto-Threat Debacle Goes National

5:43am Friday, December 12, 2003
The Associated Press story announcing Bob Taft's latest veto threat has been picked up by media outlets nationwide over the past 24 hours. Since nearly 90% of the country already enjoy some form of concealed carry law, they'll probably be wondering what all the fuss us about. So are we. ABC News Atlanta Journal Constitution Boston Globe New York Times (National Briefing segment - link will likely...

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