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Op-Ed: Columbine To Va. Tech To NIU – Gun-Free Zones Or Killing Fields?

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By John R. Lott, Jr.

As Northern Illinois University restarts classes this week, one thing is clear: Six minutes proved too long. It took six minutes before the police were able to enter the classroom that horrible Thursday, and in that short time five people were murdered, 16 wounded.

Six minutes is actually record-breaking speed for the police arriving at such an attack, but it was simply not fast enough. Still, the police were much faster than at the Virginia Tech attack last year.

The previous Thursday, five people were killed in the city council chambers in Kirkwood, Mo. There was even a police officer already there when the attack occurred.

But, as happens time after time in these attacks when uniformed police are there, the killers either wait for the police to leave the area or they are the first people killed. In Kirkwood, the police officer was killed immediately when the attack started. People cowered or were reduced to futilely throwing chairs at the killer.

Just like attacks last year at the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Neb., the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City and the recent attack at the Tinley Park Mall in Illinois, or all the public school attacks, they had one thing in common: They took place in “gun-free zones,” where private citizens were not allowed to carry their guns with them.

Ohio Primary Election Results – a good day for gun owners

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The results are in, and it was a very encouraging night for Ohio gun owners in the races for which Buckeye Firearms Association made endorsements and recommendations.

Overall, we are extremely pleased with the outcome of the primary contests we saw as important for Ohio gun owners.

As usual there were several examples which proved just how crucial pro-gun Ohioans’ involvement in their party primaries can be in nominating pro-gun candidates.

Mobility-Impaired Disabled Hunter Access

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By Larry S. Moore

The upland game rabbit season has been pretty tough on me this year. My oldest female Beagle, Lucky, is 14 and has not been able to hunt. She is just too slow in her old age. My male, Hank, has encountered some heart issues so I am not running him very much. He is 10 and I was really hoping for a couple more years in the field with him. Both dogs jump at the gates and bark to go with me. My wife says it is just pitiful to watch and listen to them whine as I leave. So I have taken just them on a couple of extra trips close to home. It wasn’t about bagging any rabbits but about them getting out. I am not sure if it helped them or just made them feel worse when I left them home the next week. It did my soul good to see them hunting again. However, I missed them even more the next week.

What do the beagles have to do with disabled hunter access? It is about as close as I can come to imagining what it must be like for the impaired hunter wanting to get into the field. Access is limited unless there is private land to hunt. Special hunts offered by National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) Wheelin’ Sportsmen or Safari Club International fill quickly, may be on dates that are not convenient or may require long drives to south-eastern Ohio. So the impaired hunter is left at home unable to enjoy the bounty and beauty of the Ohio outdoors.

Op-Ed: Guns Save Lives

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By John Stossel

It’s all too predictable. A day after a gunman killed six people and wounded 18 others at Northern Illinois University, The New York Times criticized the U.S. Interior Department for preparing to rethink its ban on guns in national parks.

The editorial board wants “the 51 senators who like the thought of guns in the parks — and everywhere else, it seems — to realize that the innocence of Americans is better protected by carefully controlling guns than it is by arming everyone to the teeth.”

As usual, the Times editors seem unaware of how silly their argument is.

Colorado CHL-holder Recalls Encounter With Church Gunman

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The story of concealed handgun license-holder Jeanne Assam’s brave actions to stop a murderous rampage killer in Colorado Springs, Colorado’s New Life Church won’t soon be forgotten. From CNSNews.com:

“She probably saved over 100 lives,” the Brady Boyd, the pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, said on Monday. The female guard, a church member dressed in plain clothes, killed the gunman after he opened fire at the mega-church. Boyd said she “rushed toward the attacker and took him down in the hallway” as he entered the building.

This armed citizen recently did an in-depth interview with FOX affiliate KVDR-TV in Denver. Following is a link to that informative, emotional interview.

Attorney General announces Fourth Quarter 2007 CHL statistics

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Recent improvements to law spark surge in demand for concealed handgun licenses

By Jim Irvine

Attorney General Marc Dann has released the concealed handgun license statistics for the fourth quarter of 2007. There were 5,058 regular licenses, and 22 temporary emergency licenses issued, bringing the total to 109,142 licenses issued to carry a concealed handgun. Nearly 22,000 law-abiding citizens obtained their CHL in 2007, a full 20% increase from the same period in 2006.

Every day, the law-abiding citizens who carry a gun prove the anti-gun side wrong. None of their predictions have come true. No increase in accidents, or kids finding guns, or blood in the streets. The release of more data reinforces that gun owners and concealed carry advocates have been saying for years. We are not the problem. And all the attention given to restricting our rights is energy that should be refocused on stopping criminals.

The normal pattern after the passing of a “shall issue” law is strong demand the first year, then a steady decline in demand over years two through five. Demand then levels off to a “normal” level.

Ohio is experiencing something significantly different. The trends for concealed carry licenses are increasing in year four. Three quarters in a row showed increased demand over the same quarter in the prior year. There was a whopping 18% increase in licenses issued in 2007 than in 2006. Fourth quarter numbers even show a 15% increase over the same period in 2005, the second year concealed carry was in effect. Demand in Ohio is not only steady, but increasing.

Toledo concealed handgun license-holder defends own life during robbery attempt

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By Chad D. Baus

The Toledo Blade is reporting that another Ohio CHL-holder is alive today because he had the means to protect himself when attacked.

The newspaper, which editorialized against concealed carry both before and after it became law (one editorial board member went so far as theorize on how he would disarm the entire American population), and which prohibits its newspaper carriers from exercising their right to self-defense even after several instances where employees suffered rape and or aggravated robbery, says nothing about whether or not the armed robber had a license to carry the firearm he used in the attempted robbery.

To my gun-owning Democrat friends: How could you vote for either one?

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By Chad D. Baus

I’ve spent the last few weeks examining the choices left on the GOP primary ballot. I thought on this Ohio Primary eve I would take a look the choices my pro-gun Democrat friends are facing.

In Ohio alone, approximately 1/2 million people have hunting and/ or concealed handgun licenses. More importantly, Ohio gun owners made up 27 percent of the total vote in Ohio in the year 2000, the year Al Gore lost his Presidential bid thanks in large part to the pro-gun vote.

With those kinds of numbers coming to the polls, it is easy to understand why Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama are busy offering phony appeals to gun owners leading up to crucial primary contests tomorrow in Ohio and Texas.

But the truth with both candidates is something far more sinister. The truth is that any Ohio Democrat gun owner who votes for Hillary or Barack might as well be voluntarily turning their guns in for destruction.

It really is ok to be liberal and support individual gun rights

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By John Salyers

Yes, really. Democrats throughout Ohio and across the country would be well advised to take a closer look at elected officials like Ohio’s Governor Ted Strickland and U.S Congressman Zack Space. These gentlemen are both true to the Democrat party and yet are unwavering in their support of protecting our individual right to bear arms. And believe it or not folks, it’s working for them.

These guys just plain get it, and all indicators thus far have shown that they sincerely believe the Second Amendment is part of the same Constitution they have sworn to support and defend. A quick search of this website shows several instances where they are clearly “sticking to their guns” on the issue.

Biased media annoyed that victims dare resist

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By Tim Inwood

I have had enough experience with the anti-gun /self-defense bias in the press to begin to wonder if there is something wrong with the water used at major journalism schools in this country – some toxic agent that it wipes out all logical function of the brain.

As I read “Use Of Deadly Force: Store Owners Fighting Back” by Brendan Keefe, an article done for WCPO Channel 9 (Cincinnati’s ABC affiliate), this notion was reinforced. The article complains that store owners were actually taking up arms to fight the criminals who robbed their shops. It went on to bemoan that Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters was letting this happen by not prosecuting the store owners, even when they chased down the criminal off property after the robbery.

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