Hillary Clinton is the media’s definition of “pro-gun”?

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Big City Mayors continue to look for a scapegoat for their crime problem

By Brian S. Stewart

Hillary Clinton is doing her best to tiptoe around the gun issue during her attempts to win rural votes in Pennsylvania. But even a scaled-down-on-gun-control Hillary Clinton means calls for a renewed crackdown on interstate gun “trafficking” and a renewal of an assault weapons ban. In a recent speech on fighting crime she even noted “a direct correlation to illegal gun sales and homicides”. Yet in the eyes of the mainstream media she’s dodging the issue by not explicitly endorsing Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter’s array of new gun control laws.

The Boston Globe article has all sorts of little anti-gun sound bites that are spouted off as gospel. A Democratic consultant opines that Clinton doesn’t want to irritate her rural, blue collar constituency, “But I don’t know how you talk about homicide in Philadelphia without talking about guns.”

I do. Talk about violent crime and those that commit it. Talk about decaying inner cities and the conditions which perpetuate these cycles of violence. Talk about drugs and drug dealers. Talk about gangs. Even if you removed guns, which is impossible, these conditions would still exist. And violent criminals always find ways to be violent criminals.

Buckeye Firearms Association PAC strong and growing stronger

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By Jim Irvine

Buckeye Firearms Association filed our post-primary report with the Ohio Secretary of State recently. Thanks to you, we are bigger and stronger than we have ever been, and we are continuing to grow. Your support truly matters.

This report covered the period from February 14 to April 4, 2008. During this time we received $10,490 in donations. Most of this was attributable to our Dave Grossman fundraising event scheduled for September 27th. We also received donations from more than 20 other defenders and supporters. Every one counts.

City bans all retired officers from carrying; It’s time to make police chiefs stand for election

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By Gerard Valentino

West Covina, CA has banned legal concealed carry by retired law-enforcement officers within city limits. The City Council was aided in their decision to disarm law-enforcement officers by one of their own – current Chief of Police Frank Willis.

Angry retired officers are astonished a fellow officer would actively campaign to take away their right to self defense. They argue that law-enforcement officers have an increased risk of being attacked by people they have worked to put in jail and can act as a possible first line of defense.

Now a small number of law enforcement officers are feeling the same level of frustration that law abiding citizens have dealt with as police administrators lobby to take a way the right to use a concealed firearms for self-defense.

SB318: Sen. Keith Faber introduces “Firearms Modernization” (Concealed Carry Fix-it) Bill

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Senator Keith Faber (R-12) has introduced a bill that has been titled a Firearms Modernization bill. A more accurate description is that this is a “Concealed Carry Fix-It” bill that appears to attempt to address many of the issues Buckeye Firearms Association has been encouraging supporters to contact their elected officials about for some time now, along with a few other issues.

If the do-gooders really want to save the children, they should forget about guns and focus on doctors

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By Gerard Valentino & Chad D. Baus

Last month, actor Dennis Quaid took to the airwaves on 60 Minutes to speak out about a medical mistake that nearly took the life of his newborn twins. Quaid just can’t seem to understand why more people aren’t aware of the problem, even though he says 100,000 people are killed every year by medical mistakes (the number is probably quite a bit higher), and even though the medial journal Pediatrics reports that 1 in 15 hospitalized children are administered drugs improperly (540,000 times per year!). It is a problem which Quiad points out is “bigger than AIDS. It’s bigger than breast cancer. It’s bigger than automobile accidents.”

Perhaps the reason more people aren’t aware of this problem is because people like Dennis Quaid have a history of spending too much time ranting about issues that impact far fewer lives, sucking up available air time and distracting Americans from issues much more vital, such as the one he is now addressing.

You see, according to the NRA-ILA, Dennis Quaid is among a group of celebrities who has “lent their name and notoriety to anti-gun causes, speaking out for anti-gun legislation and providing a voice for anti-gun organizations.”

Ohio Wildlife Council Approves 2008-09 Hunting and Trapping Regulations

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Opportunities expand for deer hunters and fall turkey hunters

COLUMBUS, OH – September 1 will again kick off the state’s fall hunting seasons – with the opening of the squirrel-hunting season that runs through January 31 – under regulations approved Wednesday by the Ohio Wildlife Council.

Fall turkey hunters will enjoy expanded opportunities. They will be able to hunt the entire season, from October 11 through November 30, with a shotgun, muzzleloading shotgun, bow or crossbow. This new rule adds 35 days to the previous season for fall turkey gun hunting. Nine additional northeast Ohio counties will also be open for fall turkey hunting, bringing the total to 46 counties statewide.

Deer hunters can again buy additional antlerless deer permits at reduced prices for hunting in an urban zone, participating in a controlled hunt, or hunting during the September 27 to November 30 portion of the archery season. Deer hunters with antlerless permits can hunt in Zone C until December 7. Cost of the antlerless deer permit remains at $15.

UNANIMOUS: Ohio Senate Passes Castle Doctrine!

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In its sixth (and final!) hearing on Ohio’s Castle Doctrine legislation today, the Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee on Criminal Justice accepted yet another amended substitute SB184, passed the bill (Committee members Teresa Fedor and Shirley Smith – both Democrats – voted no, Senator Lance Mason, the third Democrat committee member, was absent).

Just a few hours later, the full Senate took up consideration of the bill. It received 31 yeas, 0 nays. There are 33 members in the Senate, but Sens. Gardner and Schuler were absent).

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