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Written by Jeff Garvas
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Monday, 14 August 2006 08:04 |
Very few readers of this website will be surprised to hear that very few of the licenses issued to carry a concealed handgun have been revoked. We've known this would be the case and it has proven to be the case every time the Attorney General's office releases its annual report on concealed carry. Over the weekend, the Associated Press wrote a story about it and newspapers across the State of Ohio have picked it up. This year, more than half of the revocations statewide came from Cuyahoga County after an instructor's method of teaching the live fire course was determined to be unacceptable.
Statistics from the article back up the claim:
In 2004, when the concealed carry law took effect, 45,497 permits were issued, 78 suspended and 42 revoked.
In 2005, 22,487 permits were issued, 219 suspended and 75 revoked.
In the first three months of 2006, 5,546 permits were issued, 94 suspended and 100 revoked.
These suspension and revocation numbers pale in comparison to the percentage of driver's licenses suspended or revoked in the same time frames, but critics and supporters of the law alike had something to say about the low numbers.
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Written by Daniel White
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Monday, 14 August 2006 05:35 |
If we could just ban guns, life would be Utopia, right? That's what the gun grabbers would have you believe. Get rid of the guns and all violent crime will be gone.
Tell that to Great Britain. Handguns were banned in 1998 in an effort to reduce violence. Two years later, handgun crime was up 40% as criminals no longer had to fear their victims being armed unless they saw a long gun.
Soon, more and more restrictions followed until not only were all handguns banned, but very tight restrictions were in place on all firearms and self-defense in and of itself became a punishable crime.
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Written by Mike Kinsey
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Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:24 |
When readers of this site see the words Columbus and Ban in the same sentence, they most likely think of unnecessary laws prohibiting firearms based on their appearance rather than function. The Columbus Assault Weapons Ban was proposed by anti-gun advocates to supposedly make the citys streets safer. Those laws have proven to be ineffectual.
How could Columbus decrease its crime rate? Appropriate sentences for criminals would be a logical start. The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that Larry Laury, 25, was sentenced to only nine years in prison by Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Angela White after admitting to holding seven people at gunpoint in an apartment on October 25. His participation in this felonious act resulted in the death of one of his accomplices. Appropriately, Laury was originally charged with murder. That charge was dropped in exchange for his plea of guilty to four counts of aggravated robbery.
If Laury were to serve his entire sentence (which is rare these days) he would be back on the streets only nine years after terrorizing seven people at gunpoint and being responsible for murder.
Our local, state, and federal representatives need to realize that crime can not be prevented by inconveniencing the law-abiding with one more regulation the criminal will continue to ignore. The only way Columbus can protect its citizens is by punishing a murderer with a sentence appropriate for murder.
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Written by Jeff Garvas
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Wednesday, 09 August 2006 10:32 |
Thanks to Dan Sayers dashcam video that his attorney received from the prosecutor of the incident is now published below.
The video itself is suspect due to apparent editing. Moments into the response the responding vehicle siren stops, the tape jumps, the time stamp increments by 20-30 seconds, and the siren starts over again at an intersection. The engine is heard at high RPM while acceleration from a slower speed is apparent. What transpired during these crucial seconds is unknown, and a replacement copy of the dashcam tape is being sought.
While we do not yet have the 911 transcript or audio, we hope to soon be able to publish both that and the Sunoco security camera footage. Dan Sayers' attorney has implied those two pieces of evidence support Dan Sayers recollection of the events.
Ohioans For Concealed Carry has performed minor editing of the dashcam video, including removing audio that revealed Sayer's personal identifying information, and applying the red overlay that remains over the police cruiser's hood for the duration of the encounter. No other modifications to the video were made by OFCC.
The dashcam video, and a collection of all the Sayers legal documents and stories will be maintained at this address: http://www.OhioCCW.org/sayers |
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Written by Mike Kinsey
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Wednesday, 09 August 2006 05:03 |
Nearly 75,000 Ohio citizens have received a Concealed Handgun License (CHL) since Shall Issue CCW became law in 2004. All have done so after mandatory firearm training and accepting the legal and moral responsibilities of being licensed. However, the personal reasons why one chooses to pursue a CHL may vary. Some are a likely target for criminals due to their line of work. Some recognize the innate right to self defense guaranteed by the U.S. and Ohio Constitutions. For me, being recently married made me realize that I wanted to do everything in my power to protect those that I love. One brave woman in Middletown, Ohio has shared her reasons for seeking a license to carry a concealed handgun in an August 9th article in The Cincinnati Enquirer entitled Victim Standing her Ground".
When Cathy Lindsey's youngest son handed her a .380-caliber pistol a year ago, he gave her a word of advice.
"It boils down to one thing," said Charlie Keith, an Army veteran who served two tours in Iraq. "Kill or be killed. You have to fight for your life."
Twenty-three years after Lindsey was bound, tortured and raped by three men in her home while her three young children huddled behind a dresser, the 48-year-old grandmother is planning to do just that.
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