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Written by Daniel White
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Friday, 05 March 2010 10:01 |
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Two Pentagon police officers were wounded yesterday when a man walked up to the entrance of the complex’s subway station, pulled a handgun out of his pocket, and began firing. Officers returned fire and killed the shooter. A motive for the shooting has not yet been determined.
Immediately, those in favor of gun control seized upon it as a prime example of why guns should be banned.
A posting on one policical website stated, "this story clearly denies the logic behind, 'Guns don’t kill people; people kill people.'" Except, of course, that it doesn't. The gun did not drag itself to the Pentagon and open fire while lying on its side. It required a person to make the decision to attempt to kill.
The follow up logic to support that assertion was that, "the man obviously wouldn’t have the means or resources to harm these police officers without the use of firearms." Really? I guess he didn't hear about the Wahiawa, Hawaii desk sergeant who narrowly avoided being stabbed by a piece of Plexiglas a few days ago. Not surprising since Plexiglas stabbings rarely make national news. For a little more mainstream weapon, we can look at Tennessee where about a week ago a Memphis police officer was attacked and stabbed multiple times when a suspect pulled out a knife.
Guns aren't the only tool that can be used for evil.
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Written by David Codrea
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 13:16 |
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Lyle Deniston of SCOTUSBLOG provides analysis:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed poised to require state and local governments to obey the Second Amendment guarantee of a personal right to a gun, but with perhaps considerable authority to regulate that right. The dominant sentiment on the Court was to extend the Amendment beyond the federal level, based on the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of “due process,” since doing so through another part of the 14th Amendment would raise too many questions about what other rights might emerge.
Includes link to oral arguments transcript, which should go live soon. Also see Part One: Chicago gun case argued before Supreme Court today
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Written by Daniel White
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 07:18 |
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Imagine a world where every town had completely different traffic laws. Drive into Parma and suddenly you're required to drive on the left side of the road. Enter Lakewood, and a red light means to go and a green light means stop. Head into Westlake and get arrested because white cars are illegal. That is the scenario facing gun owners if Cleveland wins its bid to overturn statewide preemption in Ohio.
When concealed carry first passed in Ohio back in 2004, there was a provision in the bill numbered "Section 9" that stated the intent of the legislature was for the gun laws enacted to be uniform throughout the state. This was to prevent a patchwork quilt of local gun laws where a constitutionally protected right, enumerated in both the U.S. and Ohio constitutions, was at the mercy the local politicians. With the stroke of a pen your gun rights could be invalidated.
Several Ohio cities, including the City Cleveland, flaunted that attempt so House Bill 347 was passed which enacted Ohio Revised Code 9.68, which reads...
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Written by Daniel White
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Monday, 01 March 2010 12:09 |
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Not that long ago, many citizens choosing to carry defensive arms were forced to do so illegally at their own peril. Gun control ran rampant in this country as a result of liberal viewpoints run amok in the sixties and seventies. As a result of the gun control experiment, crime ran rampant and the citizenry was easy pickings for the criminals who had no qualms about breaking the law to be armed.
In the eighties, that all began to turn around thanks to the efforts of thousands of gun rights activists all across the country. The direct result was that concealed carry laws began to pass in state after state, many of them "shall issue" laws requiring that citizens willing to jump through the legal hoops to get a carry permit be issued one regardless of what any local bureaucrat's opinion on armed citizens might be.
Ohio joined that group of states in 2004 and today only two states still completely ban concealed carry. Six years later and now approximately 200,000 Ohioans have been issued a concealed handgun license (CHL). A recent annual report from the Ohio Attorney General reveals that 2009 was a record breaking year for Ohio with 56,691 CHLs issued, beating the previous record of 45,497 the first year of the program.
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Written by Jeff Garvas
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Friday, 26 February 2010 15:19 |
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The Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray's office released the 2009 annual Concealed Hangun Law report today, and the numbers tell an interesting story. Ohioans have been flocking to Ohio Sheriff's offices obtaining new concealed handgun licenses, bringing the 2009 total licenses issued to 56,691. The number of licenses issued is the largest number ever issued and trumps the first (partial) year count of 45,497.
Ohio's total licensees as of the end of 2009 came in at 199,423 -- which means 28%, or more than a quater of those licensed in Ohio, just obtained their license within the last calendar year.
The numbers continue to impress: 86 of Ohio's 88 counties (less Marion and Jackson) saw a net increase in the number of licenses they issued between 2008 and 2009 calendar years. Auglaize (396%), Putnam (352%), Darke (208%), Vinton (195%) and Fayette (152%) topped the list while at least fifteen other counties saw 100% increases or more in the number of licenses issued between 2008 and 2009.
Read the Ohioans For Concealed Carry County-By-County annual comparison (pdf)
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